FIFTH+GRADE

[|State Visual Arts Core for Fifth Grade]
 * Week of February 15th-22nd-** Birds eye view of a city


 * Week of February 8th-**Start linear perspective


 * Week of Feburary 1st-** Op art


 * Week of January 19th-** Finishing colonial block printing


 * Week of January 4th-** We will be talking about printing presses and doing some colonial block printing. The class should be prepared with 5 quotes from American history that they can print.


 * Week of December 7-14th** We will be making Christmas tessellations. This can be connected to the math curriculum.


 * Week of November 30th-** We will be finishing our colonial quilts.


 * Week of November 15th-** We will be making a colonial quilt. Each student will be making a symmetrical quilt block to put together with the other classes. They will need a ruler and a pencil.


 * Week of November 9th**- We will be talking about the traveling sketchbooks as week as doing an art appreciation activity.


 * Week of November 1st-** We will be making a volcanic landscape with crayons and watercolors.


 * Week of October 19th-26th** We will be creating our colonial self portraits using our silhouettes. This will be a two-week project.


 * Week of October 12th-** We will be making native american pumpkins.
 * Week of September 28th-October 6th-** We will be learning about surrealist artist Renee Magritte and creating an "eye for magritte"
 * Week of September 21st-** We will be doing our watercolor fruits to go with our poems.


 * Week of September 14th-** We will be practicing observational drawing by drawing our shoes with pencil. The art boards will be used in class.

We will be making Inca masks using principles of symmetry. Students will need glue and scissors.
 * Week of September 7th-**

Art Procedures powerpoint- Discussion on lines- geometric line patterns on portfolios- finish in free time examples:
 * Week of August 31st-**

Week of August 31st- Contour lines, organic and geometric lines, contour line drawings