K-8 Visual Art
Specialist Subject ClasesExplore Visual Arts at Blue Oak School
Transitional Kindergarten Visual Art
- Color: Identifies and uses primary and secondary colors
- Creating: Engages in creative work in a self directed and engaging way
- Expressing: Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork
- Connecting: Recognizes the process and purpose of making art
- Tools and media: Understands how to use art tools and media for appropriate purpose
Kindergarten Visual Art
- Color: Identifies and uses primary and secondary colors
- Creating: Engages in creative work in a self directed and engaging way
- Expressing: Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork
- Connecting: Recognizes the process and purpose of making art
- Tools and media: Understands how to use art tools and media for appropriate purpose
First Grade Visual Art
- Color: Understands and uses primary colors to make secondary colors
- Observation: Begins to use observation in creative process
- Creating: Engages in creative work in a self directed and collaborative way
- Expression: Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork; Begins to discuss and reflect with peers about artwork
- Connecting: Identifies and communicates work of art that connects to feelings, ideas and personal experiences
- Tools and media: Explores the use of tools and media to create works of art; Uses art vocabulary to describe creative process
Second Grade Visual Art
- Understands relationships between primary and secondary colors; Identifies and understands complementary, contrasting, warm and cool colors
- Sustains observation for longer periods of concentration and connects what they see with what they create
- Self directs creative process, perseveres and explores solutions to art problems
- Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork; Begins to discuss and reflect with peers about creative process
- Identifies and communicates work of art that connects to personal life and community
- Explores use of tools and media in a variety of ways to create works of art
- Uses art vocabulary to describe creative process
- Begins to demonstrate safe and appropriates uses for art tools
Third Grade Visual Art
- Learns and utilizes various color schemes to create value, shade and tints
- Demonstrates an understanding of the elements and principles of design
- Demonstrates patience and understanding for the process of observing and creating
- Self directs creative process, perseveres and explores solutions to art problems
- Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork; participates and is open to peer feedback about creative process
- Identifies and compares work of art that connects to personal life, other cultures, time/place and community
- Demonstrates an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials and tools for a variety of artistic process
Fourth Grade Visual Art
- Practices color mixing and relationships of color
- Demonstrates increased understanding for the implementation of elements and principles in artwork
- Demonstrates increased stamina and understanding for the process of observing and creating
- Self directs creative process, perseveres and explores solutions to art problems
- Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork; participates and is open to peer feedback about creative process
- Identifies and compares work of art that connects to personal life, other cultures, time/place and community
- Demonstrates an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials and tools for a variety of artistic process
- Assesses, reworks art and prepares it for presentation
Fifth Grade Visual Art
- Implements monochromatic, analogous colors schemes
- Instinctively applies the elements and principles of design to artwork
- Instinctively applies observational skills in creative process
- Sets goals, combines ideas to create artwork that is both meaningful, innovative and with purpose.
- Brainstorms different approaches to a creative art or design problem
- Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork. Collaborates with others on feedback and critique
- Through observation, gathers information about other cultures, time, and place
- Demonstrates quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials and tools. Applies learned vocabulary in creating a work of art
- Develops safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork
Sixth Grade Visual Art
- Applies monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, warm, and cool colors
- Intuitively applies elements and principles
- Uses observation to create, inspire and understand others and their own artwork
- Sets goals and combines ideas to create artwork that is meaningful and innovative
- Explores creative solutions to an assignment
- Uses constructive feedback and critique to engage in the artistic process
- Demonstrates an understanding and reflection of artwork.
- Shows awareness and perception of culture and how it reflects in works of art
- Demonstrates quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials and tools.
- Applies learned vocabulary in creating a work of art
- Analyzes and selects artistic work for presentation discussion/critique
Seventh Grade Visual Art
- Implements color through the use of various artistic media, learns techniques for mixing, blending and layering colors
- Demonstrates complex use of the elements and principles
- Explores and sustains stamina to find creative solutions to an assignment
- Uses constructive feedback and critique to deeply engage in the artistic process
- Synthesizes and relates knowledge and personal experiences to create art
- Shows awareness and perception of culture and how it reflects in works of art
- Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials and tools
- Uses tools and media in a variety of creative ways
- Analyzes, interprets, and selects own artistic work for presentation
Eighth Grade Visual Art
- Manipulate color through the use of various artistic media, practice a variety of techniques for mixing, blending, and layering colors
- Demonstrates complex use of the elements and principles and naturally implements them in art
- Explores and sustains creative solutions and problems to an assignment. Sustains effort throughout a process.
- Synthesizes and relates knowledge and personal experiences that are reflected in their art
- Uses constructive feedback and critique to deeply engage in the artistic process
- Analyzes artwork using the language of visual art including vocabulary terms, the elements of art, and principles of design
- Uses presentation skills with increasing efficacy
- Uses social, cultural, environmental conditions to inspire creative process
- Analyzes, interprets, and selects own artistic work for presentation