IHMCS Curriculum Overview

Link to Art by Grades Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Eight

Art

Kindergarten (ART)

• Primary colors
• Secondary colors
• Manipulate paper in many ways
• Visible aspects in artwork
• Difference between small, medium, and large
• Basic shapes
• Types of lines
• Variety of media: tempera, watercolors, markers, crayons, oil pastels
• Elements of art

Grade 1 (ART)

• Warm and cool colors
• Movement in a work of art
• Value using lights and darks, tints and shades
• Communicate through artwork
• Styles and artists that create them
• Elements of art using line, shape, color form, space, value, texture
• Principles of art

Grade 2 (ART)

• Artist styles
• Art based on styles
• Types of lines
• Lines to create texture
• Craftsmanship when cutting and pasting
• Foreground, middle ground, and background
• Elements of art when creating artwork
• Principles of art

Grade 3 (ART)

• Communicate through art
• Styles of art
• Body proportions
• Difference between 2-D and 3-D work
• Organic and geometric shapes and being able to draw
• Color mixing
• Warm, cool, secondary, and primary colors
• Elements of art
• Principles of art

Grade 4 (ART)

• Vocabulary for discussion of artwork
• Color theory
• Mix colors using primary colors
• Express ideas creating art
• Printmaking
• Art of other cultures
• Elements of art
• Principles of art

Grade 5 (ART)

• Communicate through artwork
• Art of realism
• Commercial art
• Impressionism painting
• Art of other cultures
• Value with pencil, color pencil, and paint
• Tints and shades
• Exposure to variety of mediums
• Elements of art
• Principles of art

Grade 6 (ART)

• Communicate through artwork
• Positive and negative space
• Art of collage
• Elements of art used in artworks
• Principles of art used in artworks
• Contour line drawings
• Elements of art
• Principles of art

Grade 7 (ART)

• Create artwork based on self expression
• Calligraphy
• Visual reference drawings
• Proportions
• Canvas paintings using color mixing
• Op-Art
• Elements of art
• Principles of art
• Artwork using and identifying elements and principles used

Grade 8 (ART)

• Commercial art design
• Still life drawing based on proportions
• Canvas painting
• Visual reference drawings
• Medieval art
• Formal steps for critiquing artwork
• Artwork based on researched artists
• Elements of art
• Principles of art