Visual Art Curriculum Map 2018-2019

Arlington County Public Schools

Carlin Springs Elementary
Becky Miller, NBCT, MAT

Grade Level 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter
Intro: “Draw A Person” Shape Collages, shape paintings Shapes Sculptures Natural Found Object Sculptures

Line and Color: Clay Pinch pots Cassatt family Symmetrical Butterflies
Pre K Lines of all Kinds drawings
(Zig zag, straight, diagonal, curvy, Ezra Jack Keats’ Snowy Day 3-D Paper sculpture
wavy, dotted, dashed, spiral, etc…) Winter Houses Observational drawing:
flowers, blocks, books,
Crayon Rubbing Jim Dine Hearts fruit etc...

Color Mixing and Texture: How to draw lessons

Pumpkin Paintings (Online handouts)

Cutting and Printing: Repetition in art - line Last “Draw a Person”

Mondrian Stamped Collage cardboard printing
With cardboard

Small, Medium, and Large:

Kandinsky Circle Stamping
(bottle tops) Black History Month: Alma
Thomas collage

Pre-K Portraits:
Mixed media collage
 “Draw A Person” K.6
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
Kindergarten
Expressive Kandinsky line drawings
K.7.2, K.2
Kandinsky concentric circle collage
K.7.1, K.7.3, K.3, K.9, K.11
Line Quality (Franz Kline/all kinds
of line) K.7.2
Fall Leaves K.5
Clay Heart medallions K.11, K.7.4
Winter landscape painting K.8,
K.16
The Snowman, by Raymond
Briggs: Snowman paintings
Black History Month: Adinkra
stamping K.7.5, K.13, K.14
Community collage K.4, K.7.5
The Rainbow Fish, by Architecture Drawing
Marcus Pfister 1.7
Cinco de Mayo Suns - drawing
Insect drawings K.10 and clay
Melted Crayon Prints Photobooth Facial Expressions
K.9 K.18, K.2
Draw on
sandpaper/iron to make Three-D paper sculptures
print
“Draw a Person” K.6
Butterfly monoprints
with tempera
Matisse Collage K.9
Torn Paper Monet
Water lilies K.11
 First Draw A Person
Eric Carle Caterpillar Collage 1.2,
First 1.4
Grade
Very Busy Spider Mixed Media
1.11
Autumn Pumpkins with faces
Color Theory: primary and
secondary
Rough Face Girl Illustrations 2.1,
2.4
Second Lakota Sioux Tipi 2.11, 2.12, 2.3
Grade
Lakota Blanket/Parfleche 2.4, 2.13
Native American Shields 2.5.5
Pueblo Cooking Pots 2.10, 2.5.2
Pattern Landscape Printing with
Color Mixing Math 1.8, 1.7.1,
1.7.3, 1.7.4
Portraits 1.11
Family Portraits 1.10, 1.6
Black History Month:
Community/Cityscape Collage
(Jacob Lawrence) 1.8. 1.9
Snowflake folding and cutting
Symmetry Snowflakes
Black History Month: Faith
Ringgold Tar Beach
2.4, 2.1.7
Tree Sculpture and Drawing
2.9, 2.10
Clay pinch pots 1.12, 1.13
Butterfly Life Cycle 1.7.3
Architectural Drawing 1.11
Flower Painting with tint/shade
Family Portraits 2.6
Flower Painting with Primary
and Secondary Colors 2.9, 2.5.1
Chinese Cherry Blossom
Japanese Scrolls
Earth Day Recycled Collage
Animal Habitat Collages with
foreground, middle, and
background
Line Vocabulary Drawings
Sequence Bookmaking
Picasso Cubism Portraits
American Flag Art 1.14
Identity: Egyptian Sarcophagi 2.13
Quadrant drawing: 4 art genres
2.15
Accordion Narrative book
(beginning, middle, end)
 Autumn Leaves composition: crop
and overlap
Third Clay: Leaf bowls
Grade
Depth in Art: foreground, middle
ground, and background landscape
3.9
Pumpkin paintings
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh
4.8
Fourth Starry Night Paintings 4.8
Grade
Art + Math:
Reflection cityscapes, quilt
patterns,
Black History Month:
The Underground Railroad
Zentangle 4.5.2, 4.6
Sketchbook organization
Modern art - Mondrian 5.5
Fifth Grade
Pablo Picasso - Art History
Cubism drawing and cardboard
assemblage
Black History Month:
Narrative: Romare Bearden
Collage
Molas 3.2, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.7.4,
3.7.5
Art and Architecture of Mali
3.16
Positive Negative Space 3.7.1,
3.7.2
Mattisse - organic shapes mural
Watercolor Techniques
Watercolor paintings
Foil Repousse with radial
symmetry
Realistic Hands with contour
and value 4.9
Clay coil pots 4.10, 4.14
Genres of art
Zentangle Landscape
Clay African Masks 5.5.2, 5.5.3,
5.10
Thematic Photomontage 5.3
Greek Clay Amphora Vessels
3.10, 3.11, 3.15
Narrative Art: Personal
memory paintings inspired by
Carmen Loza 3.6, 3.19
Cityscape, Seascape,
Landscape Lesson
Personal Identity Proportional
Portraits (Van Gogh, Catlett,
Kahlo) 4.3, 4,4, 4.14,
Visualizing and Interpreting
Art
Figure in Motion: Gesture
Drawing, Wire Figure
Sculpture
Still Life: Value Studies with
painted value studies on 9X12’
black
Nearika/Huichol yarn painting
5.11
DaVinci: art history
Mona Lisa 3.22
Leonardo da Vinci:
Simple Machine invention design
drawing
3.2
Warm and Cool Colors
Still Life: sketching natural and
manmade objects 3.8
Room Interior with Perspective,
Placement, Size Variation
Abstract Hands 4.17
The Elements and Principles of Art
Abstract/non objective art 4.5.4,
4.5.5
Drawing unit
Nature Digital Ipad Photography
5.9, 5.17
Small art:
Elements/Principles (op art, pop
art, pointillism, etc.) 5.15, 5.16

Radial Design - oil pastels
Concentric Circles - oil pastels
Notan Squares 9X9”
Compare and contrast 5.14
Egyptian Masks – plaster craft Sketchbooks - drawing unit
Blind contour portraits
Found Object Assemblage:
Chaos and order photography
(Photography -Ipad)

Drawing from observation,
imagination, memory, and
expression
Fifth Grade
Drawing 3D shapes with value
Sketchbook
Contour line drawings
Proportion and scale
Drawing with angles and shapes
Technology composition/ Perspective: Cityscape, dream
Quadrant Composition bedroom (study Van Gogh)
Shading and shadows Free Choice
Form

SIOP:
Post Its on “Big Questions”
Exit/Entry Tickets (for Smart-goal Assessment)
Self Reflection with a rubric
Self Reflection in writing
Peer Critique/Constructive Feedback