THE ART PROGRAM
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Ms. Bassler's students are taught art skills, concepts, and vocabulary. Each lesson uses problem solving skills and creative thinking. Ms. Bassler uses a variety of materials with her students to make art both challenging and fun. See our pottery program.
Kindergarten students focus on shapes and colors.
They learn to draw a person using shapes
Create a Self-Portrait
Paint pictures of animals
Sculpt Pinch Pots out of clay
Collage techniques
Paper Weaving
Print Making
First Graders continue to develop their skills as artists and begin to tackle more complex projects.
Draw a Self-Portrait with clues to their identity
Study different types of trees through art
Paint a Still Life
Create a Clay Pot
Make Masks
Design a house
Print Making
Paper Weaving with pattern
Stitchery
Second Graders begin to work with the idea of overlapping, fore, middle, and background in their art.
Draw two people overlapping
Paint fruit overlapping
Design a city
Draw a cricket with pattern
Create an imaginary map
Sculpt an animal out of clay
Print Making with Tag Board
Learn about Architectural Ducks
Third Graders focus on emotion and expression in their art.
Create a Self-Portrait
Paint a Self-Portrait with feeling
Look at Egyptian Art
Create a Clay Tile/Glaze Tile
Construct a three-dimensional paper house
Print Making with string
Learn more about Stitchery
Develop new collage techniques
Fourth Graders begin to develop motion and action in their art.
Create Gesture Drawings
Make a Wire Sculpture
Paint a landscape of Virginia
Paint a magnified flower
Start learning about Abstraction
Build a clay coil pot
Design a doorway
Print Making about the weather
Fifth graders learn to create their own style in art.
Learn about and create a Contour Drawing
Design the inside of a room
Learn about and make Cave Paintings
Study story telling in art
Design a coin
Magnify images to create art
Make a Gargoyle out of clay
Design a Greek Temple
Sixth Graders learn the elements of art and use them to enhance their work.
Draw a Self-Portrait
Draw a Picasso style Self-Portrait
Paint Music
Explore concepts in Landscape Art
Make faces out of wire
Create a clay figure
Design a house by using a collage
Print Making with linoleum
Weaving with yarn
