1. Creativity
2. Confidence
3. Problem Solving
4. Perseverence
5. Focus
6. Non-Verbal Communication
7. to recieve Constructive Feedback
8. Collaboration
9. Dedication
10. Accountability

SquareOne art: order forms coming home in March

Art Show: May

4th grade Arnot Art museum reception: June                                         
                                          

Are learning to:

• Create a small, hollow pinch pot
• Identify art materials and supplies
• Identify some elements of art (line, color, shape, texture)
• Paint pictures expressing ideas about family/community
• Use lines, shapes and colors to make patterns
• Build skills (use of scissors, glue and paper, paint, pastel)
• Make a collage with cut or torn shapes
• Use geometric shapes in a work or art
• Paint small and big sections with various brushes
• Can repeat patterns found in nature or works of art
• Create a pinch pot or textured slab of clay
• Identify the elements of art in nature, the environment and works of art
• Use texture in clay art and painted artwork
• Mix secondary colors from primary colors
• Fold & cut paper into symmetrical shape
• Draw or paint a still life
• Create artwork based on observation
• View and create art from various cultures
• Identify and create various subject matters (landscapes, seascapes, portraits)?

Are learning to:

• Understand repetition and balance in nature, environment and works of art
• Identify the elements of art in nature, the environment and works of art focusing on line, color,
• shape/form, texture and space
• Demonstrate beginning skills in basic tools and art-making processes.
• Demonstrate beginning skill in oil pastel, watercolors and tempera
• Depict the illusion of space by using overlapping shapes, relative size and placement
• Paint a picture using warm and cool colors
• Use bilateral or radial symmetry to create visual balance
• Identify and discuss how art is used in events and celebrations in various cultures, past and
• present, including the use in their own lives.
• Use vocabulary to describe art objects from various time periods and cultures
• Use placement, overlapping and size differences to show opposites
• Use expressive colors to create mood and personality within a portrait of a hero from long or
• recent past.
• Use tints and shades in creating art
• Use rhythm and movement in works of art
• Use foreground, middle ground and background to create the illusion of space
• Compare and contrast works of art made by different media (e.g. watercolor and tempera)
• Use tempera paint to create tints, shades and neutral colors
• Draw a landscape, seascape or cityscape to create the illusion of space
• Create a work of art based on observation of objects or scenes in daily life
• Create an imaginative clay structure
• Create a piece of art that expresses rhythm and movement
• Identify artists from his or her own community/county/state or regional art traditions

Are learning to:

• Describe how negative and positive shapes/forms are used in art
• Use watercolors effectively
• Paint or draw a landscape
• Identify and use pairs of complementary colors and discuss how artists use them to create mood
• Use the concept of proportion in a work of art (face, figure, etc)
• Use shading to transform a 2-dimensional shape into what appears to be a 3-dimensional shape
• Use the conventions of facial or figure proportions
• Use fibers to create a simple weaving
• Use contrast in a work of art
• Create a piece of art that focuses on the different cultures that contributed to California’s history
• and art heritage
• Create a work of art using bilateral or radial symmetry