Curriculum Map K-5 Art
Aug
Sept
K
1st
2nd
3rd
Rules/Intro
Rules/Intro
Rules/Intro
Sketchbook and Intro
Doodle Creatures
Repetition Line
designs
Line and Pattern
Design-Magic
Carpets
Bend, fold, roll line
Design
Hot Air Balloon
patterns
Kandinsky shape and
line painting
Paul Klee shape
castles
Mondrian Line and
Primary Color Design
Oct
Nov
4th
Create Sketchbooks
and Portfolios
5th
Create Sketchbooks
and Portfolios
Movement and Line
Design-Stabiles
*“Coney Island at
Night” Digital slide
Bad hair day-Line
designs
Op Art Names
Watercolor Barns
and Farms
Faith Ringgold-Tar
Beach/city chalk
stencils
(cont.)
Contour and Blind
Contour exercises
(cont.)
(cont.)
(cont.)
(cont.)
Contour line
Drawing-shoes
Kandinsky
Circles/Shapes
colloge
Shape Robot with
Chalk
Kandinsky rainbow
circle painting and
collage
Matisse fish tank
Positive/Negative
Space-Keith Harring
Figure Drawing
(cont.)
(cont.)
Patriotic DesignEmphasis
(cont.)
Printmaking with
found objects-the Dot
(cont.)
Pumpkin Patch
Drawing
Still Life drawingCharcoal
VanGogh Starry
night studies
Gesture Drawing
Texture Rubbings
Tree Silhouettes
with tissue collage
(cont.)
Scarecrows
(cont.)
Athlete Portraits
Wild Things drawings
Color mixing
pumpkin patch
Spooky Spiders
(cont.)
Fall Still LifeTempera batik
(cont.)
Pumpkin patch
painting
Jack-o-lantern
collage
(cont.)
Midnight Pumpkins
(cont.)
Dia De Muerte Sugar
Skulls
Printing/Stamping
spooky spider
Trick-or-Treat picture
FrakenFaces
Witches shoes
Haunted House
(cont.)
Playdough
Exploration
Thunderbirds
Tricky Totem Pole
Kachina Doll Collage
(cont.)
Fabric Weaving
Dec
Color Mixingsecondary colors
Dinosaurswatercolor
Stuffed paper animal
sculpture
Landscape with
Chalk and Glue
Plains Indians
Shields
(cont.)
Turkey collage
(cont.)
(cont.)
(cont.)
(cont.)
Scratch Art Design
Thanksgiving
coloring sheets
Owl Painting
Log Cabins
Winter tree
printmaking
Radial Balance Batik
(cont.)
Winter Village with
shapes and snow
Penguin portrait
North Pole elves
Warm mugs-pattern
designs
(cont.)
Picasso Collage
Snowman at night
(cont) add northern
lights
(cont.)
Christmas tree
mosaic
Winter
Trees/shadows
Sledding and
snowboarding
Henri Matisse Flower
vase paintingspattern
Snowman mixed
media
Christmas Tree
watercolor with
triangles
Jan
Polar Bear portraits
Hats and mittenspattern
Feb
Snowball fight
drawing
End of semester
review and makeup
work
Snowflakes-Radial
balance
Paper head
Sculpture
End of semester
review and makeup
work
Winter landscape
silhouette
(cont.)
Ice Skaters
Printmaking
Foreshortening
(cont.)
End of semester
review and makeup
work
Winter Landscape
ink and watercolor
Air Dry Clay
sculptures
(cont.)
Romare BeardenNeighborhoods
collage
(cont.)
(cont.)
(cont.)
Germs-Mixed media/
paint sculptures
Cave Painting
(cont.)
Kandinsky/painting to
music
(cont.)
1pt Perspective
Rainbow fish group
project
Jim Dine-Warm and
cool hearts weaving
Egyptian Mask
Eric Carle Collage
Chinese New Year
Dragons
Perspective Drawing
Valentines Day
Hearts-value mixing
(cont.)
Burton Morris
Cartoon Hearts
(cont.)
(cont.)
(cont.)
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Frog paintings and
pop-up dragonfly
collage
Picasso Faces
Clay Sculptures
Georgia O’keefe
flowers
Clay Sculpture
One fish, two fish
painting
(cont.)
Clay Sculptures
Dr. Seuss Whoville
(cont.)
Value Studies
Mar
April
May
Possible Project
ideas/themes
Lion Face painting
Clay Sculptures
Cats in Hats
(cont.)
Clay Sculptures
Value Portraits
House is a house for
me
Sea turtle resist
(cont.)
Castle Drawings
ImpressionismClaude Monet
lilypads
(cont.)
Things that Fly
drawing
(cont.)
Garden Gnomes
painting
(cont.)
(cont.)
Planting a Rainbowfingerpainting
Kite flyers
(cont.)
(cont.)
Roy Lichtenstein Self
portraits
Negative space
letters
Pirate Ships
Rousseau Jungle
Collage
Maori Koru
(cont.)
Rainy day umbrellamixed media
(cont.)
(cont.)
Clay Painting
Holi-Festival of Color
Elephants
Contiune
researcs/sculptures
Ladybug collage
Clay painting
Outer Space
Transportation
Aboriginal Animal
design
(cont.)
Matisse name
collage
Emotions Faces
Dandelion portraits
“summer wishes”
(cont.)
(cont.)
Wire Sculptures
Clay Painting
Fireflies Resist
painting
Alien Pop-ups
Sombreros
Aztec Suns
Clay Painting
Action Painting
1,2,3 to the ZooTrain
Wayne Thiebaud Ice
Cream
Clay painting
Finger Puppets
Mural-Group work
Colorwheel Activity
End of year projects
End of year projects
End of year projects
End of year Review
End of Year Review
End of Year Review
*Texture pendants
with air dry clay
*Waxed paper and
watercolor-Monet
bridges?
*Clay: snails,
pendants, birds, owls
Chihuli Sculpture
(ongoing)
Digital Media/Artist
Research
Presentation
Contiune
researcs/sculptures
*ipad card projecttypedrawing poem