4th grade is an exciting year for visual art!  Students work very hard creating a set design for the 4th grade opera.  In class, we have an opportunity to create a variety of art.

Lessons titles with concepts:

"Silly Self-Portraits"

- portraiture, abstract, symbols

"Organic Transformations" - organic and geometric shapes, environment, transform

"Oval Action Figures" - body proportion, measurement, gesture drawing, movement

"Terrific Trees" - landscape, foreground,

middleground, background, creating a tree using the 'v method'

"Surreal Collage" - artist Salvador Dali, Surrealism, collage

"Pottery Unit" - artist Maria Martinez, pottery, functional, coil, repetition

"Pointillism" - artist

Georges Seurat, Pointillism

"Stabiles" - shape, paper sculpture, balance, artist Alexander Calder

"Water Cycle with Watercolor" - blending, watercolor techniques, cool colors

        -this lesson incorporates

science standards and is a collaboration with the dance department

"3D Shapes" - two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional, vanishing point, warm and cool colors

        -this lesson incorporates 4th grade math standards