Nine Week Plans
KINDERGARDEN
Glaze clay – 1 week
Self portrait painting – 2 weeks
Paint a self portrait using basic shapes with clothes, hair, and place details.
An Important Meal Tradition– 2 weeks
Draw a special meal tradition you celebrate with your family.
Painting Patterns – 2 weeks
Introduce patterns and paint a grid pattern.
Thinking with a line – 2 weeks
Use straight and curved cardboard in black paint to print patterns using student’s initials.
FIRST GRADE
Family pet mask – paper – 2 weeks
Use 3D paper techniques to create an animal mask showing a pet you’d like to have.
Family Food Traditions – 1 week
Gift Bag Collage – 1 week
Decorate a gift bag for a pinch pot or luminary for a family member – 1 week
Painting my family – 2 weeks
Observe the art of William Johnson and paint a family portrait.
Blueprint for a House for Your Family – 2 weeks
Draw a design for a house that will meet the needs of your family.
Paper Bag House for your Family – 3 Weeks
Make a 3D paper bag model of the ideal house for your family.
SECOND GRADE
Community Landscape Painting – Painting – 3 weeks
Paint a seasonal landscape of a favorite place in the community – Painting – 3 weeks
Paper Animals in habitat – 2 weeks
Explore 3D paper techniques to make a imaginary animal and show the habitat it would need.
Hybrid animal – pastel – 2 weeks
Draw a hybrid animal using observational drawing techniques. Then decide the best habitat needs for
the hybrid animal.
Printmaking animal – 3 weeks
Make and print a cardboard collagraph plate of an animal in a habitat.
THIRD GRADE
Animal Vessel – Clay - 2 weeks
Create a functional ceramic object that shows an animal that is important to students’ family,
community, or culture.
Cultural dancers – Collage – 3 weeks
Create a paper collage of a dancer wearing clothing that represents students’ heritage.
Glaze animal vessel – 1 week
Set Up the Table – paper collage – 3 weeks
Use 2D paper techniques to make an abstract collage showing an important cultural meal inspired by
Matisse.
FOURTH GRADE
Coil pots/ Face Jugs – 2 weeks
Use coiling techniques to create a ceramic pot in the tradition of Appalachian face jugs.
Abstract O’Keefe pastel – 3 weeks
Use pastels to abstract a natural image in a way that makes it less recognizable.
Non- objective art inspired by music – 3 weeks
Students will sketch non-objective designs based on a wide range of music in different styles and
tempos. Students will choose one style and tempo to base their final work on.
Kinetic Sculptures Based on Forms in Nature – sculpture – 2 weeks
Students will use a variety of materials to create a sculpture that moves in time based on natural forms.
FIFTH GRADE
A Changed Landscape – Painting - 3 weeks
Use painting techniques to show a landscape that has been transformed by humans or nature.
Appropriation – Drawing -3 weeks
Re-interpret a historic artwork to give it a global, contemporary meaning.
Non- Objective prints based on global music – 3 weeks
Students will make a variety of non-objective sketches inspired by a variety of music from around
the world. One of these sketches will be turned into a foam collagraph for printing.
SIXTH GRADE
Teapots – Clay – 3 weeks
Create a clay teapot that reflects all the clay techniques that 6th graders have learned and that shows a
decorative design that expresses a student’s identity
Pulp paper collage – 2 weeks
Students will draw an object that has significance to their identity and make a pulp paper collage from
tissue paper and water.
Evocative memory – painting – 3 weeks
Students will paint an important memory that was significant to their building their identity.
Self-Portrait Emotion prints – 3 weeks