Nine Week Plans
KINDERGARTEN
Practice Shapes – Drawing – 1 Week
Introduce students to art. Observe shapes in art and practice basic shapes. Turn basic shapes into
pictures.
Rainbow Shapes – Drawing – 1 week
Repeat a variety of shapes in a range of colors to practice the repetition to make rainbow shape patterns
with decoration.
I am Special/ Shape Man with Details – Drawing – 1 week
Use shapes to draw a self portrait and make observations about what makes us look different.
Paper Collage practice – Collage – 1 week
Learn to cut shapes from paper and make individual collages using shapes and imagination.
Paper Collage animals – Collage – 1 week
Divide animals into shapes and reconstruct them in paper. Discuss and add habitat details.
Self Portrait Painting – Paint- 2 weeks
Review the shapes of a self-portrait. Students will paint themselves with clothes they wear and in a
place they like to be.
An Animal I Would Like - Painting – 1 week
Revisit the ideas of deconstruction animals into shapes and painting them to show details and
environment
Clay Object/ Pumpkins – 1 week
Students are introduced to clay and make a simple object .
Portrait with found objects – 1 week
Students will use a wide variety of found objects to create a self portrait that will be photographed.
FIRST GRADE
Class portraits- Drawing– 2 weeks
Review the elements of a good self portrait. Students will individually draw self-portraits with details,
and will then cut them out and glue them to a combined class portrait.
Stand up for family – Big Idea Game/ Aesthetics – 1 Week
Students will discuss the Big Idea of Family and will play a game to observe various elements of family in
artworks.
Me and My Family – Painting – 2 weeks
Students will show the members of their family and the relative sizes of family members in a specific
place.
A family woven together – Paper weaving – 2 weeks
Use paper weaving techniques and choose colors that represent various family members.
Family pet mask – paper – 2 weeks
Use 3D paper techniques to create an animal mask showing a pet you’d like to have.
Pinch pots / luminaries – 1 week
Use basic clay techniques to make a luminary for your family.
SECOND GRADE
Class portraits- Drawing– 2 weeks
Review the elements of a good self portrait. Students will individually draw self-portraits with details,
and will then cut them out and glue them to a combined class portrait.
Community is Important – Big Idea Game/ Aesthetics – 1 week
Evaluate community art and find attributes to use in students’ own art
Me and a Friend in the Community – Drawing – 2 weeks
Use overlapping to show you and a friend in a specific place in the community.
Celebrate Good Times – collage – 2 weeks
Use paper collage techniques to show yourself participating in a community event.
Weaving an environment – Painting/ Paper Weaving – 2 weeks
Use a variety of painting techniques to create colors that show aspects of an environment. Use painted
papers to make a paper weaving.
THIRD GRADE
Portrait Drawing with Instructions – Drawing – 2 weeks
Learn the proportions of the face and how to create a realistic self-portrait.
Practice expressions – Drawing – 1 week
Using the basics of facial proportion, make observational drawing of a range of emotions.
Cultural Identity – Expressive Portraits in pastel - Drawing – 2 weeks
Create an Expressionist self-portrait that reveals cultural heritage through the use of visual
clues.
Cultural dancers – Collage – 3 weeks
Create a paper collage of a dancer wearing clothing that represents students’ heritage.
Animal pinch pots – Clay - 2 weeks
Create a functional ceramic object that shows an animal that is important to students’ family,
community, or nation
FOURTH GRADE
Body in proportion – Drawing – 2 weeks
Learn and draw the correct proportions of the human body
Gesture Drawing – Drawing – 1 week
Create very quick drawing of a model in various poses to help reinforce the proportions of the body
Move It Move It- Drawing - 2 weeks
Gesture drawing showing the progression of steps of an action in time.
An important moment in time – painting – 2 weeks
Create a full-figure self portrait painting depicting a personal accomplishment of an action in
time.
Wire sculpture – wire - 2 weeks
Create a wire sculpture of a human figure showing an action students will perform in the future.
Coil pots/ Face Jugs – 2 weeks
Use coiling techniques to create a ceramic pot in the tradition of Appalachian face jugs.
FIFTH GRADE
Contour drawing introduction/ Shoes – Drawing – 2 Weeks
Introduce students to the idea of contour drawing. Create a blind contour. Create a final contour of
students’ shoes
Global hero mask – Clay- 2 weeks
Create a ceramic mask of a character who will address a contemporary global problem
Globalization with postcards Bid Idea/ Aesthetics– 1 Week
Categorize a variety of historic artworks and find global connections between them
Glaze Global Hero Mask – 1 week
A Changed Landscape – Painting - 2 weeks
Use painting techniques to show a landscape that has been transformed by humans.
Appropriation – Drawing -3 weeks
Re-interpret a historic artwork to give it a global, contemporary meaning.
SIXTH GRADE
Hand Contour Drawing – Drawing – 1 week
Shading practice – Drawing – 1 week
Learn the basics of shading and practice shading and grey-scales
White paper sculpture shading practice - Drawing– 1 week
Make an observational drawing of an abstract white paper design using shading and grey-scale
Grid self portrait, with shading – 3 weeks
Draw an observational, realistic self-portrait using a grid and apply shading
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