Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Mondays and Wednesdays
1st Day Plan: 8/24/09
Introduction to the Room and Teacher. Seating chart and colored name tags on tables,
Yellow sunflower shape name tag matches ‘yellow sunflower’ table. Tables are named
after famous artists ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflower Table’. Give hand outs to go home to
parents. If time allows, complete first day drawings to put in folders. Fold paper in four
parts and do a drawing of a person, tree, animal and a house. Date the pages; these will
be put in folder to map progress. Student can decorate folders later.
Line discovery Unit: “Taking a line for a walk” If I were a line where would I go? What
would I do? How would I get there? Don’t lift your hand off the paper!!!!! Discover
Artist Paul Klee
Objective: Students experience different kinds of lines while creating them on their papers. Students
learn that different kinds of lines create textures and forms of the things we see everyday around us.
Assessment: Did student draw numerous kinds of lines? Did student create any texture with their lines?
Did student create any shapes as a result of their line play?
Tell students they are going to learn about lines today. After passing out paper, have them write their
name and turn it over.
Begin with straight lines. Have them stand up next to their chair and reach up to the ceiling stretching as
much as they can. Once the excitement has subsided a little have them sit down and draw a straight line
across their papers.
Draw on the board a inverted V shape and ask students how they would make this with their
bodies?(Standing while bending at the waste and touching the ground)Show them how to make a zigzag
line with V's and them have them select a different color crayon to draw their zig zag line on the paper.
Continue in the same fashion with different kinds of lines and watch the excitement as the children learn
about lines in a way totally new to them!
Along the way (or at the end) insert ways they can use these lines to create drawings. Allow time to
create another picture using the lines they have learned about.
Explain that lines can create patterns. Ask if they have learned about patterns yet and talk about the
relationship of patterns, math and art.
**See Art Extravaganza**
String Art Paintings using only primary colors
Finger Paintings with lines using only secondary colors
Colorful Color Wheel Caterpillars
Circular Designs with lids
Texture Rubbings with Crayons
Stencil Rubbings with Crayons
Bleach Blobs What do you see?
Symmetrical butterflies: Folded Paper Paintings
Watercolor Wax Resist Paintings
Expressive suns
Family portrait
Styrofoam plate prints
Fall Ideas
Let’s put on our inventors caps and get creative!
Paper Bag Hats
Crowns to Decorate
Picnic Plate Masks
Finger paint prints
‘Pedegraphs’ shoe prints
Oodles of Doodles
Food collages on picnic plates
Hands on op art
Mono print bugs
West wild things
Pinch pots
Van Gogh style flowers
Starry night
Value study moonlight silhouette
Monet’s water lilies with coffee filters
Treasure bags out of felt
Bracelets’ out of felt
Dinosaurs
Scuply pals
Doodle Bugs out of bottles
Bottle Fish
Matisse collage
Holiday Ideas:
Dough ornaments
Turkeys
Hearts
Oval egg shaped rabbits
Easter egg village
Houses made out of Paper Milk Cartons
Holidays Hold its- decorated paper bags
3-D flowers