Art

Students learn about the arts from the artist's perspective by active participationýthey learn from doing. Students learn to express and understand ideas that are communicated in color, photographs, images and movement as well as in written and spoken words. Young children use the arts to explore and recreate many images. Observation and expression through students own art as well as that of famous artists are concentrated on throughout the year. Elements and principles of art are studied in both design and history. Students learn base knowledge of media, materials and technique.

A cooperative educational partnership has been established with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln and The Bartlett School. Grades two through six visit the museum three times annually to further their education of the arts. Students explore the museum with gallery tours given by museum instructors and by creating art in the museum's studio facility as well as by the final visit with the Bartlett art teacher to tour the museum. All visits by the students are centered on the social studies curriculum at each grade level.

Pre-Kindergarten I • Painting with brushes, strings, sponges, Q-tips and fingers • Cutting and pasting • Water, rice and sand play Pre-Kindergarten II • Self-expression with clay, pencils, crayons • Painting with brush, string, sponges, fingers • Cutting and pasting • Stamp paint designs  Kindergarten • Fine motor skills using crayons, scissors, paste • Understanding colors • Murals • Use of materials for collage/mosaics  Grade One • Introduction of color wheel • Family and self portraits • Continued development of fine motor skills • Self-expression through various mediums Grade Two • Primary and secondary colors • Introduction to Impressionist art • Painting/collage • Symmetry

Grade Three • Painting with a full palette • Geometric shapes/collage in mixed media • Warm and cool pattern wax resist paintings • Introduction to 20th Century art Grade Four • Three-dimensional art • Art history - Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse • Proportion/size relations through self portraits • Color theory - primary and secondary colors Grade Five • Water colors • Mono-color printmaking • Shades and hues • Linoleum carvings with Egyptian theme Grade Six • Self-portrait • Study of figures - 20th Century, 3-D • Sculptures, dry media • 20th Century art