Art appreciation
Students work daily with many art materials. Students are introduced to a variety of materials and techniques. Crayons, markers, scissors, glue, and paintbrushes are all great tools for mastering fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Children love to talk about their artwork; it gives them practice with language and self-expression.
Monthly students will learn about a different important artist or art technique. They not only learn about a new art technique and/or the artists but they will use what they learned and apply it, making a wonderful, exciting masterpiece of their own. By using different mediums students begin to realize that artists use art to express their feelings or evoke feelings from others. Students may learn about Jackson Pollack and then make their own splatter painting. They may learn about Michelangelo and then make sculptures out of salt dough or even paint under the table like Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Students work daily with many art materials. Students are introduced to a variety of materials and techniques. Crayons, markers, scissors, glue, and paintbrushes are all great tools for mastering fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Children love to talk about their artwork; it gives them practice with language and self-expression.
Monthly students will learn about a different important artist or art technique. They not only learn about a new art technique and/or the artists but they will use what they learned and apply it, making a wonderful, exciting masterpiece of their own. By using different mediums students begin to realize that artists use art to express their feelings or evoke feelings from others. Students may learn about Jackson Pollack and then make their own splatter painting. They may learn about Michelangelo and then make sculptures out of salt dough or even paint under the table like Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
