Grade 1

From Farm to Table

Objectives 
Creating

•     Communicate the stages of food production from farm to table in an artwork
•     Use drawing to sharpen their powers of observation
•     Identify, learn and reflect on the stages of their own and others’ creative process 

Responding

•     Reflect and learn by exploring the elements of art
•     Use appropriate terminology to discuss art work 

Dioramas (2017)

Students build a diorama using observational drawing to illustrate the stages of food production. 

 Dioramas (2018)

 Shadow Boxes (2019)

Learning Experiences: Use appropriate terminology to discuss artwork

 

It's All About Me

Objectives

•     Express themselves applying a range of strategies
•     Demonstrate control over painting, cutting and gluing materials and processes
•     Sharpen powers of observation
•     Investigate the purposes of artworks from different times, places and cultures including their own

Watercolour Self-Portraits (2017-19)

Students create self-portraits using watercolours and include their names in bubble letters.

Copies of other artists work (2018)

Students respond to art from different times, places and cultures by selecting their favourite portraits from art history and copying them. 

Mondigliani Portraits (2019)

This project was very useful for learning about proportions by examining the distortions Mondigliani used in his portraits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What's the Weather?

Objectives

•         Apply a range of strategies to express themselves
•         Understand that people communicate ideas, feelings and experiences through the arts

Outcomes

•         Identify, plan and make specific choices of materials, tools and processes
•         Sharpen their powers of observation

Printmaking (2018)

Students use a foam block technique to create an edition of three prints. They identify the materials and tools used in printing an edition while planning and choosing the imagery and colours to communicate their own idea about the impact of the weather on the environment.

Printmaking (2019)

Let's Play

Papier-mâché hot air balloons (2017)
Students explore paper construction techniques in the process of making their own papier-mâché hot air balloon toys. They decorate their toys to communicate their experiences and practice identifying the formal elements of art when describing their work.

 

 

 

Tell me a Story

Ceramic pinch pot fish (2017)
Students make a pinch pot out of clay and transform this into a fish by adding fins and eyes. They create their fish as a model of a character before glazing and firing their work in the school kiln.

Let's Plant It!

Painted cut paper collages (2018)
Students create paper cut out collages using stylized plant shapes. They explore the paper cut outs by Matisse as inspiration for their work. Students investigate colour mixing (primary and secondary colours) in addition to contrast of colour, shape and size.