What do Second graders need to know about art?

Second grade students will be able to identify and use visual arts vocabulary and concepts, and apply basic skills and techniques.

How you can help your child with Visual Arts:

Display artwork around the home and workplace.
Keep a variety of art materials available.
Encourage safe use of material and clean-up practices.
Do art projects with your child.
Talk about the art objects in your home.
Sign, date and save some artwork in a folder.
Visit online galleries, museums and cultural events.
Your child needs to understand and apply Visual Arts concepts, vocabulary and skills in order to:

Identify and demonstrate different line qualities, e.g. thick/thin.
Identify and use warm/cool colors.
Identify and use repetition in artwork.
Use texture in two and three dimensional work.
Vary pressure, placement and direction of tools with control.
Use one type of tool to create different visual qualities.
Create space in artwork using overlap and relative size.

Your child needs to demonstrate the thinking skills used in the artistic processes by:

Applying a creative, performing and responding/reflecting process to Visual Art.
Your child needs to understand how to communicate through visual art by:

Combining geometric and organic shapes to create free form shapes.

Your child needs to make connections within and across the Arts, to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work by:

Describing the features of a specific artists or culture’s art.
Describing career roles in Visual Art and demonstrating the skills used in the world of work.
Resources to use at home:
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction at http://www.k12.wa.us/curriculumInstruct/arts/
Wenatchee School District web site at http://home.wsd.wednet.edu/

Second Grade Lewis and Clark

In second grade we created name tags and studied about a painter named William F. Reese.  We observed a painting done by Mr. Reese titled Chiapanecas.  We noticed his use of color and lines.  We used oil pastels to create our own dancers using the elements of art bellow.

line—an element of art: the flat path of a dot through space used by artists to control the viewer’s eye movement; a thin mark made by a pencil, pen, or brush

line quality—the width or appearance of any line, such as thick or thin, smooth or rough, continuous or broken

line types—the variety of directions and shapes that a line may have; vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, zigzag

line types—there are five (5) types of lines:  vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, zigzag

shape—an element of visual arts; a closed space made when a line connects to itself

geometric shapes—a defined form; circle, square, triangle

geometric—any shapes that are based on math principles, such as a square, circle, and triangle hatching, cross hatching, scribbling, broken lines, repeating lines and shapes

texture—an element of visual arts; how something feels or appears to feel; stippling, hatching, cross hatching, scribbling, broken lines, repeating lines and shapes

warm—a group of colors in the color wheel associated with warmth, such as red, yellow, and orange. They appear to advance toward the viewer in an artwork

cool colors—group of colors on the color wheel that includes blues, greens, and violets.  They appear to look further away from the viewer in an artwork

value/shading—an element of visual arts; the lightness and darkness of a line, shape, or form