Fridge Curriculum

Art Fridge Curriculum
Art Core Knowledge Curriculum Map
K – 8TH GRADE

Assignments may vary or change due to differentiating to specific class needs such as time on tasks, and responsibility with materials.

KINDERGARTEN
Elements of Art
Sculpture
Looking at and Talking About Art
Assignments:  Self-portrait, Good Coloring practice, Designing Pete the Cat Shoes, Silly Faced Pumpkins, Scribble Monsters, Shape Puppets, All about lines, Lionel the Lion, ROY G BIV lined rainbow streams with rocket and clouds , Warm/Cool Colors Hot Dogs and Cool Cats, Warm and Cool Butterflies and Bumble Bees, and Thiebaud style texture cupcake

1ST GRADE
Art from Long Ago
Elements of Art
Kinds of Pictures: Portrait and Still Life
Assignments:
Review Elements of art, Warm/ Cool colors Turtles, Draw along still life, Patchwork Elmer and Landscape, Owl Moon Collage, Silly Eyed Cats, Cave painting inspired animals, warm/cool colors moon collage, and Self- Portraits and Family Portraits

2nd Grade
Elements of Art
Sculpture
Kinds of Pictures: Landscapes
Abstract Art  
Abstract Art – Life-like and abstract animals and landscape
 Architecture & Japanese Art: Ancient and Present examples
Symmetry/line of symmetry
Form, Shape, Line quality, Placement, Emphasis
Assignments: Name design,  Self-portrait Kehinde Wiley style,  "Starry Night” Landscapes, What is Abstract Paul Klee Cats, Review of line sculpture, Fall Landscapes, James Rizzi Cityscapes, warm beverage mixed media design,  and Complimentary Colored Giraffes.

3rd Grade
Elements of Art
American Indian Art
Look at Navajo rugs and sand paintings
Art of Ancient Roman and Byzantine Civilization

Create weaving patterns with yarn
Use linear patterns and repetition
Figure/Ground and how elements of art work together
Introduce size and scale relationships and horizon lines
Assignments: Self- Portraits, What is Figure/ground and positive/ negative space,  Native American themed art, Thunderbird and pottery design, Story book Quilt drawings, Winter Fox, and Using Value and Light in Pumpkin Still life 

4th Grade –
Art of the Middle Ages in Europe
Islamic Art and Architecture
Art of Africa
Art of China
Art of a New Nation: The United States
Assignments: Self- Portraits, Medieval Pop out  castles, Patterned Pie drawings, Printmaking Mandala designs, Chinese dragon, African symbols, Adinkra and Kente Cloth inspired weaving. 
 
5th Grade Core Knowledge Curriculum
Art of the Renaissance Concentration on Drawing Skills
American Art: Nineteenth-Century United States , Hudson River School Landscape Painters.
Art of Japan Study Samurai armor and textile art,

Assignments: Geometry Stars, 1 point perspective boxes,  Contour drawing Zentangle hands, Aerial Perspective Landscape, Notan  designs.
 
6th Grade
I. Art History: Periods and Schools (Classical; Gothic; Renaissance; Baroque; Rococo; Neoclassical; Romantic; Realistic)
Some assignments have been revised
A. Classical – Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
Architecture
Statues/Sculptures
 B. Gothic – Art of Medieval Europe
Primarily a French Architectural Movement
Illuminated Manuscripts
Icons
Cathedrals and their components
Renaissance – Rebirth or Revival of Classical
Italian
Northern Renaissance 
Focus on Perspective
Realism


Assignments: Greek vase mythological monster design, Pen drawing of Roman Architecture, Illuminated letter, One point perspective birds eye view, Atmospheric landscape, and Contour hand drawing. 

7th Grade
I. Art History: Period and Schools (Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; Expressionism
and Abstraction; Modern American Painting)
1. Impressionism
Characteristics
Art and artists 
2. Post-Impressionism
Characteristics
Textures
Dashes
Pointillism/Stippling, ink and watercolor 
3. Modern Art Movements
Abstraction
Cubism
Fantasy
De Stijl
If time Allowed
Surrealism
Dali
Magritte
Ernst
Assignment: Impressionist inspired Landscape with pastel crayons Pointillism apple dot drawing, van Gogh Trees, Cubist guitar painting, Matisse View from a window, and drawing Surreal eyes

8th Grade
Art History: Periods and Schools (Painting Since World War II; Photography; 20th-Century Sculpture)
Architecture Since the Industrial Revolution
Abstract Expressionism
Assignments: Optical drawing, Jackson Pollock action art,  Kandinsky abstract art, Name Design Pop Art, and Pop art themed candy drawing.