scissors, glue, construction paper, heavyweight paper and construction paper crayons
pencils
tabletop for setting up materials and board to write information
I can create a composition that is balanced using overlapping shapes that are both geometric and organic. I can distinguish between geometric and organic shapes. I can point out details in the children"s book, "Drawing with Scissors" , by Jane O"Conner and Jessie Hartland. I can write a 2-3 sentence description that describes the symbol and color that I used to create my personal collage composition. I can create a collage by cutting out shapes to create a balanced composition using construction paper.
Day One Objective: Students will delve into the world of artist Henri Matisse and his techniques, particularly his use of nature in his collages. They will learn the difference between geometric and organic shapes, as well as the meaning of symbols and how they can be used to express individuality. Additionally, students will analyze the children's book "Drawing with Scissors" by Jane O'Connor and Jessie Hartland to observe Matisse's love for nature through the various plant leaves depicted. Day Two Objective: Students will create their own collages using shapes, colors, symbols, and nature to express their personal mood and identity. They will explain and demonstrate how their collage incorporates a variety of shapes, colors, and aspects of nature. Day Three Objective: Students will continue to work on their collages, writing a brief description of how their work expresses their individuality, and presenting their finished piece to the class for feedback on the use of shapes, colors, symbols, and nature in their composition. Day 3 (Optional): Matisse's Botanical Installation Students will create their own botanical garden, taking inspiration from Matisse's paper cutouts using native plants to create a small outdoor garden installation. Creating a serene and tranquil environment in the community that will restore and nurture the habitat by attracting and feeding pollinators. Materials School Provides: Native and Pollinator Plants. (Outdoor Installation Dates: April-June)
Help hand out supplies and assist in executing student's project
Grade K
Kindergarten: Mathematics: Geometry: Identify and describe shapes: Cluster #2. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
Kindergarten: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3 With prompting and support, identify characters, setting and major events in a story.
Kindergarten: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.ka Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials
Kindergarten: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.ka Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.
Grade 1
Grade 1: Mathematics: Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes: Cluster #1. Distinguish between defining attributes versus non-defining attributes; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
Grade 1: Reading Standards for Literature: Craft and Structure #6: Students Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
Grade 1: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.1a Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
Grade 1: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.2a Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
Grade 2
Grade 2: Mathematics: Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes: Cluster #1. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes.
Grade 2: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Grade 2: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 2.2a Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions and curiousity.
Grade 2: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.2a Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
Grade 3
Grade 3: Mathematics: Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes: Cluster #1. Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes and that the shared attributes can define a larger category. Recognize rhombuses, rectangles and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
Grade 3: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3: Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Grade 3: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.3a Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
Grade 3: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.3a Create Personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
Grade 4
Grade 4: Mathematics: Geometry: Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles: Cluster #3 Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Grade 4: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3: Describe in depth a character, setting or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
Grade 4: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.4a Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art of design problem.
Grade 4: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 2.4a When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.
