Drafting, Revising, and Exhibiting 4.1: By the end of grade 4, students will select a work or works created during the year and discuss them with a parent, classmate, or teacher, explaining how the work was made, and why it was chosen for discussion. 4.2: By the end of grade 4, students will select works for exhibition and work as a group to create a display. Children can choose personal art works to be used for display at home, in school, or in the community, accompanied by dictated labels or descriptions. Children can create a portable exhibition in the form of a big book of drawings and paintings that can be checked out and taken home. Critical Response 5.1: By the end of grade 4, in the course of making and viewing art, students will learn ways of discussing it, such as by making a list of all of the images seen in an artwork (visual inventory); and identifying kinds of color, line, texture, shapes, and forms in the work. Children can select a piece of their own art work and tell why they like it, why they chose that subject, or how they made it. With guidance, children can search art books or online museum sites to pursue more information about questions generated by reviewing a particular work of art. Children can look at and compare illustrations in books illustrated by different illustrators (e.g., Jan Brett, Chris Van Allsburg, Eric Carle), and learn some of the vocabulary of art, such as line, color, and texture. Arts Connections Purposes and Meanings in the Arts 6.2: By the end of grade 4, students will investigate uses and meanings of examples of the arts in daily lives, homes, and communities. children’s Kindergarten adaptation: see 7.1 below Roles of Artists in Communities 7.1: By the end of grade 4, students will investigate how artists create their work; read about, view films about, or interview artists such as choreographers, dancers, composers, singers, instrumentalists, actors, storytellers, playwrights, illustrators, painters, sculptors, craftspeople, or architects. Kindergarten children will demonstrate their awareness of the arts in their daily lives and will be exposed to how professional art is created. Children can visit or see photographs of different styles of architecture, sculptures in local parks and museums; then discuss what they have visited or seen.
Drafting, Revising, and Exhibiting 4.1: By the end of grade 4, students will select a work or works created during the year and discuss them with a parent, classmate, or teacher, explaining how the work was made, and why it was chosen for discussion. 4.2: By the end of grade 4, students will select works for exhibition and work as a group to create a display. Children can choose personal art works to be used for display at home, in school, or in the community, accompanied by dictated labels or descriptions. Children can create a portable exhibition in the form of a big book of drawings and paintings that can be checked out and taken home. Critical Response 5.1: By the end of grade 4, in the course of making and viewing art, students will learn ways of discussing it, such as by making a list of all of the images seen in an artwork (visual inventory); and identifying kinds of color, line, texture, shapes, and forms in the work. Children can select a piece of their own art work and tell why they like it, why they chose that subject, or how they made it. With guidance, children can search art books or online museum sites to pursue more information about questions generated by reviewing a particular work of art. Children can look at and compare illustrations in books illustrated by different illustrators (e.g., Jan Brett, Chris Van Allsburg, Eric Carle), and learn some of the vocabulary of art, such as line, color, and texture. Arts Connections Purposes and Meanings in the Arts 6.2: By the end of grade 4, students will investigate uses and meanings of examples of the arts in children’s daily lives, homes, and communities. Kindergarten adaptation: see 7.1 below Roles of Artists in Communities 7.1: By the end of grade 4, students will investigate how artists create their work; read about, view films about, or interview artists such as choreographers, dancers, composers, singers, instrumentalists, actors, storytellers, playwrights, illustrators, painters, sculptors, craftspeople, or architects. Kindergarten children will demonstrate their awareness of the arts in their daily lives and will be exposed to how professional art is created. Children can visit or see photographs of different styles of architecture, sculptures in local parks and museums; then discuss what they have visited or seen.