Community
Students will investigate how artists influence and are influenced by their surrounding communities. They will discover what is valued within a community through examination of art. Through exploration and creation of art as a community, students will understand the role they have as artists within their own community. ​
A Day at School
Objectives: We will…
  • understand that everyone has different school experiences
  • know how daily life experiences shape our personalities and character
  • be able to express a life experience through art

    Students will hear the story What a Great Day at School by Jill Zander  and think about the questions: 
    How do you get to school?
    What do you see on your way to and from school?
    What does lunchtime look and sound like? What do you do at music, PE and art or recess?
    What do you do in your classroom with your classmates?
    What do you do when you get home from school each day? 
    Students then create an artwork depicting a daily life experience at school (riding the bus to school, playing on the playground, your favorite special area, lunchtime in the cafeteria). 
Houses in Our Community
Objectives: We will…
  • understand communities where we live are based on a grid and have a corresponding map
  • know how to use materials safely and properly
  • be able to engage collaboratively to create a 3D community on top of a local map 

Activity: 
Show students different types of city/town map images of our city. Then discuss the types of buildings you find in a community.
Discuss how artists/architects design buildings 
What colors do you see on buildings?
Do you see windows, doors, awnings, business signs?  Students will read the book Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

Students will use the 3D objects to each create a type of building they can find in their community. Media to use can be: paper, tissue, cardboard, beads, fabric
Once the buildings are finished each table will then assemble their community on top of the map

Memory
In this unit, students will explore the theme of memory. Students will understand how memories can be created, preserved and shared through art. An investigation into color and expression of feelings through color will allow students to further express the emotion held within memories.
Sunset Memories
Objectives: We will know why artists use images to capture memories. We will be able to create watercolor wash using several colors. 

We began by looking at a variety of sunset/sunrise pictures and discussed why people take pictures of them. We then looked at Claude Monet's painting and how we can tell what time of day it was when he painted the pictures by the colors he used.
​We then created a watercolor wash using several colors, that depicted a sunset. Some students added an additional layer of a silhouetted scene, after the paint was dry.
Making an Art Memory: Color Mixing
Objectives: We will…
- be able to use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.  
- be able to explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design. 
- be able to use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.  

Students first experimented with mixing colors using Model Magic Air Dry Clay.
Teacher then read the color mixing story, Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and had students predict (using their memory) what colors would be created when two colors were mixed. 

History
Students will investigate how history is documented and preserved through art in this unit. Through an exploration of various cultures, students will understand how and why art was created to record what that culture values. While examining and creating ways of documenting personal history, students will discover how art can preserve for future generations what they value from their own past and present.

Environment
This unit will allow students to explore their surrounding environments, both natural and personal. They will discover how an environment influences an artist’s work and how artists can work collaboratively with nature. Students will explore how natural materials from their environment can be used to create art.