Elementary Art Curriculum
Each student in grades one through five has art one forty-five minute period per week. It’s highly recommended that they wear old clothes and shoes on that day since we occasionally use materials that stain clothing.
Office hours are before school Mondays and Fridays starting at 8:00 unless I have a meeting, and after school on Mondays and Thursdays until 3:45 PM. This time is set-aside for children who work slowly, miss an art class or need extra help on an art project. This is also the time students can sign out materials to work on school projects at home (although I won’t let them take home extremely messy things or dangerous items without signed notes from parents).
We’re now using the new elementary art curriculum we just completed this fall based on the National Visual Art Standards. The curriculum is based on art production, art history, art criticism and aesthetics and interdisciplinary connections. This dovetails perfectly with the new emphasis in the district across the board on reading and writing. I often read to the students and discuss what I read, and part of the aesthetics and criticism component of the new curriculum lends itself beautifully to writing. If you’d like to see a copy of the new curriculum, you can click on the new link on the web site and check it out.
Lainee Specter
Art Teacher
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