South Kingstown Preschool at Peace Dale Elementary

The kindergarten art curriculum is designed around the understanding that kindergarten students are developing artists. Lessons are open ended, offering guided exploration to promote discovery and imagination.  Creativity is fostered to encourage personal expression. Students begin to learn that their artwork can communicate an intended meaning, expressing a variety of ideas, subjects, or emotions.  Lessons are designed to stimulate reflective thinking and encourage sharing and discussion about artwork. Students learn that their artwork has value and meaning. They learn to value the artwork of others and begin to understand it'smeaning as well.

To encourage skill development, students are introduced to and experiment with a variety of processes, techniques, and media.  This introduction to a variety of processes, techniques, and media will provide a foundation for future lessons and promote confidence in communicating visually through their artwork.  

Finally, the South Kingstown Kindergarten Art Curriculum is a dynamic and integrated part of the whole school environment, promoting connections to the classroom through shared lessons and displaying student artwork.  The creativeand analytical nature of art provides strength to the education of the whole child.

Portfolios/

Self Portraits

What you like to do.

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How to use materials/

Exploring drawing & painting tools

Markers, Crayons,

Oil crayons,

Tempera paint

Brushes

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Primaries make green, orange, violet

Painting a Rainbow

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Painting a collection of fruits and vegetables

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Creating Faces with Feelings

Cutting, Organizing and gluing shapes

Collage

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Hats and Headpieces/

Patterns with geometric shapes

Cutting, planning and gluing shapes

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Sketch Books/

Family Portraits

Sharing ideas about families

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Communicating

Feelings/ Lines express feelings

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Using warm & cool colors to communicate ideas

Warm Sun

Cool snowflakes

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Embellishments Cutting Tearing and Gluing

/Collage

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Printed Vests/ Printed Patterns

Using printing blocks to create symmetrical plans

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Making Light and Dark Colors Painting shapes

Exploring contrast

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Package design Folding flat shapes to create a solid shape

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Jewelry Design/

Patterns/ Mixing colors/

Using Model magic to form flat and solid shapes

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Textures

Favorite Foods

Painting and cutting fruits and vegetables

Planning a collage

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Lines & Shapes Using two colors Using two brushes

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Looking Closely at and drawing dinosaur replicas

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Collecting textures/ Rubbing textures

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Experimenting with clay/ Textured  and

sculpture of stacked solid shapes

Designing a playground structure

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Celebrations Drawing favorite celebrations

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Organizing Favorites Shapes

Line  making  to create favorite shapes

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Looking closely and drawing observations of faces

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Animal textures/ Texture rubbing collage

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Modeling with clay/

Creating an opened free form sculpture

Designing a playground structure

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First Steps Drawing Memories of First Steps

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Looking closely at and drawing observations of solid shapes

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Creating a clay container

Making a functional art work

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Human figures

Drawing the human figure in action on a playground

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Looking at playgrounds/ Creating a paper playground structure

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Drawing the figure

taking a first step

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Drawing a playground /

Favorite playground equipment

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Playground construction/

Playground equipment from clay

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