Fifth Grade

Art education classes at the elementary level provide students with the opportunity for hands-on experience (art production), as well as the integration of art history, art criticism and aesthetics.  Through their artwork, students build skills in many areas, including self-expression and problem solving. 

Major themes around which the art program are centered are:

  • Experience in a wide variety of media including drawing, painting, weaving, ceramics, collage, assemblage, printmaking, photography, and computer imaging.

  • Integration of art and the regular classroom curriculum

  • Study of art forms from diverse cultures

  • Study of art history, including masters and how their work related to other art work of their time and culture

Program highlights:

  • Student artwork on display throughout the building

  • Off-campus art show at Leesburg Town Hall - January 26 - May 10

  • Student art work displayed at the Park View Cluster's Fine Arts Night - TBD

  • 5th grade yearbook designs voted on by the entire fifth grade class. The top five designs will be featured in the 2023-2024 yearbook.

Third Nine Weeks

Kindergarten

  • Students will use shapes and patterns to draw, paint and decorate a snowman in a snowglobe.

  • Students will learn collage and mixed-media techniques to assemble a scene of a town during a snow storm.

     

First Grade

·   Students will illustrate a wild creature by mixing features of 3+ animals, including a background habitat that uses clues from their features.

·  Students will weave a tabby weave using paper to create a paper blanket for a self-portrait.

Second Grade

  • Students will study ceramics and sculpt a pinch pot pet.

  • Students will use geometric and organic shapes to make a mixed media still life.    

Third Grade 

  • Students will study weaving and create a pouch, purse or pillow out of their finished weaving.

  • Students will use patterns and motifs to create a zentangle letter or shape showing positive and negative space.

Fourth Grade

  • Students will continue their study of perspective by drawing a person from an ant's eye view.

  • Students will learn about fiber arts, including how to weave a small basket.

Fifth Grade

  • Students will study Alexander Calder and create a self-supporting wire sculpture of a living thing.

  • Students will learn about fiber arts, including how to sew with a whipstitch to use on a pizza or emoji pillow.