“Summer Solstice”

Porcelain and acrylic

Bully Prevention

Ceramics “Call to Action”

5th Grade Learning Target
“Call to Action Figures”

I Can:
Use clay to sculpt a human who is expressing a “call to action” on a social justice issue of my choice.

Essential Questions
How can the artist communicate an idea or feeling through the creation of human figures?

1st Grade Earth Art

1st Grade Learning Target:
I can make my own Earth Art, inspired by artist Andy Goldsworthy, by going outside and finding objects from nature to make patterns and sculptures with.

Essential Quesitons:
How is a pattern created?
What is an organic shape?

Jeffco Elementary Art Show at Red Rocks Community College

2nd Grade Ancestral Self Portraits

• I can research and examine personal heritage to create an ancestral self portrait.
• I can explore my personal culture through conversations with family using questionnaire.
• I can analyze artwork by discussing with artful thinking.
• I can combine my understanding of facial proportions with family information with interesting compositional choices.
• I can understand and demonstrate proportion through sketching.
• I can create imagery/symbols about answers from questionnaire.
• I can use pencil to appropriate and map out final work.
• I can use watercolor techniques to inform artwork.
• I can use colored pencil and Sharpie techniques to inform artwork.
• I can use additional materials and technology to inform artwork.

Health and Wellness Warriors Photos

5th Grade Art by Accident

5th Grade Learning Target
“Art by Accident”

I Can:
Use India ink to transform my watercolor “mistakes” and “happy accidents” into something beautiful! I will Apply the Elements  of Art and Principles of Design to solve this visual problem.

Essential Questions
How do artists work with composition in the studio?
How does critique work the brain and motivate problem solving abilities when evaluating art?

4th Grade Abstract Paintings

4th Grade
Tool Inventions for Abstract Art

I Can:
Use the tool I invented to create an abstract work of art. I will change the Elements of Art in my work as well as use the following methods of abstraction: simplify, exaggerate, rearrange.

Essential Questions:
Why might an artist use abstraction?
What is your subject? Which method(s) of abstraction did you use?

2nd Grade Healthy Foods Still Life

2nd Grade Art
“My Favorite Healthy Meal” Still Life

Prospect Valley is a Healthy School (supported by Jeffco Healthy Schools), and we strive to make as many nutritious choices as possible. In Art, 2nd graders used the concept of the Still Life (an arrangement of objects, either natural or manmade) to express why eating healthy is important, how we can make balanced choices for our meals, and hopefully  inspire others to do the same.

2nd Grade Learning Target
“My Favorite Healthy Meal” Still Life

I Can:
Draw a Still Life of my favorite healthy meal, including at least one thing from each of the following food groups: Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Proteins,  and Dairy.
I will also use overlapping shapes and a horizon line.

Essential Questions

What everyday objects might  be seen in a still life?
What might be known about the artist by looking at this Still Life?
What shapes might you use to create this object?
Where do you see overlapping in this image?