Kindergarten Art

Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
* Students know the difference between materials, techniques and processes.
* Students describe how different materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.
* Students use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories.
* Students use art materials and tools insafe and responsible manner.
Using knowledge of structures and functions
* Students know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas.
* Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses.
* Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas.
Choosing andevaluating a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas
* Students explore and understand prospective content for works of art.
* Students select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning.
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
* Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures
*Students identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
* Students demonstrate how history, culture and the visual arts can influence each other in making and studying works of art.
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their [a student's own] work and the work of others
* Students understand that there are variouspurposes for creating works of visual art.
* Students describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks.
* Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks.
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
* Students understand and use similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other artsdisciplines.
* Students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum
Dealing With Criticism
* When a student criticizes their own work, ask them what they DO like in it.
* Encourage them to find something positive.
* Involve them in a positive critique of the work.
* What would you have done differently?
* Do you think you couldchange the way you did that the next time?
HOW TO LOOK AT ART
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The following is a guideline containing four basic components or stages of looking at art as suggested by art educator Edmund B. Feldman. The questions can be used to provoke curiousity and inquiry and encourage active student participation ... and to help students better understand and share their feelings on a work or works ofart.

DESCRIPTION
* Describe what you see.
* Describe the artist's use of color. How many colors have been used?
* How has the artist applied the paint?
* Describe the texture.
* Describe the lines in the work.
* What kinds of shapes do you see?
ANALYSIS
* Is your eye drawn to any particular area of the painting?
* Is there an element that stands out inthe composition?
* Is the composition balanced?
* Does the work make you think of movement? How does the artist show movement?
* Does the painting look flat or does it give a feeling of depth or space?
* Where might the artist have stood while painting this picture?
INTERPRETATION
* What kind of mood or feeling do you get from the painting?
* If you could imagineyourself within the painting, how would you feel?
* What sounds would you hear?
* Why do you think the artist choose this particular subject to paint?
* What part of the landscape, building, person, animal etc. most interested the artist? Why do you think so?
JUDGEMENT
* Find an interesting painting. Why is it interesting to you?
* What do you like or dislike about the...