Elementary Visual Art
Elementary Visual Art
Classroom Resources
Quick Classroom Visuals
Powerpoint Samples
Art Resources Lending Library
Connect! Communicate! Viewing & Responding to Art...
Classroom Routines
Online Lesson Ideas & Resources
Student Art Labels
Templates
Available in Schools
ArtsSmarts & Artist-in-Schools Residency Program
Art Resources in our Schools
ARTful Hours
K-2 ARTful Hour
Gr. 3-5 ARTful Hour
Art Supplies
Museum & Gallery Sites
Art Education Associations
Picture Books & Illustrators
Copies of 3-5 handouts from past sessions:
2014-15 School Year
Fall 2014
Exploring Value... mixing tints and shades (value chart); mixing tints to create a background (landscape); creating gradations of value using shading, stippling, hatching & cross-hatching
Winter 2015
Spring 2015
2013-14 School Year
Sept. 2013
Sketchbooks, Book-binding with a twig, Observational Drawing,
Intro to Colour Wheel,
Intro to some Printmaking
Feb. 2014
HEC/SJEC
Radial Symmetry & Painting Snowflakes; Gesture Drawing;
Foil Figure Sculptures;
Silhouette Figures Using Text; Bulletin Board Displays that 'teach'
Nov. 2013 HEC
Kinds of Lines, Patterns with Seasonal Symbol, Tree Ornament with Marker/Line; Ted Harrison & Collaborative Class Painting (colour-matching & mixing)
April 2014
HEC/SJEC
"Visual Arts Resource Binders K-8"
Available on the Portal
Sampling of Lessons:
Gr. 3 - Cut-Paper Landscape
Gr. 4 - Non-Objective Painting
Gr. 5 - Matisse Portrait
Nov. 2013 SJEC
Kinds of Lines, Intro. to 'Zentangles' & Seasonal Symbol, Tree Ornament with Marker/Line; Ted Harrison & Abstract Landscapes with Marker
April 2013
SSEC
Book-binding sketchbooks with a twig, Intro to Colour Wheel,
'Cut-Paper Landscape" from Gr. 3 "Visual Arts Resource Binders K-8"
available on Portal
Nov. 2013 HEC/SJEC
Communicate: Stategies to start students talking about their art and their art-making process...
2012-13 School Year
Sept. 2012
Pumpkins - Line, Shape, Distance Techniques & Still Life with Oil Pastel
Nov. 2012
Greeting Card (watercolour); Winter
landscape (birch trees); Printmaking - poinsettias
Jan. 2013
Sequential Planning... Shape! (shape, value & abstract snowman)
May 2013
3D Works... 'HeART House' magnets; Radial Symmetry/Relief Design; Intro to Weaving
2011-12 School Year
Sept. 2011
Sketchbooks, Portfolios & Start with Art!
Nov. 2011
Working with Watercolour
Jan. 2012
Intro. to Observational Drawing
March 2012
Various Media with Earth Day themes
MAY 2012
Inspired by Famous Artists:
Paul Klee &(Crayon/Tissue Paper); Still Life Flowers with Oil Pastel; Piet Mondrian & Collage
2010-11 School Year
Nov. 2010
Intro. to Dist. 6 Elementary School's Online Art Gallery
Jan. 2010
Online Lesson Sources
& "Let it Snow"
(fingerprints, gesture drawing & collaborative works)
Mar. 2011
Connecting with Social Studies
May 2011
Flowers (warm & cool), Silhouettes, Marker relief & scrapbooks
2009-10 School Year
Sept. 2009
Autumn Inspiration
Nov. 2009
Intro. to Printmaking
Jan. 2010
Intro. to Watercolour
March 2010
Maud Lewis & Folk Art
May 2010
Art Trading Cards