In Art, students K-5th learn about how to create beautiful art based on prior knowledge and new concepts, as well as how to feel good about their unique God given qualities on both the inside and outside. With brain based learning concepts, students learn with hand gestures that Visual Arts is an expression of what we think, see, and/or feel using pictures to create a message. Gardner’s Multiple intelligences activities engage students at all levels to help them express themselves in Visual Arts, with special emphasis on linguistics, logical-mathematical, musical, and spatial abilities.

Kindergarten-1st Grade

• Based on the book Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg, students explored how making a mistake is an opportunity to create something beautiful by using your imagination and creativity. Students created beautiful “Apple and Leaf” projects using colored pencils without an eraser. For instance, a slip with a pencil could be turned into a caterpillar on the leaf.
• All about lines. Not only do lines create letters and numbers, they are used to create pictures to help share a message. Students brainstormed about all different types of lines to use for their artwork, including horizontal, vertical, diagonal, dotted, swirly, wavy, zigzag and more.

Grades 2nd-5th

• Students created beautiful self portraits using new double sided mirrors! While exploring proportion, background colors, landscape vs. portrait orientation, and facial features, students discovered similarities and differences in each other. God has a different path for each of us, just as each of us look differently on the outside; we each have a different journey designed by God. God is the greatest artist of all for he created this world and each one of us.

Grades 4th-5th

• Students made personal connections with how height, distance, and eye sight can change perception. From video games, staircases, hallways, and road trips, students drew on prior knowledge to conceptualize what a vanishing point really is. With a ruler and fundamental techniques, students created their own vanishing points masterpieces.