Lesson one

Crispus Attucks Recreation Center

Stephanie McKee, Cinnamon Triano, Matthew Barry

February 22nd, 2010 (Week one)

*This semester, we will focus on one element of art per week

Week 1 -7: Elements, Week 8-10: Final Project

Week 1: Color

Week 2: Value

Week 3: Line

Week 4: Shape

Week 5: Form

Week 6:Texture

Week 7: Space

Title: Color is Cool!

Project: Students will create portfolios to hold their artwork for the semester. They will decorate the cover of their portfolio with magazine clippings of one color of their choice.

Goal:

-Introductions, learn names

-Introduce the elements of art

-color recognition

-create portfolio that can hold all their work for the year

Materials:

-nametags

-portfolios

-box

-magazines

-scissors

-glue

-modgepodge (to seal on top of

-color wheel

-markers

-poster of the elements of art

set up:

-put out journals

-cut up colored construction paper

Timeline:

-sit down, write your name on your name tag

-write in journal

-introduce ourselves and this our art class for the rest of semester

-ask each student to share their name and journal

-collect journal after they've shared (explain that we'll write back every week)

-talk about color!

-cinnamon talks about primary

-matt - secondary

-steph - choose colore. write name on portfolio in that color.

find colors in magazines, cut out and paste on folder

-work on cutting and pasting for 20 minutes

-present

-we'll collect portfolios

Journal Question: What did you do during the snowstorm?

(because Stephanie currently has all the journals, she will write this weeks question in them all)