October 2022
1st grade: Students will learn about the primary and secondary colors, and how we make secondary colors.
Primary colors are: red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors are: green, orange, and purple
Students will create a mixed media design, incorporating primary and secondary colors.
2nd grade: Students will learn about complementary colors.
Complementary colors are colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel.
red/green, blue/orange, yellow/purple.
Students will create complementary color cupcakes in the style similar to below.
3rd grade: Students will learn about warm and cool colors.
Warm colors: red, orange, and yellow - give the feeling of warmth.
Cool colors: blue, green, and purple - give the feeling of cool.
Students will create a peacock painting using warm and cool colors.
4th grade: Students will learn about analogous colors. These are colors located next to each other on the color wheel, for ex: yellow, yellow-green, green or violet, red-violet, red.
Students will create fracture heart drawing incorporating the analogous colors.
5th grade: Students will be studying shades and tints and start the process of creating realistic paintings.
Shades - is adding black to a color.
Tint - is adding white to a color.
Students will create an scenery on craft sticks applying shades and tints.
