Sally Song ILang

8/2014

Visual Arts
Grade 2
Ms. Sally Song


Visual Arts Class Objectives/ Aims:
G2 Visual Arts class at BIBA will help students develop life-long passion for arts. Students will develop a deeper understanding of art
making, process of art making, purpose of art, art history and how our daily lives are closely related to arts.

Learning Goals (California States Visual Arts Standards):
1. Understand repetition and balance in nature, environment and works of art
2. Identify the elements of art in nature, the environment and works of art focusing on line, color, shape/form, texture and space
3. Demonstrate beginning skills in basic tools and art-making processes.
4. Demonstrate beginning skill in oil pastel, watercolors and tempera
5. Depict the illusion of space by using overlapping shapes, relative size and placement
6. Paint a picture using warm and cool colors
7. Use bilateral or radial symmetry to create visual balance
8. Identify and discuss how art is used in events and celebrations in various cultures, past and present, including the use in their
own lives.
9. Use vocabulary to describe art objects from various time periods and cultures
10. Understand different types of art (prints, ceramics, paintings)

Visual Arts Curriculum Grade 2
Sally Song ILang
Revised: 8/2014

Course outline:
Art projects are designed to focus on understanding and learning process, not on the final artwork. Performance tasks may change
depending on different situations to offer students the best learning experiences and opportunities to develop their skills and
understanding. Art projects will include studying art history and influential artists, discussing works of art using arts specific
vocabulary (the elements of art and principles of design), creating an original work of art using various materials, tools and medium,
expressing personal thoughts and emotions through artwork, and evaluating students own work and peers work.
Skills/
Understanding
Performance Tasks Performance Indicators
Students will be able to..
Color
(Warm/ Cool Color)
Warm up 10 minutes drawing activity
Emotional Flower
- identify what are warm/ cool colors
- express how they feel when they see warm/ cool colors
- apply warm/ cool colors to create original work of art Patterned Matryoshka Dolls
Warm/Cool color Landscape
Line/ Pattern
(Repetition)
Patterned Matroyshka Dolls - make patterns using repeated shapes
- identify different types of shapes and lines
- manipulate a pen (a marker) and a pencil properly

Chinese New Year Dragon in
movement
Poinsettia Art
3D Form
Clay Pinch/ Coil
Paper Mache
(modeling)
Pumpkin Pinch Pot -explain how shapes and form are different
-apply different techniques to create 3D sculpture Paper Mache Animal Modeling
Coil pot or Slab tray
Weaving
Visual Arts Curriculum Grade 2
Sally Song ILang
Revised: 8/2014

Artwork/ artists or
artifacts from other
culture and country
Picasso Self- Portrait - compare and contrast various artwork and artists from different
time periods and cultures
- describe a work of art using art specific vocabulary (elements of
arts and principles of design)
- apply artists painting/ drawing styles to create their own original
work of art
Patterned Matryoshka Dolls
Van Gogh Still Life
Perspective (Relative
Sizes)
Tree Landscape - create illusion of space in 2D picture plane
- describe how size of objects change in different picture plane
(background, middle ground and foreground)
- analyze how artists created and used perspective in their work and
explain why
Painting Technique

Winter Bird -develop the basic painting techniques
Poinsettia Art
Tree Landscape
Picasso Self- Portrait
Drawing Technique Patterned Matryoshka Dolls -develop the basic drawing techniques
Chinese New Year Dragon in
movement
Van Gogh Still Life
Texture Winter Bird - use different tools to create different textures
- identify different textures
Visual Arts Curriculum Grade 2
Sally Song ILang
Revised: 8/2014

- describe what texture is
Collage Patterned Matryoshka Dolls

- improve higher level of craftsmanship
- use different materials and medium to make collages

Winter Bird
Tree Landscape
Symmetrical Alien
Balance/ Movement
Printmaking
Chinese New Year Dragon in
movement

-connect local culture to art making practice
-discuss how balance/ movement is used in artwork
-demonstrate understanding of the principles of design (balance and
movement) in their original artwork and express their own
thoughts and emotion
-apply printmaking skills to create artwork
Literature Based Art Story needs to be selected -understand how literature and art are connected
-connect students own emotions, opinions and experiences to art
making practices
Value Van Gogh Still Life

-begin to demonstrate shading drawing techniques
-apply shading techniques to show value and depict 2D shape as 3D
form
-explain why shading/value technique is used in art
Symmetry Symmetrical Alien -apply simple folding and cutting skills to make symmetrical
shapes
-explain the concept of symmetry
Visual Arts Curriculum Grade 2
Sally Song ILang
Revised: 8/2014

Classroom Rules:
1. Have a good attitude (Rigor, Relationships, Respect, Responsibility)
2. Treat each other with respect (Respect, Relationship, Responsibility)
3. Take care of class materials (Respect, Relationship, Responsibility)
4. Do your best (Responsibility, Rigor)

10 Student Learner Outcomes:
Reflective, Balanced, Open-minded, Principled, Knowledgeable, Caring, and as Inquirers, Thinkers, Risk-takers and Communicators

Contact:
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at ssong@bibachina.org