Monica Ros School

In weekly art classes with the art teacher, first, second, and third grade students become confident expressing themselves through artistic media while building age-appropriate skills in drawing, painting, and sculpture. Beginning in the second semester, the art teacher visits the kindergarten class once a month to supplement the many classroom art projects that are done on a regular basis.

Whether they are learning about form and color in first grade, proportion and scale in second, or deeper levels of composition in third grade, students work with a variety of mediums such as sculpting clay, collage materials, watercolors, and acrylics. Projects often relate to science or social studies concepts that students are learning about in class. For example, second graders studying flowers in science might engage in an art project examining botanical prints and the flowers of Georgia O’Keefe, using acrylics or watercolors to create still life paintings of their own.

Interesting collaborations result between art and other special subjects such as Spanish. A third grade study of South American apilleras (fabric collages) in Spanish might be followed by an art project where students create their own apilleras out of felt and fabric.