I'm Allison Pollison and am honored to have been given the opportunity to continue guiding, teaching, and learning from your children.  Every year is more exciting and creative than the last. (For more about me, click here.)   (to email me click here)

I believe in providing my students with an awareness of artists throughout history so the Lakes students may expect to see work by such greats as Piet Mondrian, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Henri Matisse (to name a few).   (Link to artist info. at Artchives.com, click here.)

To check out what's going on in our art room, click here for Art Room Happenings.

I am also including projects that will engage the children in cultural and historical art such as Cave Art, Ancient Egyptian Art, or Ancient Chinese Art.  (click here for Chinese Warrior powerpoint presentation)  It’s wonderfully exciting to experience the how and why of modern and ancient culture through hands-on art projects.  (Click here for museum links.)  

It is my sincere hope that our integrated curriculum, with an emphasis on critical thinking skills, will excite the children and instill sparks of creativity and imagination that will carry over into all aspects of their lives.   (To visit the Artsonia.com kids museum site, click here.)

Some experiences your children may have by grade level are:

Kindergarten:    lines, shapes, coloring, outlining, tracing, cutting, overlapping, gluing, painting, primary colors, Piet Mondrian, Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat's Dots, and cave art

First Grade:   review past year, texture, patterns, secondary colors, clay modeling, drawing, painting, collage, Pop Art, Andy Warhol, Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, and Ancient Egypt

Second Grade:    review past years, warm/cool colors, symmetry, portraiture, monoprinting, Cubism, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, dinosaurs, Day of the Dead, and Ancient Greece.

Third Grade:  review past years, value, balance, three-dimensional drawing, perspective, landscapes, printmaking, clay, Georgia O'Keeffe, , and Medieval Art.

Fourth Grade:   review past years (elements of art - value, shape, color, line, texture, form, space), proportion, postive/negative space, weaving, 3-dimensional art using clay, paper-mâché or paris craft, Keith Haring, Native American Art, and Ancient Chinese warriors

To visit the NJ State Standards web site click here.   To see the Art Standards, click here

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