Second grade art
Second grade artists explore the following artistic skills, techniques, concepts, and habits :
- Identify organic and geometric shapes
- Expand on use of line
- Review line texture and pattern
- Expand on painting techniques including watercolors, wet-on-wet technique
- Identify color groups: primary, secondary, neutral, warm and cool
- Create a basic paper weaving
- Use printmaking techniques
- Express moods in art: facial expressions
- Expand on shape transformation in drawing
- Demonstrate distance in art by object placement, size, and overlapping
- Identify and create a still-life drawing or painting
- Distinguish between 2D and 3D artwork
- Expand on clay techniques such as coil, pinch, and slab
- Understand negative and positive space
- Connect art and literature
- Connect art to other subjects and their own lives
- Explore art from different cultures and time periods
- Identify Abstract art and its characteristics