ART PROGRAM

ANIMALS

STAGE ES1
OUTCOMES VAES1.1
VAES1.2
VAES1.3
INDICATORS - learn to focus on subject matter
- learn to explore characteristics of things
- learn about who artists are and what they make
SUBJECT ANIMALS
MATTER
FORMS Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
RESOURCES RESOURCES: Dictionaries, Picture books, Wooden Cat
Statue, Zines, Ornithological pictures,
MATERIALS: oil pastels, edicol dyes, watercolours, brushes
Sponge brushes, spray paints, large screws,
Wire, hot glue gun, artline pens, collage
material – feathers, coloured paper, skeleton leaves
APPRECIATION  talks about the characteristics of things
 discusses the qualities of the different media
 identifies colours, shapes and textures
PERSPECTIVES Literacy
LINKS HSIE
ASSESSMENT Students were able to:
 represent qualities of the subject matter
 manipulate different media
 talk about what they had done
LEARNING EXPERIENCES

STAGE: ES1
SUBJECT MATTER: ANIMALS

1. THE CAT Duration: Three Lessons

Students will-
- Look at the works of Paul Klee and Henri Rousseau in their depiction
of animals
- View a wooden statue of a cat and identify the features that make it a
cat
- Verbalise the parts of the cat incl. the shape of its eyes, its claws, the
stripes on the cat and that it has four legs but only two may be seen at
times
- Use black oil pastel on long sheets of artpaper to draw the cat
- Select other colours that are on the actual cat and render details in
those colours
- Continue to fill the cat in the appropriate colours
- Discuss the sounds a cat makes eg. meow, psss, hssss. And write one of
those sounds emitting from the cats mouth
- Use green edicol and sponge brushes to put in a background of grass

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

2. BIRD ZINE Duration: Five Lessons

Students will-
- Look at various Zines supplied by the teacher
- Discuss the zine coming from ‘magazine’
- Talk about creating a visual story about birds
- View a number of bird pictures taken from an ornithological text
- Use a folded zine from A3 artpaper learning the correct way to open a
book and how to change format from an upright book to a sideways
book
- Compose a cover title that has the word ‘bird ‘ in it. Eg. The Birds
Nest, Baby Bird, Fly Away Bird
- Write their title in bubble writing
 - Select one of the bird drawings to illustrate the cover working in artline
and watercolour
- Draw a bird in flight on the next double page again using the bird
pictures and working in artline and watercolour
- Collage up to 3 feathers on the bird
- Continue in the same manner working on birds in their nests with
collaged strips of twig coloured paper and birds on a branch collaging
skeleton leaves onto the tree
- Discuss the need for text and if they would like to include any, even
using noises as the sole text
- Use the last single page to draw a last bird and write their (the authors)
name in bubble writing
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Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

3. TRAIL OF ANTS Duration: Two Lessons

Students will-
- discuss the properties of insects and of ants
- use wire, large screws and the teacher with a hot glue gun to make a
trail of ants
- make an appropriate amount of legs and include antenna (wire will be
soft enough to be manipulated easily and be pre cut)
- add pipe cleaners to stabilise the structure
- lay the ants out in a trail in the classroom
- discuss the different types of animals they have rendered and the media
used

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment