To explore different kinds of lines and distinguish shape from line.

To use the eyes to measure distance and to calculate space.

To define and identify shapes and to form shapes by making a line design

To identify and discuss different kinds of repeating lines and shapes in nature

To combine lines and shapes to form man-made patterns

To assume a variety of action poses, and to examine relative positions of body parts during the pose

To draw action poses from memory

To identify patterns in the immediate area and to record them

To complete patterns by drawing repeating shapes and lines

To draw family members (felt markers, crayons, or colored pencils)

To practice visual memory and visual perception

To study how elements (motifs) repeat to form a pattern

To examine patterns on paper and cloth

To learn how to make a brick pattern

To observe poses and draw them from memory

To identify repeating shapes and lines in student work

To draw a figure in an interesting pose, incorporating pattern into the clothing and the background (colored felt markers)

To draw a long line intersecting at various points: identify and color shapes

To combine styrofoam stamps and paper edge printing to make a picture of flowers and bulrushes (black tempera paint or block printing ink)

To practice keen observation and visual memory

To use the eyes to measure distance and to calculate space

To understand and apply techniques of modeling with dough

To draw a picture from the imagination: Auntie's New Baby

To model a person (flour and salt dough)

To understand that a contour drawing is a drawing of the edges of an object

To practice doing blind contour drawing and peeking contour drawing

To discuss how contour drawing helps us to learn to see

To explore the surface of a leaf using the sense of touch

To transfer tactile information into a visual image

To produce sensitive, expressive lines by doing contour drawing

To practice visual discrimination skills.

To create a painting of a flower or flowers using the peeking contour drawing method (oil pastel, felt marker)

To draw and cut out a peeking contour of a branch and leaves and to complete a composition of leaves on a branch

To draw a picture from the imagination: Big Box

To observe how overlapping shows near and far

To learn how to draw the overlapping object first and then the objects that are behind

To see that height on a page can show near and far

To see that relative sizes of objects on a page can show near and far

To make an overlapping shapes design to reinforce how overlapping creates depth (paper shapes)

To make a painting of an animal against a background of vegetation (oil pastel and felt marker)

To provide an opportunity to apply the principles of near and far in a composition (pencil)

To define "texture" as "the way something feels when we touch it."

To find examples of different textures among common objects, and to describe them with words like rough, coarse, bumpy, ridgy, fuzzy, shiny

To think of a variety of texture words to describe certain fruits and vegetables

To take pencil rubbings of a variety of textures

To draw a full-length figure using the entire space on a page

To learn how to make a pattern and cut cloth from it

To learn how to braid and crimp wool hair

To make a texture doll (oil pastel, cloth, wool, decorating materials)

To keep a personal record of methods used in making the texture doll

To describe and record all the various textures used on the doll

To discuss the effect of colors used, either blending or contrasting

To develop the imagination by forming visual images from hearing a story

To understand the terms "slip," "score," "coil," and "wedge."

To practice the coil method of handbuilding with clay

To practice the slab method of handbuilding with clay

To draw a picture from hearing a story: Rosalind's New Shoes

To build a coil pot in conjunction with listening to the story, Billy's Big Mistake