Art Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Secular Fifth Grade

Fine Arts activities are designed to encourage the creative abilities of the child and to promote the development of fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.

• Continue to develop a basic music vocabulary.
• Demonstrate dynamics and tempo.
• Listen to and sing various types of music: patriotic, folk, seasonal, spirituals.
• Continue to improve coordination and express creativity through motions that keep time with music.
• Develop an ability to understand a song’s message.
• Repeat rhythmic patterns using clapping or instruments.
• Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, eighth note/rest.
• Understand the meaning of a time signature in music.
• Clap a rhythm pattern using a given time signature.
• Learn the value of notes and rests.
• Divide musical beats into measures.
• Use musical notes to write the rhythm of a song.
• Write a nursery rhyme and set it to a tune.
• Sing a song about bones and muscles.
• Create a rhythmic composition.
• Continue to develop a basic art vocabulary.
• Follow instructions, and complete a drawing.
• Draw objects from different perspectives.
• Understand the concept of symmetry and create symmetrical designs.
• Continue to develop small motor skills through cutting, gluing, painting, and folding.
• Use the color wheel to identify and use primary, secondary, and complementary colors.
• Identify and use color contrast.
• Identify and use warm and cool colors.
• Draw a fictional character based on a written description.
• Identify and use texture.
• Paint in the style of Pointillism.
• Look at and appreciate various works of art.
• Interpret art.
• Compare art from various cultures.
• Use various techniques and mediums to create original art.
  • mosaic
  • origami
  • suminagashi
  • tangle drawing
  • op art
  • abstract drawing
  • ink and wash
• Make a diorama.
• Learn about a famous artist and create art in his style.
• Make pottery.
• Make a three-dimensional model.
• Demonstrate the drawing technique of foreshortening.
• Make a snow globe.
• Create a mobile.