My Garden Grows — Meredith Arcari Luciano

    Available to Grade(s): K , 1 , 2 , 3
    Program Can Serve: Visual Art
  
    Art Form: Visual Art
    Curriculum Focus: English
  
    Program Type: Both Grade Level and Arts/PE Program
    Integration Continuum Level: Alignment
  
    # of Visits: 2
    Length of Visit (Grade Level Program): 45 min
  
    Program Format: In-School Short Term Residency
    Meeting Method: Email
  
    Availability: All year
    Minimum # of Classrooms: 0
  
    Cost per Classroom (Arts/PE Program): $350
    Program Requires Prior Meeting: no
  
    Materials Arts Provider Provides: tempera paint, glue sticks, brushes, cups, 12x18 multi-colored construction paper, scissors, wax paper, heavyweight drawing paper and visual aid/ Eric Carle’s book The Tiny Seed
  
    Materials School Provides: pencils
  
    Space and/or Set Up Requirements for Program: table to set up paints
  
    Program Learning Objective: I can create observations from life experience and artwork seen in The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle about plant phases from seed to adult. I can create My Garden Grows composition using collage and painting techniques.
  
    Program Description (Grade Level Program): My Garden Grows lesson provides a natural link between observational skills exercised in both science and art. Students will merge their observations from life experience and artwork seen in The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle about plant phases from seed to adult. Students will create their own My Garden Grows composition using collage and painting techniques.
  
    Program Description (Arts/PE Program): My Garden Grows lesson provides a natural link between observational skills exercised in both science and art. Students will merge their observations from life experience and artwork seen in The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle about plant phases from seed to adult. Students will create their own My Garden Grows composition using collage and painting techniques.
  
    Additional Notes:
  
    Parent Engagement Opportunities: Can help hand out materials and assist in creation of students My Garden Grows composition.

    Core & National Art Standards:
    
    Grade K
  
    Grade K: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #1: With prompting and support, students ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (“The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle)
  
    Grade K: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work: Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
  
    Grade K: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work: Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.
  
    Grade 1
  
    Grade 1: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  
    Grade 1: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work: Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
  
    Grade 1: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work: Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
  
    Grade 2
  
    Grade 2: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
  
    Grade 2: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work: Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
  
    Grade 2: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work: Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
  
    Grade 3
  
    Grade 3: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
  
    Grade 3: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work: Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
  
    Grade 3: Visual Art: Creating: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work:Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
  
    Grade 5: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3.Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
  
    Grade 5: Visual Arts: Creating: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.
  
    Grade 5: Visual Arts: Creating: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.