PYP+Calendar

**Unit One**

 * Kindergarten Unit One -** **Who We Are:** **We Are Family**

Members of a family have rights and responsibilities that help the family to function. Form, function, responsibility
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Who we are: Family
 * K Art- **
 * A Calming Place: Identify and apply vertical and horizontal lines
 * Houses in the Sunset: Identify geometric shapes
 * Self Portrait: Use free-form shapes, and apply the concept of balance
 * Colors: Warm and cold color families
 * Families of Birds: Textures, collage, shapes that make a bird

** K Spanish ** **Central Idea:** Identification of our personal, family and cultural characteristics contributes to a better self concept and social interaction **Key Concepts:** Form, function, connection,change

Human connections enrich our lives and require nurturing in order to develop and maintain. Function, responsibility, reflection Why we need friends; how can we make and keep friends
 * 1st Grade Unit One - Who We Are: Friends**
 * Who We Are**
 * Dates:** 9/8 - 10/21
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Who We Are: Friends __Theme I: Colors, Lines, Shapes, Patterns and Symbols__ Class Exercises focus on LINES and SHAPES Book: Do you want to Be My Friend?
 * 1st Art- **
 * Create a Rainbow World
 * This is My Favorite Activity”
 * Illustrating the Meaning of Friendship
 * Shapes that show my body, playing or working
 * VTS: Jacob Lawrence


 * 2nd Grade Unit One - Who We Are: Community**
 * Who We Are**
 * Dates:** 9/12 - 10/28
 * Central Idea:** Personal choices have consequences that affect different communities.
 * Key Concepts:** Form, Change, Responsibility
 * Lines o****f Inquiry:** The communities we belong to; the roles of different community members; how our classroom functions as a community: our individual responsibilities as citizens; how our personal choices impact our community

Who We Are: Communities __Theme I: Colors, Shapes, Patterns and Symbols__ Class Exercises focus on LINE Qualities and geometric vs. Free-form SHAPES
 * 2nd Art- **
 * Make Good Choices Body Collage Mural
 * Caring Hands
 * A Group of People working together

People are consumers and make choices based on many factors form, perspective, responsibility
 * 3rd Unit One -** **Who We Are:** **Consumers**
 * Dates:9/12-10/28**
 * Central Idea:**
 * Key Concepts:**

Sharing The Planet: Consumers __Theme I: Dominance in Design__
 * 3rd Art- **
 * Design, message, and advertisment
 * Design an Eye Catching Poster for a park or a zoo

Sharing The Planet: Air __Theme I: Perspective__ Point of View Study, Art Concept: Front, Side, Back and Overhead
 * 4th Unit One - How the World Works**
 * Dates: 9/19/11**
 * Central Idea: Air is neccessary and used by living things.**
 * Key Concepts: Form, Function, Reflection**
 * Lines of Inquiry:** Scientific air experiments, bubble festival,
 * 4th Art- **
 * The World I See From Up-Above
 * Messages From Hot Air Balloon

**5th Art (**relate to Garden and social responsibilties) __Theme I: Earth Art__ Observation Drawing of An Object Using Blended Values Create Earth Art- use only materails from nature to create a sculpture
 * 5th Unit One -** How the World Works: People and the Environment
 * Dates:** 9/6/11 - 10/6/11
 * Central Idea:** Our relationship with the natural world differs from person to person.
 * Key Concepts:** Perspective & Function
 * Artist to study- Andy Goldsworthy- Rivers and Tide

**Unit Two**
Rural and Urban
 * Kindergarten Unit Two -**
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 * K Art- **
 * Pumpkin Patch: Perspective, Overlapping
 * The Beats of the City: Abstract Art
 * Farm Animals: Sheeps, Horses, Pigs, Ducks and Cows


 * 1st Unit Two -** Where We Are in Place and Time: Come Play with Me!
 * Dates:** 10/24 - 12/9
 * Central Idea:** Children's games and toys change over time and from place to place.
 * Key Concepts:** Form, Change, Connection
 * Lines of Inquiry:** Different types of games and toys; How games and toys have changed over time; Games and toys from around the world

** 1st grade Art ** Where We Are in Place and Time: Come Play with Me!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__ Imagination : __** Class Exercises focus on Composition

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Material: mixed media, Art Concept: 2-D shapes vs. 3-D shapes, Artist to Study: Faith Ringgold
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Design a 3-D Dream Playground
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">City at Night


 * 2nd Unit Two -** Where We Are in Place and Time: Homes Around the World
 * Dates:** 10/31 - 12/16
 * Central Idea:** Where you live affects how you live
 * Key Concepts:** Change, connection, perspective
 * Lines of Inquiry:** Different types of homes; how the environment and resources available affect the homes we live in; how homes have changed throughout history

Where We Are in Place and Time: Homes Around the World
 * 2nd grade Art- **
 * The room we can view- Imagination drawing
 * Houses in different parts of the world
 * Clay Brid Houses


 * 3rd Unit Two -** How the World Works: Flight
 * Dates:** 11/1/11-12/15/11
 * Central Idea:** Humans have always searched for faster means of travel, so people looked to the air.
 * Key Concepts:** Function, Causation, Change

How the World Works: Flight
 * 3rd grade Art- **
 * My Flying Dream, Painting inspired by Marc Chagall
 * Brids, Print-making


 * 4th Unit Two -** (MINI UNIT) How We Organize Ourselves
 * Dates:** 11/21/11- 12/15/11
 * Central Idea:** Using fractions can make life easier.
 * Key Concepts:** Function, Reflection, Connection
 * Lines of Inquiry:** Use of fractions, fractions used in different jobs (interviews/power point), make/sew floor pillows

How We Organize Ourselves <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Class Exercises focus on POSITIVE and NEGATIVE SPACES <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Artists to Study: Picasso
 * 4th grade Art- **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Expression **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Cubism **


 * 5th Unit Two -** Where we are in Place and Time: Poetry of Place
 * Dates:** 10/9/11 - 11/23/11
 * Central Idea:** Poetry can be an expression of place.
 * Key Concepts:** Form, Reflection, & Connection

Where We Are In Place and Time: Poetry of Place
 * 5th grade Art- **
 * Word Art: one point perspective
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Story and Art **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Class Exercises focus on Observation drawing & draw what you see <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Artist: to Study: Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A Day in the Life of a Shoe


 * Unit Three**
 * Kindergarten Unit Three:**
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 * First Unit Three:** How We Express Ourselves - Stories
 * Dates:** 1/3/12 - 2/10/12
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 * Second Unit Three:** How We Express Ourselves - Once Upon a Time
 * Dates:** 1/3/12-2/10/12
 * Central Idea:** Fairytales have been used throughout history to reflect cultural values
 * Key Concepts:** Form, function, perspective
 * Lines of Inquiry:** What a fairytale is; the purpose and meaning of fairytales; classic fairytales; fractured fairytales; what we can learn about history and culture from fairytales; how to write our own fairytales

Art:
 * Personaliaty Portrait


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 * 4th Unit Two -** How We Organize Ourselves
 * Dates:** 1/3/12-2/1/12
 * Central Idea:** Operating a restaurant involves decision-making, teamwork, & preparation.
 * Key Concepts:** Function, Causation, Connection
 * Lines of Inquiry**: Menu design, restaurant design, restaurant simulation, food, cooking, local providers for food

Art <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Artists to Study: Jacob Laurence
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Theme Collage, People, Places, and Things Around Me -what catches our eyes **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Design a restaurant

Art Discovery
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 * Mars Rover


 * March-April, 2012**

kindergarten : Gizmos and Gadgets. This unit will continue to March 23. transdiciplinary theme: "How the World Works". The central idea is: People have been inventing various gizmos and gadgets over the centuries to solve some kind of problem.

Our next unit, which begins on March 26th is called: Native People. This unit focuses mainly on Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Culture. However, the central idea that native people adapt to the areas in which they live (global) is discussed throughout the unit. This will be a four week unit. Art: Animal Totem- symbols and the meanings

1st grade : Weather Art: Painting and Poems inspired by Colors -acrylic painting

2nd grade How the World Works: planet earth 1. Zebra and the Safari Lanscape 2. Painting elements- Fire, Water, Air, Earth use colors, textures and shapes to illustrate these four elements

3rd grade Unit of Inquiry:

Storytelling and Fables

Transdisciplinary Theme:

How We Express Ourselves

Central Idea:

Humans tell stories to teach lessons and to entertain.

Key Concepts and some student generated questions:

**Responsibility:** Why do people tell stories? Why are fables used to teach lessons?

**Perspective:** What makes a story enjoyable? Who thought of fables? What was the first book made?

**Reflection:** How many stories are there?

4th grade

Exploration: Where We Are in Place and Time Art: Nature Journaling

1st grade : Journeys Art: My Travel Blanket
 * April 9th- ?**

3rd grade On 4/23 we will begin our Pioneer Unit. I

Unit of Inquiry:

Pioneers

Transdisciplinary Theme:

Sharing the Planet