Classes for academic art
Student have direct art instruction from a visual arts educator for 3 hours a week. The 3 months plan you see on the website is a brief overview of what your child will be learning in art. Occasionally few methods may change or new ones will be added depending on the learning methodology of the child.
Watch the art competition webpage every month for the best student art work uploaded on Aakar Art Academy’s website. The winners will go on to participate in the annual exhibition of students of Aakar Art Academy.
Core concept and skills
Students will work with variety of materials including markers, crayons, soft pastels, charcoal, clay and water colours. Our curriculum includes the role of artist in the society, recognizing art as a form of communication and expression and identifying elements of art such as line, shape, color, texture and space .Throughout the elementary art experience we are exploring different age appropriate methods of becoming artist's.
All exercises help students to use their imagination .We believe in the power of integrating art lessons with content from the class room. This is highly beneficial for those students who are visual –spatial and bodily kinesthetic learners. It also allows students to bring knowledge they have learned into the art room to demonstrate understanding or solidify abstract concepts form the class room into practical use.
How you can help
Many parents ask what they can do at home to help support their child .Give them time to create! Drawing, sculpting with clay, building with Legos or other toys, creating art on the computer, taking photographs, all these help support elements of the art curriculum. Coloring with your child is invaluable-that simple practice of craftsmanship of staying in the lines help so much with hand eye coordination .Practicing to cut will also help! Have students cut paper! Exposing children to art is also valuable .This encourages aesthetic choice and decision making while forming a lifelong love of art.
Art Assessment
How is my child graded in art?
It is important to know and understand that everyone is an artist their own way. In art, students are assessed in three areas skills and content, behavior and effort (craftsmanship). We do not base our assessment on the child’s ability to draw or paint. Ability is a great thing to have and will be nurtured but raw talent alone is not what art is entirely about. Below are the assessment remarks and how we assess our art and how we define gradation.
O = outstanding – (This means your child takes the lesson requirements and goes creatively further in their expression)
S = Satisfactory (This means your child is fulfilling the requirements of the lesson to the best of their ability)
N= Needs improvement (This means your child is not yet working to their fullest potential, the skill may be new and much harder and requires a greater effort.)
Once again, we grade on the process of the work, not the product of the work.