First graders learn that art is a way to share their own ideas and feelings — that colors and pictures can tell a story — and that everyone’s art is special and unique.
Students will be able to…
Art isn’t just pretty pictures — it can tell a story and show how you feel! How does your art share your ideas?
Project each item and have children answer about how art shows ideas and feelings.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
Art can tell a story and show how you feel — how?
Children explore.
Children create.
Children share.
Children respond.
Aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (Visual Arts).
Express ideas and feelings in art.
Interpret meaning in artworks.
Connect art to personal experience.
Describe the mood of a work.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have children draw a picture and tell a family member the story it shows. A printable art-story sheet is in the Arts library.
Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.
A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.