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🎨 1st Grade · ArtVA:Cr2.2Unit 1: Lines & shapes

Taking care of tools

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🎯 Objective: Students learn safe and careful use of scissors, glue and paint.

Lesson outline

  1. Model each tool.
  2. Practice station.
  3. Clean-up routine.
  4. Exit: one tool rule.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr2.2

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explore line and shape
  • Use art tools safely

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Lines & shapes”

  1. Kinds of lines
  2. Shapes everywhere
  3. Taking care of tools

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