Fourth Grade Curriculum Use the crest, to the left, to navigate back to our home page. In Grade Four art projects of longer duration are continued.
Students use simple lap looms and shuttles to create a plain weave fabric.
Proper technique is emphasized to that a fabric of even tension and a planned, pleasing design results. Learning the skill of bead weaving enlarges the fourth graders' homeroom studies of Native American cultures in Indiana while encouraging a dramatic improvement in fine motor coordination. After examining samples of bead weaving as garment and object decoration, students design unique patterns influenced by those abstracted images. Patterns are drawn up on graph paper and carefully reproduced with beads. Still life drawings are make from natural objects.