| Visual and Performing Arts
Prekindergarten |
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| Dance |
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| 1.0 | Artistic Perception |
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Move in a variety of directed ways.
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| 1.2 |
Imitate the movements shown.
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| 1.3 |
Respond in movement to opposites (e.g., big/small, fast/slow, tight/loose, move/stop).
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| 1.4 |
Name the opposites in basic movements (e.g., big/small).
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| 2.0 | Creative Expression |
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| 2.1 |
Create movements that reflect a variety of daily tasks and activities.
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| 2.2 |
Respond to visual and sound stimuli (e.g., bubbles, feathers, bell, clock, ball) with original movement.
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| 2.3 |
Respond spontaneously to different types of music and rhythms.
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| 3.0 | Historical and Cultural Context |
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| 3.1 |
Name and play children's dance games from countries around the world.
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| 4.0 | Aesthetic Valuing |
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| 4.1 |
Describe how everyday movements can be used in dance (e.g., walk quickly, stretch slowly).
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| 5.0 | Connections, Relationships, Applications |
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| 5.1 |
Participate in dance games, sing songs, recite poems, and tell stories from countries around the world.
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| Music |
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| 1.0 | Artistic Perception |
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Use icons or invented symbols to represent musical sounds and ideas.
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Identify the sources of a wide variety of sounds.
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| 1.3 |
Use body movement to respond to dynamics and tempo.
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| 2.0 | Creative Expression |
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| 2.1 |
Move or use body percussion to demonstrate awareness of beat and tempo.
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| 2.2 |
Use the voice to speak, chant, and sing.
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| 2.3 |
Improvise simple instrumental accompaniments to songs, recorded selections, stories, and poems.
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| 3.0 | Historical and Cultural Context |
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| 3.1 |
Use a personal vocabulary to describe music from diverse cultures.
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| 3.2 |
Use developmentally appropriate movements in responding to music from various genres and periods(rhythm).
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| 4.0 | Aesthetic Valuing |
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| 4.1 |
Create movements in response to music.
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| 4.2 |
Participate freely in musical activities.
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| 5.0 | Connections, Relationships, Applications |
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| 5.1 |
Improvise songs to accompany games and playtime activities.
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| 5.2 |
Demonstrate an awareness of music as a part of daily life.
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| Theatre |
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| 1.0 | Artistic Perception |
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| 1.1 |
Use the vocabulary of theatre, such as pretend, imagination, movement, puppetry, and audience, to describe theatrical experiences.
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| 1.2 |
Identify characteristic movements and sounds of animate and inanimate objects.
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| 2.0 | Creative Expression |
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| 2.1 |
Participate in call-and-response games.
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| 2.2 |
Engage in fantasy play, recreating situations in familiar settings.
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| 3.0 | Historical and Cultural Context |
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Identify various theatrical experiences, such as live theatre, television, and puppetry.
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| 4.0 | Aestietic Valuing |
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Respond appropriately as an audience member.
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| 5.0 | Connections, Relationships, Applications |
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| 5.1 |
Use body, voice, and imagination to illustrate concepts in other content areas. Use movement and voice, for example, to reinforce vocabulary, such as big, little, loud, and quiet.
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| Visual Arts |
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| 1.0 | Artistic Perception |
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| 1.1 |
Discuss visual and tactile perceptions of the natural and human-made world: what is seen and how objects feel.
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Identify colors by name.
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Name and describe objects by color and relative size.
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| 2.0 | Creative Expression |
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| 2.1 |
Create patterns and three-dimensional arrangements (using manipulatives or blocks).
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| 2.2 |
Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of materials (such as pencils, paints, crayons, clay) to create works of art.
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Experiment with colors through the use of a variety of drawing materials and paints.
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| 2.4 |
Create a self-portrait.
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| 2.5 |
Create a picture of a person.
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| 2.6 |
Use colors to draw or paint a picture of everyday objects.
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Create a three-dimensional form.
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| 3.0 | Historical and Cultural Context |
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| 3.1 |
Identify art observed in daily life.
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| 3.2 |
Describe pictorial objects that appear in works of art.
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| 3.3 |
Discuss art objects from various places and times.
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| 4.0 | Aesthetic Valuing |
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| 4.1 |
Discuss what is seen in works of art.
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| 4.2 |
Ask questions about works of art.
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Discuss what they like about their own works of art.
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| 4.4 |
Select works of art by others and tell what they like about them.
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| 5.0 | Connections, Relationships, Applications |
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| 5.1 |
Create visual patterns (e.g., line, line, dot; line, line, dot) to match rhythms made by clapping or drumming the beat found in selected poems or songs.
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| 5.2 |
Name colors and draw an object, using the colors (e.g., red balloon, green leaf, brown dog, yellow sun).
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| 5.3 |
Identify images of self, friends, and family (including snapshots and the students own works of art).
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| 5.4 |
Discuss how art is used to illustrate stories.
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