Kindergarten Fine Arts Arizona Standards

Investigate the dance literacy skills of dance observation, engaging in dialogue, and utilizing symbol systems in one's learning.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Explore new movement choices through guided improvisational experiences and reflect on the process with others.

Recognize a personal or emotional response to a dance work. Identify a social or cultural experience that relates to your response. Discuss how specific movements contributed to your response and relate to your personal experience.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Select a prop to use as part of a dance or explore the use of simple props to enhance performance. Demonstrate the use of limited production elements (for example, hand props, simple scenery, or media projections).

Record the movements of a dance by drawing a picture or using a symbol (e.g., jump, turn, slide, bend, reach).

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Repeat movements, with an awareness of self and others in space.

Demonstrate movement qualities along with movement vocabulary (for example, use adverbs and adjectives that apply to movement such as a floating leap, a floppy fall, a jolly jump, and joyful spin). Move with opposing movement qualities (e.g. sudden/sustained, light/heavy, jerky/smooth). Identify and apply different characteristics to movements (e.g. slow, smooth, or wavy).

Identify and demonstrate directions for moving the body using locomotor and nonlocomotor movements in personal and general space (i.e. forward, backwards, sideways, up, down, turning). Make body shapes (i.e. straight, bent, curved) that change levels and vary in size. Move in straight, curved and zig-zagged pathways.

Move safely through general space when performing locomotor movements and stop on cue while maintaining personal space.

Refine and complete artistic work

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Move in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal and general space.

Connecting

Responding

Utilize two criteria to evaluate the strength of an artistic work. Discuss movements and other components of the dance that make the dance work well, and explain why they were effective.

Find movements that develop a pattern.

Explore a variety of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements by experimenting with changes in body, effort, shape and space.

Connect movements that express an idea or emotion to create a short movement sequence.

Identify, describe or respond through movement to observed or performed dance movements from different genres or cultures.

Creating

Explore dance elements of body, effort, shape and space and organize movement choices to create a simple choreographic structure as part of the creative process.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Respond in movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, images, symbols, tactile, text, objects).

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning, body shapes, directionality, and dance sequences that require moving through space.

Identify movements that capture an idea and explain the meaning or intent using simple dance terminology.

Dance for and with others in a space where audience and performers occupy different areas.

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Identify fast, moderate and slow movements. Recognize steady beat and move to varying tempi of steady beat. Identify and move on the downbeat of duple and triple meter.

Performing

Role-play personal experiences through movement. Discuss observations made and identify the movements that expressed the personal experience.

With appropriate guidance, identify expressive attributes that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent (e.g. mood and emotion).

With appropriate guidance, explore, experience, and improvise musical concepts (e.g. beat and melodic contour).

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

With appropriate guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections.

With appropriate guidance, organize personal musical ideas using notation (e.g. iconic notation and/or recording technology).

With appropriate guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining personal musical ideas.

With appropriate guidance, list personal musical interests.

With appropriate guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances(e.g. technique and stage presence).

Refine and complete artistic work

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

With appropriate guidance, explore how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.

With appropriate guidance, explore and demonstrate musical contrasts of music selected for performance (e.g. high/low, loud/soft, same/different, and fast/slow).

With appropriate guidance, apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

With appropriate guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve expression in music.

With appropriate guidance, explore musical concepts (e.g. voice quality, movement, dynamics, tempo, and melodic contour).

Responding

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Perform appropriately for the audience and occasion.

With appropriate guidance, express personal preferences in music.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

With appropriate guidance, demonstrate a final version of personal or collective musical ideas to peers.

With appropriate guidance, explore various uses of music in daily experiences (e.g. songs of celebration, game songs, marches, T.V., movie, and video game sound tracks, dance music, and work songs).

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Connecting

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

With appropriate guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas (e.g. singing and playing instruments).

With appropriate guidance, explore relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).

With appropriate guidance, demonstrate musical concepts (e.g. beat or melodic direction).

With appropriate guidance, perform music with expression (e.g. tone and tempo).

Performing

Creating

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

With appropriate guidance, read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using notation (e.g. iconic notation).

With appropriate guidance, explore musical features (e.g. movement, vocalizations, or instrumental accompaniments).

Identify and demonstrate basic skills, including handling tools, making choices, and cooperating in creating media artworks.

With guidance, identify and share reactions to the presentation of media artworks.

Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Practice, discover, and share how media arts creation tools work.

Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

With guidance, identify and share roles and the situation in presenting media artworks.

Producing

Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions (such as symbols).

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life, such as daily activities.

With guidance, combine arts forms and media content (such as dance and video) to form media artworks.

Responding

With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Share ideas for media artworks through guided exploration of methods, and imagining.

Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.

Connecting

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

With guidance, examine and share appealing qualities in media artworks.

Share memorable experiences of media artworks.

With guidance, use ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.

Identify and demonstrate creative skills, including performing, within media arts productions.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Creating

Refine and complete artistic work

With prompting and support, interact with peers and contribute to a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, demonstrate the use of with various technical elements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Creating

With prompting and support, transition between imagination and reality to invent and inhabit an imaginary elsewhere in a guided theatrical place (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Use body and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

With prompting and support, express original ideas in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., creative drama, process drama, story drama).

Perceive and analyze artistic work

With prompting and support, express an emotional response to characters in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use imagination to transform objects

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Identify single objects used in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., sun/circle, bus/rectangle).

With prompting and support, retell a personal experience in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, creative drama, story drama)

Connecting

With prompting and support, identify setting in dramatic play, a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, perform in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, tell a short story in dramatic in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Responding

Using guided dramatic play, include sounds in a theatrical experience.

Name and describe experiences and feelings of characters in a guided theatrical experience

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

With prompting and support, actively engage with others in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, interact with nonrepresentational materials such as, puppets, and costume pieces for a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify skills and knowledge from personal experiences in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Performing

Refine and complete artistic work

With prompting and support, identify characters and setting in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe settings in dramatic a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify stories that are different from one another in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe characters in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Identify reasons for saving and displaying objects, artifacts, and artwork.

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making (such as using the elements of modern art, applying artistic ideas from diverse cultures).

Describe what an image represents.

Observe safe practices with art materials, tools, and equipment.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Engage collaboratively (such as using manipulatives for construction, adding to a group collage) in creative art making in response to an artistic problem.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Refine and complete artistic work

Presenting

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Responding

Create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Identify various types (such as drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture) of art.

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection (such as keeping artworks safe, reviewing artworks later, deciding which artworks are best).

Explain the process and/or subject matter of personal artwork.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Identify a purpose of an artwork. Identify a variety of reasons why people from different places and times make art (such as to express themselves, to tell a story, to make things look beautiful, to remember special people and events) .

Creating

Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Connecting

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Engage in exploration (such as noticing cause and effect relationships) and imaginative play with materials (such as with paper, markers, clay, crayons).