Dance: Grade K

Produce

Respond

Understand

Demonstrate basic locomotor skills, including galloping, sliding, running, and walking

Describe feelings, ideas, or images found in dance movements.

Identify the basic elements of movement, including time, space, and energy.

Identify dance, music, theatre, and visual arts as the four arts disciplines.

Demonstrate the ability to stop, go, freeze, and move safely on cue.

Identify purposes for which people dance.

Identify elements of movement that relate to other subject areas.

Identify healthy food choices for a dancer.

Utilize design software to illustrate elements of space.

Demonstrating basic nonlocomotor skills, including bending and stretching

Creating movements reflecting emotions

Moving in self space and general space

Performing simple movements with varying degrees of energy

Demonstrating movement using a steady beat

Performing at varying tempos