Dance: Pre-K

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work 

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Respond in movement to a variety of sensory stimuli (e.g., music/ sound, visual, tactile).

Find a different way to do several basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

Improvise dance that starts and stops on cue.

Engage in dance experiences moving alone or with a partner.

Respond to suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences.

Identify and demonstrate directions for moving the body in general space (e.g., forward, backwards, sideways, up, down, and turning) and finding and returning to a place in space.

Identify speed of movement as fast or slow. Move to varied rhythmic sounds at different tempi. 

Move with opposing dynamics.

Demonstrate basic full body locomotor, nonlocomotor movement, and body patterning with spatial relationships.

Move in general space and start and stop on cue while maintaining personal space. 

Identify and move body parts and repeat movements upon request.

Dance for others in a designated area or space.

Use a prop as part of a dance. 

Identify a movement in a dance by repeating it.

Demonstrate an observed or performed dance movement.

Observe a movement and share impressions.

Find a movement in a dance that was fun to watch. Repeat it and explain why it is fun to watch and do. 

Recognize an emotion expressed in dance movement that is watched or performed.

Observe a dance work. Identify and imitate a movement from the dance, and ask a question about the dance.

Show a dance movement experienced at home or elsewhere.