Dance: Grade K

Dance

Foundations – Fundamental concepts, principles, and skills

Creating - Expression of ideas, experiences, feelings, and images

Response – Reflection, analysis, and evaluation

Connections – Exchanging and relating ideas, experiences, and meanings

Identifies and demonstrates movement elements, skills, and terminology in dance

Understands and models dance etiquette as a classroom participant, performer, and observer

Understands and applies dance science to movement and dance technique

Understands and applies music concepts to dance

Demonstrates an understanding of creative and choreographic principles, processes, and structures

Demonstrates an understanding of dance as a way to create and communicate meaning

Demonstrates critical and creative thinking in all aspects of dance

Demonstrates and understands dance in various cultures and historical periods

Recognizes connections between dance and wellness

Integrates the use of technology and new media

Demonstrates and understands dance as it relates to other areas of knowledge

Recognizes basic terminology of creative movement elements (e.g., space, time, force, body)

Recognizes, recalls, and executes basic locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, gallop)

Recognizes, recalls, and executes opposite and contrasting axial movements comprised of space, force, body shapes, and qualities (e.g., levels, sharp/smooth, curved/straight, heavy/light, swing, shake, float)

Demonstrates body awareness through body parts isolations and connections (e.g., upper-lower, body half, cross-lateral)

Demonstrates the difference between personal and general space

Demonstrates the ability to perform simple movements in response to oral instruction

Demonstrates attentiveness and full participation and awareness of others in the dance learning environment

Demonstrates focus and concentration in the performance of skills

Understands the difference between appropriate behaviors in a dance class and those of an audience member and dance observer

Identifies general aspects of the human body applied to dance: "What is a muscle? What is a bone?

Identifies and/or isolates eight to ten body parts (e.g., head, arms, legs, hips, elbows, knees, neck, waist, wrists, ankles, hands, feet, fingers, toes)

Identifies the importance of healthy practices for dance

Explores moving to music and responding to changes in tempo and qualities

Explores stopping, starting, and changing in response to music and sound

Explores working collaboratively with others

Identifies and then creates a dance sequence with a beginning, middle, and end

Engages in creative exploration of dance elements through structured improvisation and play (e.g., body, space, time, energy)

Explores problem solving skills through movement

Responds through movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., scarves, songs, streamers, images)

Improvises movement based on own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness

Recognizes and accurately describes movement and dance elements.

Moves expressively to music or other accompaniment (e.g., sound, text)

Explains basic features that distinguish one kind of dance from another (speed, force/energy use, costume, setting, music)

Develops the ability to describe and reflects upon one's own dance as well as another's dance

Describes, compares, and contrasts movement elements of dance

Explores the role of dance in various cultures

Explores "Why we dance"

Explores the principles of a healthy body (e.g., nutrition)

Explores safe moving concept

Explores essential concepts for individual and group movement

Explores dance as an art form through the use of media and technology

Compares and contrasts dance to other art forms

Explores commonalities of essential concepts between dance and other subject areas