Creative Arts: Kindergarten

Music

Dance

Visual Arts

Dramatic Play

Demonstrate creative music expression

Demonstrate creative movement expression 

Demonstrate creative expression through the visual art process or experience

Demonstrate creative expression through visual art production and presentation

Demonstrate creative expression through art appreciation

Demonstrate creative expression through dramatic play

Demonstrate music's expressive qualities (such as louder/softer, higher/lower, faster/slower, same/different) using music vocabulary

Audiate and accurately speak or sing familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and/or tonalities. 

Accurately play a variety of classroom instruments alone and with others using appropriate technique. 

Identify music concepts and explore ways they are used in other disciplines.

Apply a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures by singing, moving, playing, and demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of the music performed.

Identify and respond to expressive elements of music and demonstrate through movement in listening examples, singing games and/or simple folk dances. 

Explore different ways to do basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements by manipulating various elements of dance. 

Isolate and move body parts in relation to other body parts and repeat and recall movements upon request. 

Recognize and name an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance and relate it to a personal experience or feelings.  

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials. 

Engage collaboratively and/or individually in creative art making in response to an artistic problem. 

Begin to identify safe and nontoxic art materials, tools, and equipment. 

Explain the process of making art while creating.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Create art that tells a story about a life experience. 

Display and describe personal artwork.

Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.

Describe what an image represents. 

Identify purpose of an artwork.

Explore the purpose of an art museum. 

With prompting and support, invent and inhabit an imaginary place/environment in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, use available materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play or a guided drama experience. 

With prompting and support, interact with peers and contribute to dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, actively engage with others in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.