Dance: Grade 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 (for example, music/sound, visual, tactile) using different body parts and the whole body.

Find a different way to do several basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements while exploring the elements of dance.

Improvise a dance sequence that has a beginning, middle and end.

Engage in dance experiences moving alone, with a partner, and in small groups.

Respond to suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences and learned movement.

Identify parts of the body and document a body shape or position by drawing a picture.

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

Identify speed of dance using the element of time. Move to varied rhythmic sounds at different tempi and rhythms.

Identify and apply different characteristics to movements using the element of force (for example, slow, smooth, or wavy).

Demonstrate basic full body locomotor, non-locomotor/axial 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 simple prop as part of an improvised dance.

Identify a movement in a dance by repeating it.

Demonstrate an observed or performed dance movement.

Observe a movement and share personal feelings about observed movement.

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 in everyday actions, at home, or elsewhere.