Dance: Grade Pre-K

Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education - Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

Historical, Cultural, and Social Context: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dance as an essential aspect of history and human experience.

Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.

Aesthetics and Criticism: Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments in dance.

Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance movement

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance

Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis

Demonstrate knowledge of dances from a variety of cultures

Relate dance to history, society, and personal experience

Demonstrate understanding of the relationships between and among dance and other content areas

Develop the ability to improvise dance

Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning

Develop knowledge and execution of performance competencies in dance

Identify and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance

Demonstrate selected locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Combine selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes, levels, energy, fast and slow, and use sensory stimuli to create movement

Explore locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness

Respond to feedback related to timing while executing locomotor and non-locomotor movements

Perform and name selected dance movements

Reproduce movement demonstrated by the teacher

Apply the language of dance to observed movement

Explore the uses of dance movements

View dances from other cultures

Perform selected traditional dances from various cultures

View and discuss selected contemporary and historical dance styles from other times and places and label them as old or new

Create movements that express specific moods

Explore ways line and shape are used in dance and other content areas

Improvise movements to communicate ideas and concepts in response to a variety of stimuli

Use improvisation to link two or more locomotor or non-locomotor movements

Communicate ideas from stories, poems, or songs, using improvisation

Communicate movement ideas using the elements of dance

Demonstrate movement effects using repetition

Use dance movement to tell stories

Recognize how specific performance competencies, such as maintaining formation, maintaining personal space, entrance and exit, affect dance presentation

Complete simple dances from beginning to end, following cues or models

Recognize and describe locomotor and non-locomotor movements in dance performances

Recognize selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes and levels, and tempo, in performances

Demonstrate audience behaviors that are respectful of the performers