Dance: Grade K

Demonstrate emerging understanding of movement skills.

Engage in movement problem-solving dance experiences.

Respond through movement to verbal instruction and to various stimuli.

Identify diversity of movement choices.

Know that dances vary throughout cultures, times, and places.

Recognize factors that contribute to the creation, meaning, and beauty of dance.

Identify the connections between dance, other disciplines, and artful living.

Experience shifting body weight in various directions.

Experience axial movements (e.g., bend, arch, reach, twist, turn) and motor skills.

Distinguish right and left with body parts and movement.

Experience locomotor movements (e.g., roll, crawl, walk, gallop, hop, jump, leap).

Exhibit awareness of different components of human energy (e.g., strong, weak, soft, hard, push, pull).

Apply positional and level concepts while executing shapes and movement (e.g., beside, in front of).

Create shapes in high, middle, and low levels alone and with partners.

Maintain personal space while traveling through space and responding to images, sounds, and color words.

Perform simple movements in response to verbal instruction.

Recognize simple changes in a performance.

Explain the pattern or order of various performed movement choices.

Display celebration/enjoyment of dance.

Observe traditional dances from various cultures.

Observe a higher level class while engaging in the compositional process.

Explain what factors add to the beauty of a dance (e.g., technical skill of dancers, choreographic and production elements).

Students recognize some physical and social functions of dance.

Cultivate audience skills and behaviors.

Identify aspects of dance that relate to other subject areas.