Dance: Grade 1

Perceiving/Knowing

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Recognize and use descriptive language when engaging in conversations about their dance experiences.

Recognize the similarities and differences between dance forms.

Observe a culturally representative dance and describe the visual, kinetic and expressive elements.

Explore ways to use their imaginations when engaged in dance-making.

Recognize and talk about how dancing can build coordination and memory.

Describe what a choreographer does and find examples of dances by choreographers in their school or community.

Describe different ways that movements shaped into dance depict feelings and emotions.

Demonstrate basic locomotor and non-locomotor movement patterns using changes in time, space, body shape and movement quality to construct and express personal meaning.

Create and perform a memorized movement sequence with a clear beginning, middle and end.

Play creatively with rhythm games.

Cooperate with others to make decisions during a dance activity.

Learn developmentally appropriate cultural dances.

Explore movement to create images using words, sound and music.

Explore and use a range of subject matter to create original dance improvisations and dances.

Assess their own learning in dance and express ways to improve it.

Share their dance-making processes with one another.

Demonstrate and discuss how to respond to dance as an audience member.

Demonstrate responsibility and social skills when collaborating with peers.

Share their ideas about dances they observe and tell what they think the work was about.

Discuss how dance can help people communicate.

Recognize and discuss why dance is a healthy activity.