Kindergarten

Creating: Artists/students use creative thinking and reasoning skills to perceive concepts and ideas to develop works.

Performing: Artists/students employ personal processes and skills to solve problems creatively and present work in various contexts. 

Responding: Artists/students engage in analysis and interpretation to understand and evaluate artistic works.

Connecting: Artists/students understand and communicate the value of creative expressions in internal and external contexts.

Demonstrate observations and listening skills in a theatrical context.

Imitate the characters seen in media presentations of stories and fairy tales.

Imitate movements, voices, and feelings of people, animals and objects through dramatic play.

Work cooperatively to create characters using costumes and props to dramatize a story.

Imagine and create a physical environment for stories (arrange classroom furniture, recommend lighting or sound effects to suggest mood, choose characters’ clothing).

Use basic theatre vocabulary after attending a theatrical experience to discuss what was seen.

Describe what a playwright does.

Distinguish between the real and imagined worlds when experiencing stories, myths, and fairy tales.

List and demonstrate factors that make a performer effective (posture, voice, facial expression).

Demonstrate ways an audience can show respect when watching a theatrical performance.

Share thoughts, emotions, and ideas in response to a dramatic or theatrical experience.

Identify stories that are different from one another in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Engage in dramatic experiences to explore concepts from other academic areas.