Dance: Kindergarten

Performing (PR)

Creating (CR)

Responding (RE)

Connecting (CN)

Develop and refine dance techniques and work for presentation. 

Select, analyze, and interpret dance for presentation. 

Convey meaning through the presentation of dance.

Generate and conceptualize dance ideas and work.

Organize and develop dance work. 

Refine and complete dance work.

Perceive and analyze dance.

Construct meaningful interpretations of dance.

Apply criteria to evaluate dance. 

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make dance. 

Relate dance ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding.

Isolate body parts in relation to other body parts and imitate and recall movements upon request. 

Imitate same-side and cross-body patterning and demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements. 

Move safely in general space and start and stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space. 

Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy foods and drinks. 

Make still and moving body shapes to show lines (e.g., straight, bent, curved), change levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a circle formation and work with others to change its dimensions.

Demonstrate tempo contrasts with movements to match the tempo of music or rhythmic accompaniment. 

Move with contrasting efforts (e.g., light/strong, quick/sustained, direct/indirect). 

Dance for and with others in a designated space.

Select a prop to use as part of a dance. 

Respond in movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance). 

Explore different ways to do several basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements. 

Improvise dance with a beginning, middle, and end.

Express an idea, feeling, or image, through improvised movement moving alone or with a partner. 

Apply suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences. 

Depict a dance movement by drawing a picture or using a symbol. 

Identify a learned movement repeated in a dance.

Demonstrate or describe observed or performed dance movements.

Observe several shapes or movements and describe thoughts or feelings. 

Select a movement observed in a dance. Demonstrate the movement and explain why it was selected. 

Recognize and name an emotion experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance. 

Observe illustrations from a story and discuss ideas for movement.

Describe or demonstrate the movements in a watched or performed dance.