Fine Arts: Dance (Kindergarten)

Dance

Kindergarten

Performing

Creating (CR)

Responding (RE)

Connecting (CN)

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

 Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic 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 that show lines (e.g., straight, bent, curved), changes 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 that 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 a different way to do several basic locomotor and non­ locomotor movements.

Improvise dance that has 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 that repeats 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 that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance.

Observe illustrations from a story and discuss ideas for movement.

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