Kindergarten Fine Arts OLS Standards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connect ideas, stories, and personal experiences to works of art.

Recognize dance as a tool for healthy living.

Experience how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.

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

Explore environments and experiences to generate original artmaking ideas.

Explore movement with basic elements of dance.

Experience a wide variety of vocal and instrumental sounds.

Demonstrate observations and listening skills in a theatrical context.

Demonstrate willingness to try new processes.

Move safely within personal and general space.

Track steady beat and rhythm (using graphic, iconic, or traditional notation).

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

Use visual art vocabulary to distinguish between art forms.

Describe how movements can express feelings.

With prompting and support, listen to music of various styles, composers, periods, and cultures.

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

Consider and discuss why people create and enjoy works of art.

Explore dance forms from various cultures.

Attend a music performance demonstrating appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of music performed.

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

Engage in self-directed play with various materials.

Explore ways to use imagination when engaged in dancing.

Compose simple rhythms using standard and/or iconic notation.

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

Explore a variety of materials and tools to create works of art.

Demonstrate basic elements of dance.

Explore the four voices—singing, speaking, whispering, and calling.

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

Describe processes used to make art.

With prompting and support, demonstrate and discuss how to respond to dance as an audience member.

Explore a variety of classroom instruments (metals, skins, woods).

Describe what a playwright does.

Share personal responses to works of art and acknowledge the opinions of others.

Investigate concepts shared between music, other art forms, and other subject areas.

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

Discover how the elements of art can be used in artmaking.

Play creatively with rhythm games.

Compose simple melodies (using contour, iconic, or kinesthetic representation).

Communicate an idea using the elements of art.

Collaborate with others to make decisions during a dance activity.

Sing (using head voice and appropriate posture) and move to music of various styles, composers, and cultures.

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

Observe and describe works of art.

Observe and respond to movements in a dance using words, pictures, or movements.

Recognize same and different (fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low, long/short).

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

With guidance, play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others, and demonstrate proper techniques.

Respond to music using movement, dance, drama, or visual art.

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

Demonstrate and maintain a steady beat while performing simple rhythmic echoes.

Share observations and opinions about personal musical experiences and musical selections of various styles, composers, periods, and cultures.

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

Duplicate same and different (fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low, long/short).

With substantial guidance, follow and respond to the basic cues of a conductor.

Discuss and identify songs that are used for a variety of occasions in various cultures.

Experience the difference between steady beat and rhythm (through movement, body percussion).

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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