Colorado State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

CO.1. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance skills.

1.1. Observing and demonstrating a series of movements in a given order that create a movement phrase through basic non-locomotors and locomotors movement.

1.2. Demonstrating accuracy in moving with a rhythmic beat and responding to changes in tempo.

1.3. Demonstrating awareness of spatial dimensions by moving and creating shapes within each dimension.

CO.2. Dance: Students will understand and apply the principles of choreography.

2.1. Creating simple movement's phrases through improvisation.

CO.3. Dance: Students will create, communicate, and problem solve through dance.

3.1. Discovering solutions to a movement problem and discussing reasons for that solution.

3.2. Discussing how dance is different from other forms of movement.

3.3. Presenting and discussing dances with peers.

CO.4. Dance: Students will understand and relate the role of dance in culture and history.

4.1. Performing and discussing dances from various cultures.

4.2. Describing dance in relation to historical periods.

CO.5. Dance: Students will understand the benefits of dance for lifelong fitness.

5.1. Identifying fitness components and their relation to dance.

5.2. Discussing how warm-up activities prepare the body and mind for an activity.

CO.6. Dance: Students will understand the relationships and connections between dance and other disciplines.

6.1. Creating a dance that combines an idea from another discipline.

6.2. Responding to a dance by creating an image, discussing an idea or concept that relates to that dance.

CO.1. Music: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.

1.1. Singing or playing music, with appropriate technique, in rhythm, in tempo, and on pitch.

1.2. Singing or playing music, with appropriate technique, representing musically and culturally diverse literature.

1.3. Responding to the conductor's cues of rhythm and tempo while singing or playing music.

1.4. Responding to music through movement.

CO.2. Music: Students will read and notate music.

2.1. Identifying whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth notes, and equivalent rests.

2.2. Reading simple melodic and rhythmic notation.

2.3. Identifying symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics and tempo.

2.4. Notating simple melodies and rhythms.

CO.3. Music: Students will create music.

3.1. Creating simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.

3.2. Creating short selections, using a variety of sound sources (for example, classroom instruments, vocal sounds, electronic technology, or other sound-producing objects).

CO.4. Music: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.

4.1. Listening to and identifying simple forms.

4.2. Identifying contrasts of timbre in sound.

4.3. Identifying elements and/or expressive qualities in music.

CO.5. Music: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.

5.1. Identifying how elements of music are used in examples from various cultures (for example: rhythms found in the music of Africa and rap music from America show commonalities).

5.2. Identifying the roles of musicians in history and various cultures (for example: Scott Joplin and Billie Holiday were representatives of the early jazz movement in America).

5.3. Demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed (for example: It is not appropriate to talk during an orchestra concert in contrast to its permissibility during a rock concert).

CO.1. Theatre: Students develop interpersonal skills and problem-solving capabilities through group interaction and artistic collaboration.

1.1. Accepting responsibilities and demonstrating respect for others in dramatic activities

1.2. Knowing how to participate effectively within the group.

1.3. Demonstrating problem solving skills through group interaction.

1.4. Sharing constructive opinions of the group activity.

CO.2. Theatre: Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of story telling, playwriting, acting, and directing.

2.1. Telling stories.

2.2. Developing skills in rhythmic movement, pantomime, vocal exercises, story interpretation and improvisation through guided dramatic play.

2.3. Using role-playing to develop confidence and understand human behavior.

2.4. Planning and recording improvisations based on personal experiences and imagination.

CO.3. Theatre: Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of design and technical production.

3.1. Visualizing and designing environments by using space, color, line, shape, texture, and sound sources to communicate locale and mood.

3.2. Assembling and using objects, light, fabrics, sound effects, masks, makeup to represent time and place, and to suggest character in playmaking activities.

CO.4. Theatre: Students understand and relate the role of theatre arts to culture and history.

4.1. Researching historical and cultural information to support classroom dramatization.

4.2. Applying knowledge of historical and cultural events through the creation of dramatic activities.

CO.5. Theatre: Students analyze and assess the characteristics, merits, and meanings of traditional and modem forms of dramatic expression.

5.1. Expressing impressions and observations related to dramatic activities and performance.

5.2. Understanding the form of dramatic structure.

5.3. Demonstrating responsible audience behavior.

CO.6. Theatre: Students know and apply connections between theatre and other disciplines.

6.1. Creating dramatic activities to understand other disciplines.

6.2. Identifying relationships between theatre and other disciplines.

6.3. Exploring technology to enhance dramatic activities.

CO.1. Visual Arts: Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication.

1.1. Identifying visual images, themes, and ideas for works of art.

1.2. Selecting and using visual images, themes, and ideas to communicate meaning.

1.3. Comparing the use of visual images and ideas.

CO.2. Visual Arts: Students know and apply elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features of visual arts.

2.1. Identifying elements of art and principles of design in works of art.

2.2. Applying elements of art and principles of design to create works of art.

CO.3. Visual Arts: Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes.

3.1. Identifying and describing different materials, tools, techniques, and processes.

3.2. Using materials, tools, techniques, and processes to make works of art.

CO.4. Visual Arts: Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.

4.1. Identifying works of art as belonging to various cultures, times, and places.

4.2. Creating art based on historical and cultural ideas of diverse people.

CO.5. Visual Arts: Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.

5.1. Observing and describing a variety of works of art, including their own.

5.2. Using specific criteria to analyze works of art.

5.3. Using specific criteria to evaluate works of art.