Florida State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

FL.DA.A.1.1. Dance: Skills and Techniques: The student identifies and demonstrates movement elements in performing dance.

DA.A.1.1.1. The student knows basic nonlocomotor/axial movements (e.g., bend, twist, and swing).

DA.A.1.1.2. The student knows simple locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, and leap) and compound locomotor movements (e.g., gallop, slide, and leap).

DA.A.1.1.3. The student performs movement with kinesthetic awareness (i.e., how the body moves) and concentration at high, middle, and low levels in space.

DA.A.1.1.4. The student moves to various sounds, including rhythmic accompaniment, and responds to changes in tempo.

DA.A.1.1.5. The student moves following straight and curved pathways.

FL.DA.A.2.1. Dance: Skills and Techniques: The student understands choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

DA.A.2.1.1. The student creates a series of movements with a beginning, middle, and end.

DA.A.2.1.2. The student uses improvisation to explore and create movement ideas (e.g., walk across the room, stop two times, and change level once).

DA.A.2.1.3. The student creates movement patterns alone, with partners, and with groups.

FL.DA.B.1.1. Dance: Creation and Communication: The student understands dance is a way to create meaning.

DA.B.1.1.1. The student understands how gestures and movement communicate meaning.

DA.B.1.1.2. The student creates a movement phrase that the student communicates feelings.

FL.DA.C.1.1. Dance: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student demonstrates and the student understands dance in various cultures and historical periods.

DA.C.1.1.1. The student understands how dance expresses and embodies elements of a culture.

DA.C.1.1.2. The student explores movement in response to the sounds and music that reflect a specific culture.

DA.C.1.1.3. The student knows the similarities and differences that exist between dance patterns of various cultures.

FL.DA.D.1.1. Dance: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student applies and demonstrates critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

DA.D.1.1.1. The student finds multiple solutions to given movement problems.

DA.D.1.1.2. The student understands that dance is sequential with a beginning, middle, and end.

DA.D.1.1.3. The student understands that critical analysis of dance performances are based on personal opinion.

DA.D.1.1.4. The student knows a simple descriptive vocabulary of movement.

FL.DA.E.1.1. Dance: Applications to Life: The student makes connections between dance and healthful living.

DA.E.1.1.1. The student knows how daily dance practice improves strength, coordination, and flexibility.

DA.E.1.1.2. The student understands how healthy living practices (e.g., proper nutrition, adequate sleep, and daily exercise) contribute to enhanced dance movement abilities.

FL.DA.E.2.1. Dance: Applications to Life: The student makes connections between dance and other disciplines.

DA.E.2.1.1. The student knows how to express a visual image through movement (e.g., move like a cat, an ocean wave, or a cloud).

FL.MU.A.1.1. Music: Skills and Techniques: The student sings, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

MU.A.1.1.1. The student sings songs within a five-to-seven note range alone and maintains the tonal center.

MU.A.1.1.1.K.1. The student sings melodic patterns and songs within a four-note range (F-D1) using sol, la, and mi.

MU.A.1.1.1.K.2. The student echoes simple melodic patterns, using sol, la, and mi and maintaining the tonal center.

MU.A.1.1.1.K.3. The student demonstrates healthy use of the singing, speaking, whispering, and calling voice with appropriate volume for the young child.

MU.A.1.1.2. The student sings simple songs (e.g., folk, patriotic, nursery rhymes, rounds, and singing games) with appropriate tone, pitch, and rhythm, with and without accompaniment.

MU.A.1.1.2.K.1. The student sings simple unison songs, with and without accompaniment, with accurate pitch, accurate rhythm, and appropriate tone quality.

MU.A.1.1.3. The student sings a culturally diverse repertoire of songs (some from memory), with appropriate expression, dynamics, and phrasing.

MU.A.1.1.3.K.1. The student sings, alone and with others, a diverse repertoire representing various cultures and styles (for example, folk songs, poems, play-party games, patriotic songs, student-created songs, nursery rhymes).

MU.A.1.1.3.K.2. The student demonstrates expressive qualities appropriate to the music, using dynamic contrast and tempo change.

FL.MU.A.3.1. Music: Skills and Techniques: The student reads and notates music.

MU.A.3.1.1. The student reads simple rhythmic and melodic notation, using traditional and nontraditional symbols.

MU.A.3.1.1.K.1. The student recognizes and the student performs sounds having long and short duration in response to visual representation.

MU.A.3.1.1.K.2. The student recognizes and the student performs high and low sounds in response to visual representation.

MU.A.3.1.2. The student demonstrates pitch direction by using visual representation (e.g., steps and line drawings).

MU.A.3.1.2.K.1. The student demonstrates melodic direction (upward, downward, and same) and register (high and low) through physical response and visual representation.

FL.MU.A.2.1. Music: Skills and Techniques: The student performs on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

MU.A.2.1.1. The student performs independently simple patterns and melodies on rhythmic and melodic classroom instruments (e.g., percussion instruments and barred instruments) and maintains a steady tempo.

MU.A.2.1.1.K.1. The student performs a steady beat based on a personal and/or group sense of pulse.

MU.A.2.1.1.K.2. The student echoes rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, quarter rests, and two eighth notes on simple rhythm instruments.

MU.A.2.1.1.K.3. The student echoes simple melodic patterns on instruments (for example, barred instruments).

MU.A.2.1.1.K.4. The student performs with appropriate posture and position to produce a characteristic tone quality on nonpitched instruments (for example, rhythm sticks, triangle, wood block).

MU.A.2.1.1.K.5. The student performs simple rhythmic patterns and sound effects on instruments to accompany poems, rhymes, chants, and songs.

MU.A.2.1.2. The student performs expressively with appropriate dynamics and tempos on classroom and ethnic instruments.

MU.A.2.1.2.K.1. The student demonstrates expressive qualities (for example, loud-soft, fast-slow) while playing classroom and ethnic instruments.

MU.A.3.1.3. The student writes the notation for simple rhythmic patterns that have been performed by someone else.

MU.A.3.1.3.K.1. The student represents long and short sounds visually that have been performed by someone else.

FL.MU.B.1.1. Music: Creation and Communication: The student improvises melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

MU.B.1.1.1. The student improvises appropriate 'musical answers' (e.g., simple rhythmic variations) in the same style to given rhythmic phrases.

MU.B.1.1.1.K.1. The student improvises a short rhythmic pattern in response to a musical prompt.

MU.B.1.1.1.K.2. The student improvises a short melodic pattern in response to a musical prompt.

MU.B.1.1.2. The student improvises simple rhythmic and melodic patterns and accompaniments.

MU.B.1.1.2.K.1. The student improvises a short free-form song.

FL.MU.B.2.1. Music: Creation and Communication: The student composes and arranges music within specific guidelines.

MU.B.2.1.1. The student creates simple accompaniments with classroom instruments.

MU.B.2.1.1.K.1. The student creates sound effects for songs, poems, and stories.

FL.MU.C.1.1. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands music in relation to culture and history.

MU.C.1.1.1. The student knows music from several different genres and cultures (e.g., vocal and instrumental, African and Latin American).

MU.C.1.1.1.K.1. The student knows that music is different in other places.

MU.C.1.1.1.K.2. The student recognizes music of contrasting cultures.

MU.C.1.1.2. The student understands how rhythm and tone color are used in different types of music around the world.

MU.C.1.1.2.K.1. The student understands that music can differ in various cultures.

MU.C.1.1.3. The student knows the general cultural and/or historical settings of various types of music (e.g., songs related to American celebrations and daily life).

MU.C.1.1.3.K.1. The student knows that music is a part of celebrations and daily life.

FL.MU.D.1.1. Music: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student listens to, analyzes, and describes music.

MU.D.1.1.1. The student knows how to respond to selected characteristics of music (e.g., the melodic phrase is the same or different, the tempo is fast or slow, and the volume is loud or soft) through appropriate movement.

MU.D.1.1.1.K.1. The student responds to selected characteristics of music, including fast and slow, soft and loud, high and low, and upward and downward, through purposeful movement.

MU.D.1.1.2. The student identifies, upon hearing, familiar instruments and voice types (e.g., trumpet, piano, child, or adult).

MU.D.1.1.2.K.1. The student differentiates between speaking and singing voices.

MU.D.1.1.2.K.2. The student identifies classroom instruments by sound source, including wood and metal.

MU.D.1.1.2.K.3. The student identifies a variety of environmental sound sources.

MU.D.1.1.3. The student knows a simple music vocabulary (e.g., fast, slow, loud, and soft) to describe what is heard in a variety of musical styles.

MU.D.1.1.3.K.1. The student describes specific music characteristics using appropriate vocabulary (fast-slow, loud-soft, high-low, and upward-downward).

MU.D.1.1.4. The student understands how music can communicate ideas suggesting events, feelings, moods, or images.

MU.D.1.1.4.K.1. The student describes feelings communicated through music.

FL.MU.D.2.1. Music: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student evaluates music and music performance.

MU.D.2.1.1. The student identifies simple criteria for the evaluation of performances and compositions.

MU.D.2.1.1.K.1. The student uses simple criteria for evaluating performances (for example, like or dislike, happy or sad).

MU.D.2.1.2. The student knows how to offer simple, constructive suggestions for the improvement of his or her own and others' performances.

MU.D.2.1.2.K.1. The student evaluates one's own and others' performances and describes what was successful.

FL.MU.E.1.1. Music: Applications to Life: The student understands the relationship between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

MU.E.1.1.1. The student understands how concepts within and between art forms are related (e.g., shape and line in music and art; and sequence and meter in music, theatre, and dance).

MU.E.1.1.1.K.1. The student demonstrates basic understanding of concepts in music and the visual arts that are similar (for example, repetition).

MU.E.1.1.2. The student understands how music is related to other subjects (e.g., how vibrations, which are studied in science, produce musical sounds).

MU.E.1.1.2.K.1. The student identifies ways in which language arts relates to music (for example, rhyming words, song storybooks).

FL.MU.E.2.1. Music: Applications to Life: The student understands the relationship between music and the world beyond the school setting.

MU.E.2.1.1. The student knows how music is used in daily life (e.g., for entertainment or relaxation).

MU.E.2.1.1.K.1. The student understands the use of music in daily life (for example, birthday parties, holidays).

MU.E.2.1.2. The student knows appropriate audience behavior in a given music setting (e.g., religious service, symphony concert, and folk or pop concert).

MU.E.2.1.2.K.1. The student demonstrates appropriate audience behavior in such settings as classroom and school performances (for example, listening quietly during a performance, clapping at the end of a performance).

MU.E.2.1.3. The student understands that music preferences reflect one's own experiences.

MU.E.2.1.3.K.1. The student identifies a personal preference for a specific song.

MU.E.2.1.4. The student understands the role of musicians (e.g., song leader, conductor, composer, and performer) in various music settings and/or cultures.

MU.E.2.1.4.K.1. The student identifies musicians in the school and community.

FL.TH.A.1.1. Theatre: Skills and Techniques: The student acts by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisation and formal or informal productions.

TH.A.1.1.1. The student creates imagined characters, relationships, and environments, using basic acting skills (e.g., sensory recall, concentration, pantomime, and vocal improvisation).

TH.A.1.1.2. The student creates, individually and in groups, animate and inanimate objects through the movement of the human body (e.g., pantomimes living and non-living objects such as rocks, trees, and celestial objects).

FL.TH.A.2.1. Theatre: Skills and Techniques: The student directs by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for formal and informal productions.

TH.A.2.1.1. The student communicates with others ideas about characterization and plot development within dramatic-play activities.

FL.TH.A.3.1. Theatre: Skills and Techniques: The student designs, conceptualizes, and interprets formal and informal productions.

TH.A.3.1.1. The student designs the playing space to communicate character and action in specific locales.

FL.TH.B.1.1. Theatre: Creation and Communication: The student improvises, writes, and refines scripts based on heritage, imagination, literature, history, and personal experiences.

TH.B.1.1.1. The student creates simple scenes that have a setting, dialogue, and plot.

FL.TH.C.1.1. Theatre: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands context by analyzing the role of theater, film, television, and electronic media in the past and present.

TH.C.1.1.1. The student expresses remembered ideas, feelings, and concepts of common daily activities through dramatic play.

TH.C.1.1.2. The student understands how we learn about ourselves, our relationships and our environment through forms of theater (e.g., film, television, plays, and electronic media).

TH.C.1.1.3. The student understands characters, situations, and dramatic media from the stories and dramas of various cultures.

FL.TH.D.1.1. Theatre: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student analyzes, criticizes, and constructs meaning from formal and informal theater, film, television, and electronic media.

TH.D.1.1.1. The student portrays imaginary sensory experiences (e.g., smelling a flower or touching velvet) through dramatic play.

TH.D.1.1.2. The student gives reasons for personal preferences for formal or informal performances.

TH.D.1.1.3. The student understands appropriate audience responses to dramatic presentations.

TH.D.1.1.4. The student understands how theater communicates events of everyday life.

TH.D.1.1.5. The student understands the similarities and differences between play acting, pretending, and real life.

FL.TH.E.1.1. Theatre: Applications to Life: The student understands applications of the role of theater, film, television, and electronic media in everyday life.

TH.E.1.1.1. The student uses role playing to resolve everyday conflict situations (e.g., fighting over a toy, bullying others, and stealing someone's property).

TH.E.1.1.2. The student understands the similarities and differences among how emotions are expressed in theater, dramatic media, music, dance, and visual art.

TH.E.1.1.3. The student cooperates with others to create formal and informal theatrical works and to solve the problems inherent in simple scenes (e.g., listens while others speak, sets goals, shows self- discipline, and meets deadlines).

FL.VA.A.1.1. Visual Arts: Skills and Techniques: The student understands and applies media, techniques, and processes.

VA.A.1.1.1. The student uses two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, tools, and processes to depict works of art from personal experiences, observation, or imagination.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.1. The student creates works that are personally meaningful and draw from experience, observation, or imagination.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.2. The student draws with chalk, crayon, marker, and pencil.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.3. The student paints using tempera, watercolor, and fingerpaint.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.4. The student uses a variety of painting tools (for example, brushes, sponges, fingers).

VA.A.1.1.1.K.5. The student draws and paints on large paper with a variety of brushes, crayons, pencils, and markers.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.6. The student prints by stamping one surface against another.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.7. The student uses tearing, cutting, and folding techniques.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.8. The student uses gluing and pasting techniques.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.9. The student uses forming techniques with materials such as clay and paper.

VA.A.1.1.1.K.10. The student uses basic computer technology related to visual arts.

VA.A.1.1.2. The student uses art materials and tools to develop basic processes and motor skills, in a safe and responsible manner.

VA.A.1.1.2.K.1. The student works with art tools and materials safely.

VA.A.1.1.2.K.2. The student explores tools/materials appropriately.

VA.A.1.1.2.K.3. The student follows directed cleanup procedures.

VA.A.1.1.3. The student distinguishes the differences within and among art materials, techniques, processes, and organizational structures, such as elements and principles of design.

VA.A.1.1.3.K.1. The student recognizes differences among art materials and processes.

VA.A.1.1.3.K.2. The student identifies elements of art (for example, line, shape, color, texture).

VA.A.1.1.3.K.3. The student identifies principles of design (for example, pattern, repetition).

VA.A.1.1.4. The student uses good craftsmanship when producing works of art.

VA.A.1.1.4.K.1. The student identifies good craftsmanship.

FL.VA.B.1.1. Visual Arts: Creation and Communication: The student creates and the student communicates a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas using knowledge of structures and functions of visual arts.

VA.B.1.1.1. The student knows how subject matter, symbols, and ideas are used to communicate meaning in works of art.

VA.B.1.1.1.K.1. The student knows that subject matter can be real or imaginary.

VA.B.1.1.1.K.2. The student knows that visual symbols are used to convey meaning.

VA.B.1.1.1.K.3. The student knows that pictures tell a story.

VA.B.1.1.2. The student understands that works of art can communicate an idea and elicit a variety of responses through the use of selected media, technique, and processes.

VA.B.1.1.2.K.1. The student knows that people can express themselves visually.

VA.B.1.1.2.K.2. The student interprets personal experiences visually using selected media.

VA.B.1.1.3. The student knows a variety of purposes for creating works of art.

VA.B.1.1.3.K.1. The student describes choices made in his/her artwork.

VA.B.1.1.3.K.2. The student experiences artwork that is created for varied, specific purposes (for example, storybook illustrations, stained glass).

VA.B.1.1.4. The student uses the elements of art and the principles of design to effectively communicate ideas.

VA.B.1.1.4.K.1. The student knows that works of art express an idea.

VA.B.1.1.4.K.2. The student uses specific elements of art and principles of design to communicate an idea.

FL.VA.C.1.1. Visual Arts: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

VA.C.1.1.1. The student knows that specific works of art belong to particular cultures, times, and places.

VA.C.1.1.1.K.1. The student views and discusses art from various cultures, time periods, and places.

VA.C.1.1.2. The student understands how artists generate and express ideas according to their individual, cultural, and historical experiences.

VA.C.1.1.2.K.1. The student identifies one or more well-known artists and their artwork.

FL.VA.D.1.1. Visual Arts: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student assesses, evaluates, and responds to the characteristics of works of art.

VA.D.1.1.1. The student uses age-appropriate vocabulary to describe, analyze, interpret, and makes judgments about works of art.

VA.D.1.1.1.K.1. The student distinguishes between non-art objects and works of art (for example, a tree and a painting of a tree).

VA.D.1.1.1.K.2. The student makes observations about artworks using elements of art and principles of design.

VA.D.1.1.2. The student understands that works of art can be rendered realistically, symbolically, or abstractly.

VA.D.1.1.2.K.1. The student experiences artworks in a variety of styles (for example, Tanner's Banjo Player and Picasso's Three Musicians).

VA.D.1.1.3. The student knows the difference between an original work of art and a reproduction.

VA.D.1.1.3.K.1. The student identifies original artworks.

FL.VA.E.1.1. Visual Arts: Applications to Life: The student makes connections between the visual arts, other disciplines, and the real world.

VA.E.1.1.1. The student understands that people create art for various reasons and that everyday objects are designed by artists.

VA.E.1.1.1.K.1. The student examines examples of everyday objects designed by artists.

VA.E.1.1.1.K.2. The student understands that artists' creations influence home, school, and work life.

VA.E.1.1.2. The student knows various careers that are available to artists.

VA.E.1.1.2.K.1. The student identifies a career in art (for example, artists, designers, architects, teachers).

VA.E.1.1.3. The student understands and the student uses appropriate behavior in a cultural experience.

VA.E.1.1.3.K.1. The student uses good observation and listening skills during a museum visit, and/or classroom art presentations.