Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

GA.1. Fine Arts: Dance

1.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in developmental warm-up exercises.

1.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in activities using principles of dance technique.

1.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates nonlocomotor axial movement, such as bending, twisting, and swinging.

1.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates locomotor movement, such as walking, running, and hopping, and concepts, such as transfer of weight and change of direction.

1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops awareness of spatial concepts (e.g., personal space and general space).

1.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explains how health and nutrition enhance dance ability.

1.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates shapes and level changes through movement.

1.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates awareness of force (energy) (e.g., smooth, tight, loose, and vibratory).

1.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates the ability to move in various directions and patterns.

1.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to steady beat or changes in tempo through movement.

1.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Improvises movement based on own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness.

1.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates the ability to work with a partner.

1.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops self-discipline and positive work habits through dance.

1.14. Connections: Relates dance to other subject areas.

1.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops the ability to describe one's own dance as well as another's dance.

1.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies within a dance sequence a beginning, middle, and end.

1.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies various approaches to solving a compositional question.

1.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Implements various approaches to solving a compositional question.

1.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.

1.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in dance activities representing a variety of cultures.

GA.2. Fine Arts: General Music

2.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to music through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.

2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes repeated patterns in melody, rhythm, and text.

2.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies contrasts in music: loud-soft and fast-slow.

2.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the sounds of classroom instruments (i.e., drums, autoharp, piano, and guitar).

2.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes between vocal and instrumental timbre.

2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with increasing accuracy in pitch and tone quality by singing developmentally appropriate songs.

2.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to a steady beat through movement.

2.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates awareness of steady beat through playing an instrument.

2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations.

2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple accompaniments using body percussion or classroom instruments.

2.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Moves expressively to music.

2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Selects and adds simple vocal and percussive sounds to songs, poems, and stories.

2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates growth in knowledge of music vocabulary appropriate to the level.

2.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates new texts for familiar songs.

2.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in group singing of rote songs.

2.16. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in musical activities representing a variety of cultures.

GA.3. Fine Arts: Theatre Arts

3.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses simple drama and theatre arts terms.

3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates behaviors needed to participate in drama activities.

3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the five senses and describes sensory experiences in immediate surroundings.

3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Reacts to imaginary objects and environments in drama activities.

3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates kinesthetic awareness, self-control, and expression.

3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Locates and uses designated playing area for drama.

3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses voice and speech to express thought, feeling, and role.

3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Assumes roles in drama activities.

3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses simple objects and available materials as props, scenery, and costumes for dramatic play and drama activities.

3.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Selects topics and stories to dramatize.

3.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Names the basic elements of drama: who, where, when, and what.

3.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Contributes to planning simple dramas verbally.

3.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Dramatizes stories and ideas in a variety of forms including dramatic play, story drama, pantomime, and/or choral speaking.

3.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in the creative drama process in a group setting: Pre-Playing (participates in warm-up activities, generates ideas about story, topic, or theme); Preparation (listens to story and discusses ideas, determines drama elements: who, when, where, and what; sequence of actions); Playing (assumes roles in drama); Evaluation/Reflection (critiques playing, discusses meaning); Replay (builds on suggestions, enhances with simple technical elements); Sharing (shares drama with the group).

3.15. Connections: Recognizes art forms of drama, music, dance, and visual arts.

3.16. Connections: Explores content from language arts, science, math, foreign language and fine arts through dramatic activities.

3.17. Connections: Dramatizes ideas, concepts, and events based on the Social Studies curriculum topic, My Family and My World.

3.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: States the difference between pretend and real life.

3.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: States personal reactions to dramatic presentations.

3.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Names the role of the audience.

3.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates awareness of and uses school, community, and professional resources for theatre experiences.

3.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Dramatizes stories from a variety of cultures.

GA.4. Fine Arts: Visual Arts

4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates art with different subjects and themes and from personal experiences.

4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks-drawings, painting, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media-emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture, and pattern).

4.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks.

4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.

4.5. Connections: Applies concepts and ideas from another discipline and its topics as sources of ideas for own artworks.

4.6. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Names and identifies colors, such as red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet, black, brown, white, and gray (pigment colors).

4.7. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Points out and describes lines, as thick, thin, straight, and broken.

4.8. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes and names shapes, such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and organic (free-form).

4.9. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes form as not flat.

4.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explores and names texture, such as smooth and rough.

4.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes colors, lines, shapes, textures, and patterns in artworks and in nature.

4.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes and compares subjects and themes of artworks.

4.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Uses art terms with emphasis on the elements of art to talk about own artworks and art reproductions.

4.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Expresses preference for one of two or three art reproductions.

4.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Offers ideas about what art is and who are artists.

4.16. Historical and Cultural Context: Views and talks about Western and non-Western artworks of significant artists that have recognizable subjects and themes.

4.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Points out clues in selected artworks that determine time and place.