Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 1

AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.

1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment.

1.1.2. Students will demonstrate moving in different directions using various loco motor movements. (Forward; Backward; Sideward)

1.1.3. Students will demonstrate laterality.

1.1.4. Students will combine two or more nonlocomotor/axial movements.

1.1.5. Students will demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.

1.1.6. Students will create shapes with the body at high, middle, and low levels from the floor.

1.1.7. Students will define and move in personal and general space.

1.1.8. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.

1.1.9. Students will demonstrate movements using a variety of pathways/floor patterns

1.1.10. Students will define appropriate dance vocabulary.

AL.1.2. Dance: Creation, Production, and Evaluation.

1.2.11. Students will create sequences that have a beginning, middle, and ending.

1.2.12. Students will improvise movement sequences.

1.2.13. Students will perform choreographic structure using AB form.

1.2.14. Students will discuss and use basic loco motor patterns to express feelings.

1.2.15. Students will observe and discuss how dance is different from other movement.

1.2.16. Students will compare different endings to dances.

1.2.17. Students will describe the use of the elements in a dance. (Time; Space; Force)

1.2.18. Students will discuss opinions about dance composition. (Emotional reaction; Time: metric, organic)

AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.

1.3.19. Students will discuss and perform folk dances from various cultures.

1.3.20. Students will discuss and perform dances from various time periods.

AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.

1.4.21. Students will discuss the relationship of healthy eating and resting to dance performance.

1.4.22. Students will discuss the effect that dance as an exercise has on the body.

1.4.23. Students will create dances using math concepts.

1.4.24. Students will create dances from various short stories (reading).

1.4.25. Students will create dances based on themes from science.

AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.

1.5.26. Students will explore the use of technology through a variety of compact discs for dance accompaniment.

AL.2.1. General Music: Sing.

2.1.1. Students will sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with other students.

2.1.2. Students will sing with proper vocal technique. (Pure head tone; Good diction; Good posture; on pitch; in rhythm)

2.1.3. Students will sing songs representing diverse cultures.

2.1.4. Students will use age-appropriate vocal range.

2.1.5. Students will demonstrate the difference between speaking and singing.

2.1.6. Students will sing expressively.

AL.2.2. General Music: Perform on Instruments.

2.2.7. Students will perform steady beats on classroom instruments.

2.2.8. Students will echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.

2.2.9. Students will perform accompaniment on pitched and unhitched classroom instruments.

AL.2.3. General Music: Read, Notate.

2.3.10. Students will read simple rhythmic patterns. (Quarter notes and quarter rests; Paired eighth notes; half note)

2.3.11. Students will recognize and use standard notational symbols and terms.

2.3.12. Students will identify notation on the staff as being on a line or in a space.

AL.2.4. General Music: Listen, Analyze, and Describe.

2.4.13. Students will recognize the difference between high and low sounds and upward and downward melodic direction.

2.4.14. Students will recognize melodic contour.

2.4.15. Students will respond to a melody through movement while listening to music.

2.4.16. Students will identify the title of a familiar song from listening to the melody.

2.4.17. Students will differentiate between solo and group performance.

2.4.18. Students will recognize various vocal and instrumental timbres.

2.4.19. Students will recognize form.

AL.2.5. General Music: Improvise, Compose, and Arrange.

2.5.20. Students will improvise answers to given rhythmic phrases.

2.5.21. Express musical ideas using creative movement and body percussion.

AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.

2.6.22. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.

2.6.23. Students will recognize and practice accepted performance behavior.

AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.

2.7.24. Students will compare relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.

2.7.25. Students will examine music in relation to history and culture.

AL.3.1. Theatre: History.

3.1.1. Students will compare dramatic situations to real life.

3.1.2. Students will engage in dramatic activities that depict characters from diverse historical periods and cultures.

3.1.3. Students will explore real and pretend dramatic activities. (See Theatre-Related Materials-Interdisciplinary Matrix.)

AL.3.2. Theatre: Criticism.

3.2.4. Students will recognize emotions evoked by a performance.

3.2.5. Students will identify the who, what, and where in theatre experiences.

3.2.6. Students will describe the appearance and actions of the characters.

3.2.7. Students will give reasons for characters' choices.

3.2.8. Students will explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different from their own.

AL.3.3. Theatre: Aesthetics.

3.3.9. Students will recognize and practice acceptable audience behavior.

3.3.10. Students will respond to sensory stimuli in the arts.

AL.3.4. Theatre: Production.

3.4.11. Students will collaborate to establish playing spaces for classroom dramatizations.

3.4.12. Students will select and safely organize available materials for scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

3.4.13. Students will tell stories from literature and life experiences through improvisation and Reader's Theatre. (See Theatre-Related Resources-Reader's Theatre.)

3.4.14. Students will assume roles based on personal experience, heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

3.4.15. Students will collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.

3.4.16. Students will apply concepts of beginning and ending to stories and story dramatization.

3.4.17. Students will use movement to explore thought, feeling, and roles from life, literature, and history.

AL.4.1. Visual Arts: History.

4.1.1. Students will identify art associated with various cultures.

4.1.2. Students will compare differences in artistic styles.

4.1.3. Students will describe what is observed in selected works of art.

4.1.4. Students will identify subject matter in works of art. (Still Life; Landscape; Portrait; Genre pieces)

4.1.5. Students will identify different art forms. (Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture)

4.1.6. Students will identify ways art records history.

4.1.7. Students will discover ways that people are involved in the visual arts within a community.

4.1.8. Students will define selected visual art vocabulary. (Form; Subject; Object; Line; Shape; Color;

AL.4.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.

4.2.9. Students will identify various types of line.

4.2.10. Students will identify kinds of shapes.

4.2.11. Students will identify various kinds of textures.

4.2.12. Students will use vocabulary associated with looking at and talking about art.

4.2.13. Students will observe and discuss art in nature and in the environment.

4.2.14. Students will observe, describe, and identify features, similarities, and differences in art work.

4.2.15. Students will identify media used in works of art.

4.2.16. Students will observe and describe balance in forms that are natural and man-made.

AL.4.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.

4.3.17. Students will express feelings generated by a work of art.

4.3.18. Students will identify aesthetic qualities (moods, feelings, ideas, emotions) in both natural and man-made environments.

4.3.19. Students will observe and describe repetition in forms that are natural and man-made.

4.3.20. Students will observe and describe the effect of weather conditions on objects.

4.3.21. Students will use knowledgeable resources in the community to identify art work.

4.3.22. Students will observe visual and tactile qualities of the world around them.

4.3.23. Students will observe and discuss the visual characteristics of forms that are natural and man-made.

AL.4.4. Visual Arts: Production.

4.4.24. Students will use a variety of two-dimensional processes and materials.

4.4.25. Students will use a variety of three-dimensional processes and materials.

4.4.26. Students will recognize colors. (Red; Yellow; Blue; Green; Orange; Violet)

4.4.27. Students will experiment with mixing colors.

4.4.28. Students will recognize neutrals. (Black; White; Gray; Brown)

4.4.29. Students will experiment with mixing neutrals.

4.4.30. Students will recognize and use different kinds of lines and shapes. (Curved; Straight; Regular; Irregular; Round; Oval; Square; Rectangle; Triangle)

4.4.31. Students will use different kinds of textures in creating works of art.

4.4.32. Students will investigate line, shape, form, texture, and color through observation and production.

4.4.33. Students will explore the use of symbols and signs to communicate ideas.

4.4.34. Students will use art media and processes to express ideas, feelings, and moods. (Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture)

4.4.35. Students will investigate and use visual relationships when creating a work of art.

4.4.36. Students will combine shapes to create new shapes.

4.4.37. Students will use technology to investigate visual images.

4.4.39. Students will utilize technology to identify qualities in art work.