Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.

1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment.

1.1.2. Students will identify and demonstrate basic loco motor movements (Walking, Running, Jumping, Hopping, Skipping, Leaping, Sliding, and Galloping).

1.1.3. Students will identify and demonstrate nonlocomotor/axial movements.

1.1.4. Students will identify and demonstrate movement at different tempos.

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

1.1.6. Students will move in personal and general space.

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

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

1.2.8. Students will improvise movement sequences.

1.2.9. Students will discuss and show emotions through movement.

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

1.2.11. Students will discuss opinions about dance compositions.

AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.

1.3.12. Students will perform folk dances from various cultures.

1.3.13. Students will perform dances from various time periods.

1.3.14. Students will discuss the music and dances from other cultures and time periods.

AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.

1.4.15. Students will discuss the connection of healthy eating and resting to dance performance.

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

1.4.17. Students will create dances using math concepts.

1.4.18. Students will create dances from various nursery rhymes (reading).

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

AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.

1.5.20. Students will explore the use of technology through the use of tape recorders.

AL.2.1. General Music: Sing.

2.1.1. Students will sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others. (Grade level song literature)

2.1.2. Students will sing with good posture maintaining a steady tempo.

2.1.3. Students will memorize songs representing diverse cultures.

2.1.4. Students will demonstrate the difference between speech and singing.

2.1.5. Students will use their age-appropriate vocal range utilizing head tone.

AL.2.2. General Music: Perform on Instruments.

2.2.6. Students will perform steady beats on instruments.

2.2.7. Students will echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.

AL.2.3. General Music: Read, Notate.

2.3.8. Students will read simple rhythmic patterns. (Quarter notes and quarter rests; paired eighth notes)

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

2.4.9. Students will recognize the difference between high and low sounds.

2.4.10. Students will recognize melodic contour.

2.4.11. Students will respond to a melody through movement.

2.4.12. Students will recognize various vocal timbres (tone qualities). (Speaking voice; Singing voice)

2.4.13. Students will differentiate between solo and group performance.

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

2.5.14. Students will express musical ideas using movement and body percussion.

AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.

2.6.15. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.

AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.

2.7.16. Students will recognize relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.

2.7.17. Students will consider music in relation to history and culture.

AL.3.1. Theatre: History.

3.1.1. Students will compare dramatic situations with real life.

3.1.2. Students will explore real and pretend situations from many cultures through dramatic activities.

3.1.3. Students will compare stories from different cultures through dramatic play.

AL.3.2. Theatre: Criticism.

3.2.4. Students will explain favorite elements in a performance.

3.2.5. Students will express theatre events physically, verbally, and pictorially.

3.2.6. Students will identify characters most admired and disliked.

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

AL.3.3. Theatre: Aesthetics.

3.3.8. Students will recognize and practice acceptable audience behavior.

3.3.9. Students will respond affectively to dramatic activities.

AL.3.4. Theatre: Production.

3.4.10. Students will tell stories from literature and life experiences through improvisation.

3.4.11. Students will explore a variety of roles in life and make-believe through guided dramatic play.

3.4.12. Students will demonstrate various loco motor and nonlocomotor movements for different characters.

3.4.13. Students will express various emotions through body, face, and voice.

AL.4.1. Visual Arts: History.

4.1.1. Students will describe differences in artistic styles.

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

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

4.1.4. Students will identify different art forms. (Drawing; Painting)

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

AL.4.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.

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

4.2.7. Students will observe art in nature and in the environment.

4.2.8. Students will identify features, similarities, and differences in art work.

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

AL.4.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.

4.3.10. Students will observe visual characteristics of forms that are natural and manmade.

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

4.3.12. Students will observe balance and repetition in forms that are natural and man-made.

4.3.13. Students will describe the effect of light on objects.

4.3.14. Students will use resources in the community to identify qualities in art work.

4.3.15. Students will identify tactile qualities of the world around them.

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

AL.4.4. Visual Arts: Production.

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

4.4.18. Students will use a variety of three-dimensional production methods and materials.

4.4.19. Students will identify colors. (Red; Yellow; Blue; Green; Orange; Violet)

4.4.20. Students will experiment with mixing colors.

4.4.21. Students will recognize and use different kinds of lines and shapes. (Curved; straight; Round; Square; Triangle).

4.4.22. Students will recognize different kinds of textures. (Smooth; Slick; Fuzzy; Rough; Course).

4.4.23. Students will observe lines, shapes, forms, textures, and color in nature.

4.4.24. Students will use art to express ideas, feelings, and moods.

4.4.25. Students will select and arrange materials in the creation of art.

4.4.26. Students will investigate and use visual relationships in a work of art.

4.4.27. Students will combine shapes to create new shapes.

4.4.28. Students will use technology to investigate visual images.