Hawaii State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 1

HI.1. Visual Arts: Understand and apply art materials, techniques, and processes in the creation of works of art and understand how the visual arts communicate a variety of ideas, feelings, and experiences

FA.1.1.1. How the arts are organized: Use various types of art media

FA.1.1.2. How the arts are organized: Use the elements of line, shape, form, texture, color, and the principles of repetition and variety in artwork using a variety of art mediums

FA.1.1.3. How the arts are organized: Differentiate between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork

FA.1.1.4. How the arts are organized: Demonstrate how mixing primary colors can create secondary colors

FA.1.1.5. How the arts communicate: Use familiar subjects and experiences to create original works of art

FA.1.1.6. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Compare artwork from various cultures that have similar themes and subject matter

HI.2. Music: Understand and apply elements of music and understand how music communicates ideas, feelings, and experiences across cultures

FA.1.2.1. How the arts are organized: Use simple patterns of rhythm and pitch using quarter notes, quarter rest, and eighth notes

FA.1.2.2. How the arts are organized: Use the notations for four-beat rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, quarter rests, and eighth notes

FA.1.2.3. How the arts are organized: Use a four-beat melodic or rhythmic pattern to demonstrate the simple musical form of 'echo'

FA.1.2.4. How the arts are organized: Recognize, by sound quality, various characteristics of instruments and vocal sounds

FA.1.2.5. How the arts are organized: Ring a simple song with appropriate vocal range from memory

FA.1.2.6. How the arts are organized: Identify families of instruments and how each sound is produced

FA.1.2.7. How the arts communicate: Explain how music can communicate ideas and moods

FA.1.2.8. How the arts shape and reflect: Culture compare music used for special occasions from various cultures

HI.3. Drama and Theatre: Understand and apply the skills of acting, design, and technical theatre and understand the role of drama in various cultures throughout history

FA.1.3.1. How the arts are organized: Recognize theatrical vocabulary

FA.1.3.2. How the arts are organized: Adapt and dramatize a familiar story

FA.1.3.3. How the arts communicate: Evaluate personal feelings about a theatrical work

FA.1.3.4. How the arts communicate: Critique characterization in a theatrical work

FA.1.3.5. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Analyze the dramatic elements of culture that exist in stories, songs, fairy tales, fables, and nursery rhymes

HI.4. Dance: Understand and apply elements of dance, appreciate how dance communicates meaning, and recognize its role across cultures and throughout history

FA.1.4.1. How the arts are organized: Create a dance that consists of a beginning, middle, and end

FA.1.4.2. How the arts are organized: Apply the element of space (e.g., place, size, level, direction) to create simple movement sequences

FA.1.4.3. How the arts are organized: Apply the element of energy - smooth/sharp (attack), heavy/light (weight), tight/loose (flow) - to create simple movement sequences

FA.1.4.4. How the arts are organized: Repeat a simple movement sequence by imitation

FA.1.4.5. How the arts communicate: Describe how an idea is communicated through dance

FA.1.4.6. How the arts shape and reflect: Culture describe the role of dance from a variety of cultures

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