Hawaii State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

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.K.1.1. How the arts are organized: Use developmentally appropriate art vocabulary

FA.K.1.2. How the arts are organized: Use developmentally appropriate art media, tools, and processes

FA.K.1.3. How the arts communicate: Create art that expresses feelings about a familiar subject

FA.K.1.4. How the arts communicate: Explain preferences for particular works of art

FA.K.1.5. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Explain the concept that all artwork is meant to be appreciated and some artwork is also meant to be useful

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

FA.K.2.1. How the arts are organized: Use singing voice to echo short melodic patterns in appropriate range

FA.K.2.2. How the arts are organized: Demonstrate simple representation of high and low, short and long, loud and soft, fast and slow

FA.K.2.3. How the arts communicate: Use an instrument to maintain a steady beat using quarter notes and quarter rests

FA.K.2.4. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Identify various sources of music that can be heard in daily life and their purpose

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.K.3.1. How the arts are organized and applied: Perform imitative movements

FA.K.3.2. How the arts communicate: Explain how theatrical performances often cause emotional reactions

FA.K.3.3. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Demonstrate how cultures have used dramatic play to express human experience

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

FA.K.4.1. How the arts are organized: Use body, energy, space, and time to move in different ways

FA.K.4.2. How the arts communicate: Create movements that represent ideas, persons, and places

FA.K.4.3. How the arts communicate: Use movement to respond to a variety of stimuli, such as observed dance, words, sounds and songs

FA.K.4.4. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Perform a folk/traditional dance from another culture