Kindergarten Fine Arts Arkansas Standards

Students will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Students will synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Connecting

Students will apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Students will interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Students will perceive and analyze artistic work.

Responding

Students will convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Students will develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Students will analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

Performing

Students will refine and complete artistic work.

Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating

I can identify careers in music.

I can explore different cultures through listening, singing, moving, and playing with teacher guidance.

I can link music to other subjects.

I can share a story that could become music.

I can explore and identify personal and expressive choices of music, using a rating system.

I can explore the creator’s choices of ideas and sounds in his or her music.

I can tell why a musical idea is used.

I can choose music based on what I like.

I can use manners with guidance in rehearsal, as an audience member, or as a performer.

I can identify the role of the conductor and follow his or her cues.

I can sing and play a variety of simple music.

I can show personal interest in music I choose

I can explore patterns in music.

I can explore vocal and instrumental sounds.

I can share my own musical ideas.

I can explore my own musical ideas.

I can understand steady beat and identify quarter notes and quarter rests.

I can identify high and low sounds, as well as silence.

I can explore found sounds, body percussion, and instruments.

I can experiment vocally and instrumentally with expression and elements of music.

I can explore and create short melodic and rhythmic patterns by sight and sound.

I can list several careers in music.

I can explore different periods of history through listening, singing, moving, and playing with teacher guidance.

I can identify basic connections between art forms and subjects.

I can identify and discuss with others a personal story that could become music

I can explain personal and expressive preferences with guidelines, using a rating system.

I can identify musical concepts and how they support the creator’s choices.

I can explore how a musical idea supports different styles of music.

I can tell why I like or dislike a piece of music.

I can use manners in rehearsal, as an audience member, or as a performer.

I can respond to my conductor’s cues.

I can identify simple music symbols.

I can sing and play a variety of music with expression.

I can explain to others why I like the music I choose.

I can recognize simple forms.

I can identify different types of sound.

I can share revised personal musical ideas.

I can change my musical ideas based on feedback.

I can recognize forte and piano.

I can recognize the staff, treble clef, half notes, half rests, paired eighth notes and tell the difference between line and space notes.

I can create rhythmic patterns with ideas I’ve explored.

I can use rhythm patterns, songs, or words to create a musical idea.

I can improvise a musical idea using melodic and rhythmic patterns.

Connecting

Students will synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate: Students will relate personal, cultural, and global perspectives and beliefs to theatrical works.

I can identify emotions a character in a play is feeling and talk about a time when I felt the same way.

I can talk about ways that I am the same and different from characters in a play.

I can make connections between a story and myself.

Relate: Students will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Incorporate: Students will recognize and incorporate multiple art forms, cultural traditions, and social themes in theatrical works.

I can use knowledge from other content areas in my theatrical work.

I can use what I already know when I am acting.

I can use knowledge and skills from other art forms in my theatrical work.

Research: Students will investigate historical contexts and/or cultural influences in theatrical works.

I can talk about how stories are different from one another.

I can tell others about myself.

I can explore a variety of stories.

I can tell a short story based on someone else’s experiences.

I can compare similar stories from multiple cultures.

I can tell a short story based on a personal experience.

Creating

Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Imagine: Students will conceive plot, characters, dialogue, and stage movement through exploration.

I can imitate the actions of the characters in a familiar story.

I can imagine how changing the plot of a story will lead to a different ending.

I can adapt the behavior of a character in a familiar story.

Design: Students will design and create technical elements for a drama/theatre work.

I can create props, puppets, or costume pieces alone or with others.

I can describe how props, costumes, or puppets demonstrate character traits.

Characterize: Students will explore characters and describe vocal qualities, physical qualities, and movement that reveal the character’s traits.

I can imitate people, creatures, or things using body and facial expression.

I can identify the five senses and the actor’s tools.

I can suggest ways to use my voice and body when telling a familiar story or being a familiar character.

Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Develop: Students will explore story elements to develop and write original material.

I can work with others to retell a familiar story.

I can work with others to create a new story that has a beginning, middle, and end.

I can add details and new ideas when retelling a familiar story.

Collaborate: Students will collaborate with a creative team to prepare for a drama/theatre work.

I can cooperate with others and share my ideas when acting out a story.

I can cooperate with others to make decisions when acting out a story.

Students will refine and complete artistic work.

Refine: Students will apply self-reflection and peer feedback to refine artistic work.

I can work with others to change a familiar story.

I can ask and answer questions about a story.

I can work with others to change an original story.

Performing

Students will select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Choose: Students will make appropriate acting and staging choices that advance the story.

I can tell who the characters of a story or play are and where the play takes place.

I can describe the characters, their relationships, and their actions from a story or play.

Select: Students will select voice, movement, and expression to interpret a drama/theatre work.

I can use body language and facial expressions to show how my character is feeling in a scene.

I can change my voice and use body language and facial expressions to show specific character traits.

Students will develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Prepare: Students will cultivate physical and vocal qualities to develop characters.

I can use my face, body, voice, and movement to show ideas and feelings.

I can improve my communication with others by practicing physical and vocal skills.

Rehearse: Students will apply theatre exercises to technical acting skills.

I can use imagination, voices, sounds, and movement when acting out stories.

I can connect my voice and body movements to the way my character is feeling in a play.

Prepare: Students will use and design technical elements.

I can use costumes or props when acting.

I can use lights, sound, special effects, costumes, and sets in a performance.

Students will convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Share: Students will present a variety of drama/theatre works for diverse audiences.

I can imitate people, creatures, or things and communicate emotions using my voice and body.

I can use my voice and body to portray a specific familiar character for an audience.

Responding

Students will perceive and analyze artistic work.

Reflect: The student will analyze artistic and technical choices in an individual or ensemble performance of a drama/theatre work.

I can identify my own artistic choices.

I can share how a performance makes me feel.

I can identify artistic and technical choices others have made in a theatrical work.

Observe: Students will exhibit appropriate audience behavior.

I can use manners with guidance in rehearsal, as an audience member, or as a performer.

I can use manners in rehearsal, as an audience member, or as a performer

Students will interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Interpret: Students will analyze the influence of cultural perspectives on the creation and interpretation of a drama/theatre work.

I can explain why a character does something.

I can identify the characters and setting of the play

I can explain why a character does something and what will happen to the character based on those choices.

Interpret: Students will analyze the influence of personal perspectives on the creation and interpretation of a drama/theatre work.

I can compare my reactions to those of a character in a given situation.

I can compare my emotions to those of a character in a given situation.

Students will apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Critique: Students will evaluate theatrical works.

I can listen respectfully and respond appropriately to a theatrical experience.

I can think about what I am seeing and hearing when I am an audience member and make personal connections.

Impact: Students will examine the impact of a theatrical work on an audience.

I can connect my decisions to the decisions a character makes.

I can discuss decisions that different characters would make in the same situation.

Students will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Students will synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Connecting

Students will apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Students will interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Students will perceive and analyze artistic work.

Responding

Students will convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Students will develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Students will select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Presenting

Students will refine and complete artistic work.

Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating

I can tell why a work of art was made.

I can make art that tells a story about my life.

I can choose a favorite artwork and explain why I chose it.

I can talk about how an artwork tells a story or has a message.

I can compare and group images based on certain features.

I can tell how and why we use art.

I can show and tell about an art museum.

I can talk about why people collect art.

I can choose my own art to share and explain my choice.

I can use art words to explain how I could change my art.

I can make art by looking at the world around me.

I can safely experiment with materials and tools.

I can use observation to plan my work.

I can use my imagination to play with materials.

I can find things that are the same and different in artwork from different places.

I can create works of art about people, places, and things in my life.

I can use art vocabulary to explain why I like a work of art.

I can explain how the objects and elements within an artwork represent ideas.

I can describe images from nature and things that are constructed.

I can explain what an image means.

I can explore how people use art to tell about themselves.

I can identify ways in which art is prepared for display

I can organize artwork based on the same idea for an exhibit.

I can tell why some works of art are more important than others.

I can use art vocabulary to talk or write about how I made my art and how I could revise it.

I can reuse objects to make something new.

I can improve my art skills by safely using materials and tools.

I can plan and create art that is interesting to me.

I can share my ideas and materials with others to reach an artistic solution.