Kindergarten Fine Arts Kansas Standards

Responding – Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning.

Performing – Realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.

Creating – Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.

Imagine: Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.

With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour).

With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).

Plan and Make: Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts.

With guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas.

With guidance, organize personal musical ideas using iconic notation and/or recording technology.

Evaluate and Refine: Evaluate and refine selected musical ideas to create musical work(s) that meet appropriate criteria.

With guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining personal musical ideas.

Present: Share creative musical work that coveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

With guidance, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas to peers.

Select: Select varied musical works to present based on interest, knowledge, technical skill, and context.

With guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections.

Analyze: Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance.

With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts (such as high/low, loud/soft, same/different) in a variety of music selected for performance.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo) that support the creators' expressive intent.

Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluate and refine personal and ensemble performances, individually or in collaboration with others.

With guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.

With guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music.

Present: Perform expressively, with appropriate interpretation and technical accuracy, and in a manner appropriate to the audience and context.

With guidance, perform music with expression.

Perform appropriately for the audience.

Select: Choose music appropriate for a specific purpose or context.

With guidance, list personal interests and experiences and demonstrate why they prefer some music selections over others.

Analyze: Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response.

With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used in music.

Interpret: Support interpretations of musical works that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent.

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent.

Evaluate: Support evaluations of musical works and performances based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

With guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

Identify local theaters and how they are a part of the community.

Develop acceptance of individuals in their theatrical community and the community as a whole.

Respond to the feelings/emotions within self and other's discovered through drama work and theatre experiences to demonstrate an understanding of the human experience.

Acceptance/Respect

Recognize how theatre communicates ideas about past and present cultural and social context.

Recognize the contextual aspects of performances from various cultures, times, and places.

Communicate the relationships between theatre and the world to make meaning and deepen understanding of cultural, global, and historical contexts.

Contextualize

Identify jobs related to theatre production.

Identify other content areas used in theatre.

Recognize elements and skills from other content areas used in theatre and use skills developed through theatre in other content and occupational areas.

Cross Curricula/Careers

Connect/Integrate

Identify how dramatic elements communicate meaning and elicit emotions.

Describe how theatre artists manipulate theatrical elements.

Describe the elements of live theatre. Identify how dramatic elements communicate meanings and elicit emotions in stories, performances, and electronic media.

Interpret and articulate perspectives on theatre experiences in one's own work and the work of others by using criteria such as aesthetics, beliefs, contexts, and critical perspectives.

Analyze/Critique/Evaluate

Appreciate/Respond

Identify and reflect upon personal meaning and emotional responses to performances and apply ideas to self and society.

Create a personal response to a performance and apply those ideas to self and society.

Reflect

Display appropriate emotional behavior throughout the production process.

Demonstrate active listening.

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior.

Use self-control and active listening to appreciate and respond to a performance.

Etiquette/Respect

Appreciate/Respond

Share stories about personal experiences.

Present realized artistic ideas in a theatrical form.

Produce/Present

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

Create a setting appropriate to a story.

Maintain a safe space for experimentation and risk taking for the development, revision, and refinement of new work, ideas, and perspectives.

Craft/Refine

Improvise a play using available materials.

Use improvisation to create dialogue for a script.

Sequence the steps needed for creating a project.

Identify and distinguish the various roles and responsibilities necessary for theatrical production.

Develop a performance from story book.

Listen to script, differentiating dialogue, stage direction, and character identification.

Identify and demonstrate stage position and movement.

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Follow appropriate safety procedures.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

List and describe the basic elements of a story.

Acquire the information and skills necessary for the planning and preparation of a theatrical work.

Organize/Plan

Develop/Perform

Collaborate with peers to perform a classroom dramatization.

Demonstrate active listening.

Problem solve with others.

Concentrate on the task at hand for a specific period of time.

Work with others.

Adjust playmaking to incorporate unintended occurrences.

Engage in creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences both individually and collaboratively.

Experience

Engage in collaborative, imaginative play.

Apply personal observation, knowledge, and experience to shape a work.

Improvise a character and setting from a story.

Engage in imaginative play. Problem solve when the unexpected happens.

Engage in self-directed play. Try new things. Improvise a character and dialogue. Improvise a setting appropriate for a story. Communicate through physical action and reaction.

Explore and imagine through creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences to discover diverse creative ideas.

Envision

Discover/Create

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Connecting

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Responding

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Presenting

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

Creating

Create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Identify a purpose of an artwork.

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.

Engage collaboratively in creative art making in response to an artistic problem.

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Explain the process of making art while creating.

Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.

Identify uses of art within one's personal environment.

Describe what an image represents.

Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.

Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.