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 ART 
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- Exploration and imaginative play with materials
 
- Collaborate in creative art making 
 
- Experiment to build skills in various media and approaches to artmaking
 
- Identify safe practice in the use of materials, tools, and equipment
 
- Create art that represents natural and constructed environments
 
 
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 1ST GRADE 
- Identify primary and secondary colors and discuss how color relates to feelings and moods
 
- Describe various types of line.
 
- Understand proportion and anatomy when creating art
 
- Find basic geometric shapes and forms in their world - plants, animals, figures, etc.
 
- Develop manual dexterity using scissors and other artmarking tools
 
 
 
2ND GRADE 
- Use basic geometric shapes and forms to develop works of art
 
- Learn and Identify the Elements of Art
 
- Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces
 
- Become familiar with the history of Art through an introduction to different artists and art styles
 
- Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity
 
 
 
3RD GRADE 
- Identify three-dimensional forms such as cubes, spheres, and cones
 
- Find examples of line repetition and pattern
 
- Understand viewpoint, such as "bird's eye" (something depicted as if from a very high vantage point) and "worm's eye" (something depicted as if from a very low vantage point)
 
- Explain basic perspective using foreground, middle ground, and background
 
- Identify genres such as portrait, still life, and landscape; and media such as marble, paint, photography, wood, etc.
 
 
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 4TH GRADE 
- Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept
 
- Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages
 
- Communicate feelings when engaging works of art and describe the subject matter, characteristics, and art-making approaches to discuss meanings of artwork
 
- Create works of art that reflect community or cultural traditions
 
- Collaborative creation of artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers
 
 
 
5TH GRADE 
-  Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art
 
- Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment
 
- Create artist statements using art vocabulary to describe personal choices made in art making
 
- Analyze the principles of design and how they impact design and facilitate artistic communication
 
- Interpret art through describing and analyzing feelings, subject matter, formal characteristics, artmaking approaches, and contextual information
 
 
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 6TH GRADE 
- Collaboratively interpret art and generate meanings through describing and analyzing feelings, subject matter, formal characteristics, artmaking approaches, and contextual information
 
- Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design
 
- Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly
 
- Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses
 
- Understand the use and application of color theory in art making, advertising and propaganda
 
 
 
7TH GRADE 
- Expand understanding of the elements and principles of design to include advanced and subtle concepts like form, balance, rhythm, etc.
 
- Understand what a picture plane is and how it relates to the composition
 
- Recognize and name certain artists by looking at the style of their work
 
- Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas
 
- Create works of art based on and inspired by the study of diverse cultures
 
 
 
8TH GRADE 
- Speculate on the historical and cultural context surrounding works of art
 
- Look for symbolism or hidden meaning in works of art
 
- Develop a deeper understanding of a specific artist and artwork through in-depth, arts-based research of artist’s life and work
 
- Select, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations
 
- Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress
 
 
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 MUSIC 
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 PRESCHOOL 
-  Identify fast and slow music
 
- Recognize loud and soft music
 
- Demonstrate differences between shouting and whispering
 
- Perform appropriate music to augment a story
 
 
 
KINDERGARTEN 
- Identify tone color of voices and environmental sounds
 
- Identify high and low sounds
 
- Identify long and short sounds
 
- Describe the theme or idea of a song
 
- Demonstrate difference between singing and speaking
 
 
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 1ST GRADE 
- Echo steady beat
 
- Distinguish between same and different phrases in simple song 
 
- Identify classroom instruments visually
 
- Connect sound characteristics to iconic notation
 
- Imitate loud/soft and high/low sounds
 
- Sing songs of various cultures in rhythm maintaining a steady tempo
 
 
2ND GRADE 
- Identify the sensory elements that create a mood, emotion or idea in music
 
- Identify classroom instruments by sound
 
- Use correct technique when playing classroom instruments
 
- Interpret basic rhythmic notation symbols
 
- Sing accurately using solfege symbols
 
 
3RD GRADE 
- Replicate beat in music
 
- Identify simple music forms when presented aurally
 
- Classify voice by range
 
- Identify orchestra/band instruments visually
 
- Echo, read and/or write rhythmic patterns with whole, half, and quarter,  notes/rests
 
 
 
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 4TH GRADE 
- Describe the tempo/dynamics in a simple musical example
 
- Replicate the rhythmic pattern in a simple musical example
 
- Define harmony and melody
 
- Identify orchestra/band instruments from aural examples
 
- Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns
 
- Sing or play simple rhythmic patterns and melodic patterns from written score
 
 
5TH GRADE 
- Describe tempo/dynamics of complex musical example
 
- Distinguish major and minor tonalities
 
- Distinguish melody with harmony
 
- Justify sensory elements to express a particular mood, emotion or idea in composition
 
- Write melodies accurately with rhythm patterns whole, half quarter, eighth and dotted rhythms
 
- Sing or play accurately simple rhythmic and melodic patterns from written score
 
 
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