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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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