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I. Perform
- Kindergarten
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Identify body parts by touching: head, neck, arms, legs, feet, shoulders, and knees.
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I. Perform
- Kindergarten
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Move at moderate tempo while in personal space, with the teacher and without the teacher.
- standard
I. Perform
- Kindergarten
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Explore personal space while standing, sitting.
- standard
I. Perform
- Kindergarten
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Explore low, middle, and high levels.
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I. Perform
- Kindergarten
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Introduce and explore non-locomotor/axial movements in personal space by bending, stretching, reaching and twisting.
- standard
I. Perform
- Kindergarten
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Explore basic locomotor movements; e.g., walk, run, gallop, slide, and jump moving in a straight pathway.
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).
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Conventions of Standard English.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Recognize and name end punctuation.
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Conventions of Standard English.
- Kindergarten
- Michigan State ELA Standards
- Language
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.