Prepare, complete, and sign finished artwork.

Explore the basic uses of art materials to produce artwork.

Use a variety of lines, colors, and basic geometric shapes and patterns to creatively express feelings and personal experiences.

Participate in discussions of the aspects of environment, family, and home in the creation of art.

Select subject matter and communicate a personal story in a painting or drawing.

Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to kindergarten.

Add vocal and physical responses to a selection presented in kindergarten.

Identify echo songs and recognize the same and different sections of the music when presented aurally.

Use invented or standard notation to transcribe increasingly difficult rhythms and melodies.

Describe the music performed and presented in kindergarten by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

Introduce music vocabulary emphasizing opposites; i.e. fast and slow, loud and soft.

Categorize the timbre of non-pitched percussion instruments. Identify male, female, and children's voices.

Devise student created criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions.

Identify and support personal reactions to a musical selection.

Identify and describe distinguishing characteristics of starkly contrasting styles.

Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in kindergarten.

Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in kindergarten.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various kindergarten arts.

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections within the kindergarten curriculum.

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.

Imitate and reII. Create the sounds of objects, animals, and people.

Recognize a variety of real and non-real characters through guided dramatization.

Recognize characters, environments, and situations that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.

Differentiate between dramatic play and creative drama.

Covered in benchmark 4.

Learn and perform a simple dance from one culture.

Identify three personal goals with teacher assistance.

With teacher assistance, create a chart of good health habits for their room.

Demonstrate the ability to draw alphabet letters in the air using parts of the body.

View a dance film with teacher assistance, relate it to literature.

Demonstrate uses of the voice, proper instrumental technique, and steady beat.

Sing and play music from a variety of styles and cultures.

Sing and play expressively utilizing extreme opposites of dynamics and interpretation.

Sing melodies with confidence in a large group.

Follow cues of the conductor to begin and for a cut-off.

Play a steady beat.

Replicate short rhythmic and melodic patterns.

Play a steady beat in a group while other students sing a song.

Use a system to read quarter notes and quarter rests.

Use a system to read two or more pitches. (sol, mi)

Recognize contrasting expressions of music.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, an accompaniment for a selection with non-pitched percussion classroom instruments.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, an answer to a melodic question.

Create vocal embellishments for a song or rhyme.

Create a song about self and family.

Explore basic locomotor movements; e.g., walk, run, gallop, slide, and jump moving in a straight pathway.

Introduce and explore non-locomotor/axial movements in personal space by bending, stretching, reaching and twisting.

Explore low, middle, and high levels.

Explore personal space while standing, sitting.

Move at moderate tempo while in personal space, with the teacher and without the teacher.