Demonstrate how artwork can be created using computers and electronic media as a tool for creative expression.

Develop a visual vocabulary.

Recognize that art is created to fulfill personal and/or social needs.

Share personal experiences and preferences in response to works of art.

Evaluate personal artwork using art terminology.

Reflect on how art expresses ideas, feelings, and opinions.

Compare symbols, trademarks, icons, emblems, and other visual motifs in various cultures.

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

Support personal aesthetic response to musical works and styles.

Identify and describe distinguishing characteristics of several different styles presented in 2nd grade.

Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures using music performed and presented in 2nd grade.

Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 2nd grade.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in meanings of common vocabulary used in the various 2nd grade arts.

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections within the 2nd grade curriculum.

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.

Identify and describe different characters though vocal expression.

Dramatize real and non-real characters with prompting and side-coaching.

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

Paraphrase dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

Manipulate simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.

Describe the characters and setting in stories.

Convey elements of character, setting, and events after reading a story or script (The Five Ws).

Reflect upon personal preferences of music, sound, movement, dance, and design in the classroom dramatizations.

Make predictions about characters, setting, and events based on story content.

Reflect upon the role of constructive criticism for building classroom dramatizations.

Describe the character's wants and needs.

Give examples of emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

Sing and play expressively with phrasing and appropriate dynamics.

Sing an ostinato.

Respond to the cues of the conductor for dynamic levels and expressive qualities.

Play melodic instruments.

Expand the complexity of patterns.

Play instrumental parts independently.

Use a system to read quarter notes and rests, eighth notes, and half notes.

Use a system to read pitch notation for a pentatonic scale.

Know and use beginning vocabulary for articulation and tempo.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, rhythmic and melodic ostinati accompaniments.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers that are rhythmic and melodic.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, rhythmic variations for a familiar song.

Create a pentatonic instrumental song.

Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to 2nd [...]

Add vocal, instrumental, and physical responses to a selection presented in 2nd grade.

Identify phrases, verse, and refrain when presented aurally.

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

Describe the music performed and presented in 2nd grade by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

Introduce music vocabulary to describe the qualities of music of various styles.

Identify the timbre of instrument families.

Working in pairs, follow a leader. Change so that the leader becomes the follower.

Use locomotor movements and pathways to create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and an end.

Explore movement by responding to occurrences in nature, such as a storm or a flower blooming.