Kindergarten

Kindergarten Curriculum

 * Standard(s) Aligned System **


 * **Clear Standards **

 **9.1. Production, Performance and Exhibition of Visual Arts** A. Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities. B. Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. C. Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts forms. D. Use knowledge of varied styles within each art form through a performance or exhibition of unique work. E. Demonstrate the ability to define objects, express emotions, illustrate an action or relate an experience through creation of works in the arts. F. Identify works of others through a performance or exhibition (e.g., exhibition of student paintings based on the study of Picasso). G. Recognize the function of rehearsals and practice sessions. H. Handle materials, equipment and tools safely at work and performance spaces. I. Identify arts events that take place in schools and in communities. J. Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for producing, performing and exhibiting works in the arts or the works of others. K. Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities.  **9.2. Historical and Cultural Contexts** A. Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts. G. Relate works in the arts to geographic regions.
 * __**Standards **__

A. Recognize critical processes used in the examination of works in the arts and humanities.   B. Know that works in the arts can be described by using the arts elements, principles and concepts (e.g., use of color, shape and pattern in Mondrian’s, //Broadway Boogie-Woogie // ; use of dynamics, tempo, texture in Ravel’s //Bolero // ). C. Know classification skills with materials and processes used to create works in the arts (e.g., sorting and matching textiles, musical chants, television comedies).
 * 9.3. Critical Response**

**9.4. Aesthetic Response** A. Know how to respond to a philosophical statement about works in the arts and humanities (e.g., “Can artworks that depict or are about ugly or unpleasant things ever be beautiful?”).


 * __**Anchors** __ ||
 * **Fair Assessments**


 * __**Summative** __
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Diagnostic** __ ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Curriculum Framework**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. The skills, tehniques, elements, and principals of the arts can be learned, studied, refined, and practiced. 2. Artists use tools and resources, as well as their own experiences and skill, to create art. 3. People create, experience, and engage with art throughout their lives. 4. The arts provide a medium to understand and exchange ideas 5. Art is created for a variety of purposes; artists create for a variety of reasons. 6. Humans have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures. 7. There are formal and informal processes used to assess the quality of works in the arts. 8. People use both aesthetic and critical processes to assess quality, interpret meaning, and determine value.
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Big Ideas** __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Artists make art to decorate their bodies and homes to make a living, to illustrate stories, to illustrate personal experience, and to convey emotion. 2. Artists use found, recycled, and manufactured materials as well as tools to create art. 3. Artists use specific vocabulary when making or describing art.
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Concepts** __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Students will make art for a variety of purposes. 2. Students will express opinions and explain their preferences. 3. Students will use a variety of materials and tools to make art. 4. Students will use appropriate vocabulary when making art and expressing their ideas about art.
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Competencies** __

1. What is art? 2. Where do we experience art (see it, hear it)? 3. Who can create art? 4. How is art like a language? 5. Why do people create art? 6. How do people use art? 7. Why does art change? 8. What makes good art? 9. Why do artists rehearse and practice? 10. Why is it important for people to be able to act, dance, draw, paint, play, and sing? 11. Why do different people like different works of art?
 * **__Essential Questions__**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Art**- made by people to communicate what they think, feel, and believe. Art is organized in important ways to communicate a message or meaning.
 * **__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Vocabulary __**
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Additional vocabulary is used relating to emergent curriculum. **


 * Artist**- a person who creates art


 * Broken line**- a line that stops and starts


 * Color**- refers to all spectral colors, as well as black and white ( red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, black, brown, white)


 * Collage**- an art form that is made by gluing a variety of materials such as cloth, paper, photographs, and string


 * Curved line**- a line that changes directions slowly and bends


 * Drawing**- a picture that an artist has created using line and/ or color


 * Geometric shape**- structured "math shapes" - i.e. circle, square, triangle, rectangle -found in objects made by humans


 * Line**- a mark drawn, that moves across a surface


 * Painting**- a picture or scene that an artist has created using paint


 * Pattern**- when objects, colors or lines repeat


 * Sculpture**- artwork that stands up and can be measured in three ways, height, width, and depth


 * Shape**- a flat object that can be measured in two ways, length and height


 * Straight line**- a mark drawn across a surface that doesn't move up or down


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free form shape **- the opposite of geometric shapes, these are found in nature and appear irregular and uneven, such as puddles, clouds and flowers


 * Space**- the area in, around, and between objects


 * Texture**- how something feels, e.g. rough, smooth, bumpy, soft, hard

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Concept**: Artists use found, recycled and manufactured materials, as well as tools, to create art.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Exemplars__**


 * Competency**: Students will use a variety of materials and tools to make art.


 * Exemplar**: Students will be introduced to age-appropriate media and learn how to manipulate the media and tools to create art.


 * Assessment**: Students will use various media and tools to create art. Student learning will be assessed through observation and discussion. ||