Visual Arts and Music

Unit 1

• Perform and create artistic movements and patterns
• Read, write, and perform simple patterns of sounds and rhythms
• Identify and represent musical sounds and ideas
• Respond to sounds with body movements
• Use voice to speak, chant, sing

Unit 2

• Improvise music with instruments
• Listen, describe, and respond to a variety of music
• Music representing different cultures
• Read and write patterns with musical notes
• Identify some common musical instruments by sight and sound

Unit 3

• Sing age-appropriate songs with accuracy from memory
• Improvise dramatizations of stories or ideas
• Take part in experiences in script writing, making props and sets, and acting
• Identify and discuss some well-known works of dance, drama, music, and visual arts and some artists, actors, writers, musicians, choreographers, or composers
• Observe patterns in nature and works of art

Unit 4

• Create original works of art in various media and dimensions
• Express observations, ideas, or feelings through music, drama, or visual art
• Learn and use vocabulary of dance, music, drama, and visual arts
• Demonstrate appropriate audience skills for live performances