Kindergarten Fine Arts CA Core Standards

Use personal experiences and interests in making media artworks.

Share memorable experiences of media artworks.

With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life, such as daily activities.

With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools, environments, and rules.

Discover and share ideas for media artworks using play and/or experimentation.

Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions.

Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.

With guidance, combine arts forms and media content, such as dance and video, to form media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate basic skills, such as handling tools, making choices, and cooperating, in creating media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate creative skills, such as performing, within media arts productions.

With guidance, discuss the audience and share roles in presenting media artworks.

Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.

Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.

Share appealing qualities and possible changes in media artworks.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Creating

With guidance, use ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Responding

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Connecting

Producing

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Responding

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Creating

Performing

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Connect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Connect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/ video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of improvisations, compositions and three or more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Perform final versions of improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Explain the criteria used when selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual or small group performances that include melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Describe in interpretations the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Develop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical).

Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context (social, cultural, and historical).

Compare passages in musical selections and explain how the elements of music and context (social, cultural, or historical) inform the response.

Explain and support possible interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context (personal, social, and cultural), (when applicable) the setting of the text, and outside sources.

Develop and apply teacher provided and established criteria based on personal preference, analysis, and context (personal, social, and cultural) to evaluate individual and small group musical selections.

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.

With guidance, share how personal interests connect to creating, performing, and responding to music.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Musicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

With guidance, share connections between music and culture.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.

With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour).

With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

With guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas.

With guidance, organize personal musical ideas using iconic notation and/or recording technology.

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

With guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining personal musical ideas.

Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.

With guidance, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas to peers.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

With guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections.

Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts such as high/low, loud/soft, and same/different in a variety of music selected for performance.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo) that support the creators’ expressive intent.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

With guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.

With guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.

With guidance, perform music with expression.

With guidance, demonstrate performance decorum appropriate for the audience.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

With guidance, list personal interests and experiences and demonstrate why they prefer some music selections over others.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used in music.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

With guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

Creating

Connecting

Performing

Responding

With prompting and supports, identify similarities between characters and oneself in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, identify skills and knowledge from other areas in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, use listening skills to participate in and observe a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, invent and inhabit an imaginary elsewhere in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

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With prompting and supports, use nonrepresentational materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, interact with peers and contribute to dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, express original ideas in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, ask and answer questions during dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

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With prompting and supports, identify characters and setting in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

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With prompting and supports, understand that voice and sound are fundamental to dramatic play and guided drama experiences.

With prompting and supports, explore and experiment with various technical theatre elements in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided drama experience and share with others.

With prompting and supports, express an emotional response to characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, identify preferences in dramatic play, a guided drama experience, or ageappropriate theatre performance.

With prompting and supports, name and describe settings in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and supports, discuss and make decisions with others in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

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Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Performing

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Responding

Creating

Connecting

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.

Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and personal Experiences to Make Art

Identify a purpose of an artwork.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to artmaking.

Identify safe and nontoxic art materials, tools, and equipment.

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Explain the process of making art while creating.

Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.

Identify uses of art within one’s personal environment.

Describe what an image represents.

Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.

Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.

Creating

Responding

Presenting

Connecting