Creating & Performing- 2nd Grade

GOAL 26: Through creating and performing understand how works of art are produced.

Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts (dance). Use God-given talents of creating and performing to honor God.-Dance

Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts. Use God-given talents of creating and performing to honor God. -Tools-Drama

Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts. Use God-given talents of creating and performing to honor God. -Processes-Drama

Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts. Use God-given talents of creating and performing to honor God. -Tools-Music

Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts. Use God-given talents of creating and performing to honor God. -Processes-Music

Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts. Use God-given talents of creating and performing to honor God. -Tools & Processes-Visual Arts

Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts. Apply God-given talents, as a reflection of our faith, to create and perform in one or more of the arts. -Skills-Dance

Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts. Apply God-given talents, as a reflection of our faith, to create and perform in one or more of the arts. -Skills-Drama

Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts. Apply God-given talents, as a reflection of our faith, to create and perform in one or more of the arts. -Creating-Drama

Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts. Apply God-given talents, as a reflection of our faith, to create and perform in one or more of the arts. -Skills-Music

Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts. Apply God-given talents, as a reflection of our faith, to create and perform in one or more of the arts. -Creating-Music

Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts. Apply God-given talents, as a reflection of our faith, to create and perform in one or more of the arts. -Skills & Creating-Visual Arts

Identify the body as the main tool of dance.

Suggest movements that would be appropriate for response to sacred or secular words, sounds pictures, props, and/or stories.

Know that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. 

Identify the three primary tools (i.e., mind, body, voice) of drama.

Demonstrate group strategies used to plan a drama.

Demonstrate the practicing/ rehearsing techniques used to create a drama.

Interact in role with other characters using safe movement in an improvised and/or rehearsed sacred and secular drama.

Identify different types of voices (e.g., man, woman and child).

Label environmental sounds.

Identify classroom instrument sounds.

Identify instruments visually.

Use appropriate vocal timbre and volume when singing sacred and secular songs.

Interpret basic rhythmic notation symbols (e.g., whole note, half note, quarter note).

Sing or play accurately simple pitch notation using a symbol system (e.g., icons, syllables, numbers, letters).

List the materials and tools used to paint, draw and construct.

Use materials to draw, paint, and construct religious scenes.

Use appropriate tools (e.g., brushes, scissors, clay modeling tools) correctly and respectfully when creating an art work.

Demonstrate the safe and responsible use of tools to protect the bodies God gave us.

Perform and differentiate among basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements and recognize they are using God-given talents.

Imitate and distinguish among stretched, curled, angular, twisted, symmetrical, and asymmetrical body shapes.

Demonstrate use of spatial elements (personal and shared, levels, directions, pathways, relationships, size of movement) in response to verbal cues.

Explore time elements (fast/slow, tempos, beat & rhythms) in response to verbal cues.

Perform singing games and folk dances representative of a variety of cultures.

Improvise dances in response to words, sounds, pictures, props, and/or stories.

Demonstrate ways to use the body and voice to communicate character actions, emotions and sounds in drama.

Follow multi-step directions.

Demonstrate collaborative skills respectfully.

Interact in role with other characters using movement in an improvised and/or rehearsed drama.

Use a puppet to communicate a story, include religious stories.

Sing songs of various cultures and faiths in rhythm maintaining a steady tempo with correct breathing techniques.

Improvise a rhythmic accompaniment for sacred and secular songs of various cultures.

Create short vocal or instrumental melodic and rhythmic phrases within specified guidelines.

Purposefully manipulate 2-D or 3-D materials to create an art work that expresses an idea.

Create 2-D or 3-D art works that show the use of imagination and express personal ideas.

Create artwork using additive processes (e.g., clay, paper, found objects).

Create a work of art reflecting our Catholic values/beliefs.