Language of the Arts-1st Grade

GOAL 25: Know the language of the arts.

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Sensory Elements-Dance

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Organizational Principles-Dance

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Expressive Qualities-Dance

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Sensory Elements-Drama

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Organizational Principles-Drama

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Expressive Qualities-Drama

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Sensory Elements-Music

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Organizational Principles-Music

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Expressive Qualities-Music

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Sensory Elements-Visual Arts

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Organizational Principles-Visual Arts

Understand the sensory elements and expressive qualities of the arts and use them to praise God-Expressive Qualities-Visual Arts

Understand the similarities, distinctions and connections in and among the arts and through our faith, celebrate diversity in and among the arts.

Identify body parts and basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

Know that God made us and helps us keep our body parts moving.

Explore personal and shared space.

Identify quick/slow and strong/light movements.

Identify two parts in a dance or accompaniment (AB form).

Identify starting and ending positions in personal or peer dances.

Suggest meanings that locomotor and nonlocomotor movements can convey (e.g., light, quick skips suggest happiness).

Identify uses of sound, movement and space in drama/theater.

Retell or act out what happened in a story.

Identify characters and setting in a drama.

Identify characters in the Bible.

Dramatize stories from the Bible. 

Identify the emotions of happy, sad, mad, and scared.

Identify loud, soft, high, and low sounds.

Identify fast and slow music.

Identify tone colors (timbres) of voices and environmental sounds.

Identify long and short sounds.

Echo a steady beat.

Distinguish between same and different phrases or sections in a simple sacred and secular song.

Match the mood, emotion or concept expressed in a musical example with the sensory element that creates that expressive quality.

Recognize various types of lines in given art works (e.g., thick/thin, long/short, straight/curved).

Discover shapes in a given art work (e.g., circle, square, triangle).

Construct a color wheel using primary and secondary colors. 

Distinguish between rough and smooth textures.

Review simple patterns (e.g., AB, AA, BB, ABA).

Recognize direction in art work (e.g., up and down, back and forth, across).

Name the mood or emotion shown in artwork (e.g., happy, sad).

Talk about God’s creation all around them.

Name one way each art form is different from the others (e.g., music and drama use voice, dance and visual arts do not).

Describe the theme, idea, feeling, or story within an art work (e.g., mood in “Starry Night”, Peer Gynt Suite).

Talk about the gifts God gave them.