Language of the Arts-3rd 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-Organizational Principles-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 and describe basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements in personal and peer performances.

Know that the body has many parts and all work together for the Glory of God.

Distinguish among spatial factors (direction, level, size, shape).

Describe quick/slow, strong/light movements. 

Create and demonstrate dances showing an understanding of AB form and logical sequencing of movement (beginning, middle, and ending).

Structure movements into dance phrases and sections.

Identify specific actions, gestures, and changes in movements that communicate feeling and ideas. 

Explain the difference between performance and audience space.

Explain how movement and sound are used in drama/theater to communicate ideas and characters.

Suggest alternative dialogue and/or actions to complete or change a story.

Identify the plot, character, setting, problem/resolution, and message of a drama or religious story.

Dramatize stories from the Bible. 

Identify emotions communicated through body language.

Distinguish between loud/soft and high/low sounds.

Distinguish between fast/slow music.

Distinguish between same and different tone colors (timbres) of voices, classroom instruments and environmental sounds.

Distinguish between long and short sounds.

Echo a rhythm pattern.

Replicate the beat in a musical composition.

Identify simple music forms (e.g., rondo, ostinato) when presented aurally.

Identify different sensory elements that create a mood, emotion or concept in a simple sacred and secular musical selection.

Describe line direction (e.g., horizontal, vertical, diagonal).

Give examples of organic (freeform, natural) and person-made shapes in the visual environment.

Select examples of neutral colors found in nature (e.g., clouds, tree bark, rocks).

Recognize the difference between warm and cool colors.

Focus on ideas of color and texture when reading about creation.

Match given textures to surface and objects.

Distinguish among foreground, middle ground and background.

Identify the horizon line in a given art works.

Describe symmetrical and asymmetrical balance.

Recognize and compare the mood or emotion in two or more art works (e.g., portrait, landscape, still life).

Compare the mood or emotion in two or more religious works of art. 

Compare sensory elements, organizational principles and expressive qualities shared among several art forms that express a similar idea (e.g., beginning, middle, and end in music, dance, and drama).

Use an art form to retell a story from the Bible, e.g., the Nativity Story, the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, Noah’s Ark, etc.

Compare the use of sound, movement, action or visual images to express similar ideas (e.g., subject matter such as night, ocean; emotions/moods such as sad, scary).

Talk about the similarities and differences between two different forms of Christian art.