Language of the Arts-PreK-Kindergarten

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-Sensory Elements-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-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 similarities, distinctions and connections in and among the arts and through our faith, celebrate diversity in and among the arts.

Identify body parts. 

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

Identify basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

Explore personal and shared space.

Identify quick and slow movements. 

Retell or act out what happened in a story.

Identify characters in a drama

Identify characters in the Bible.

Retell stories from the Bible. 

Identify loud, soft, high, and low sounds.

Identify fast and slow music.

Identify long and short sounds.

Echo a steady beat.

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

Recognize line in a work of art.

Identify shapes (e.g., circle, square, triangle).

Introduce primary (red, yellow, blue) and secondary (orange, green, purple) colors. 

Experience texture in art. 

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

Recognize God’s creation all around them.

Talk about the similarities and difference between two different forms of art (e.g., dance, drama, music, visual arts). 

Talk about the gifts God gave them.