Standards
Music
Grades K-4
Content Standard 1 Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
Achievement Standard: Students sing expressively, with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
Content Standard 3 Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
Achievement Standard: Students improvise short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including traditional sounds (e.g., voices, instruments), nontraditional sounds available in the classroom (e.g., paper tearing, pencil tapping), body sounds (e.g., hands clapping, fingers snapping), and sounds produced by electronic means (e.g., personal computers and basic MIDI devices, including keyboards, sequencers, synthesizers, and drum machines)
National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)
Language Arts
Writing
Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
Grades K-2
8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)
8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)
Grades 3-5
6. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, point of view, organization, form) to write for a variety of purposes (e.g., to inform, entertain, explain, describe, record ideas)
Viewing
Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
Grades K-2
1. Understands the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television, newspaper photographs, visual narratives)
Grades 3-5
1. Understands different messages conveyed through visual media (e.g., main ideas and supporting details; facts and opinions; main characters, setting, and sequence of events in visual narratives)
