🎨 Art & Music
Drawing and making, music, and stories on stage and screen (acting, magic shows, cartoons), ordered by the National Core Arts Standards' create, perform, respond and connect.
✏️ Drawing & Making
Visual arts: exploring materials, drawing step by step, colour, then perspective, composition and art history.
- Scribble, colour and paintPre-K
- Lines and shapesPre-K
- Draw it step by stepK to 2nd
- Mixing coloursK to 2nd
- Draw something newK to 2nd
- Near and far in pictures3rd to 5th
- The colour wheel3rd to 5th
- Building blocks of art3rd to 5th
- Stories about artists3rd to 5th
- Draw a road that goes forever6th to 8th
- Where things go in a picture6th to 8th
- Painting light6th to 8th
- Draw a box from its cornerHigh school
- Why old paintings look realHigh school
- Seeing from many sides at onceHigh school
- Make prints by handHigh school
- Talk about art like a criticHigh school
🎵 Music
Listening, singing and beat first (Kodály and Orff order), then reading notes, instruments, harmony and form.
- Loud and quiet, high and lowPre-K
- Sing alongPre-K
- Dance, then freezePre-K
- Feel the beatK to 2nd
- Same or different?K to 2nd
- Make an instrumentK to 2nd
- Read music notes3rd to 5th
- Instrument families3rd to 5th
- Long notes and short notes3rd to 5th
- Follow a music map3rd to 5th
- Happy songs and sad songs6th to 8th
- Notes played together6th to 8th
- How sound travels6th to 8th
- Composers through time6th to 8th
- Keys and the circle of fifthsHigh school
- March time and sway timeHigh school
- The distance between notesHigh school
- How long pieces are builtHigh school
- Why a flute sounds like a fluteHigh school
🎭 Stories on Stage & Screen
Theatre, performing and media arts: pretend play, acting out, putting on a show, making cartoons, reading plays.
- Pretend and copy posesPre-K
- Watch a show, then talkPre-K
- Act it outK to 2nd
- Talk with a story characterK to 2nd
- Make a cartoonK to 2nd
- Put on a show3rd to 5th
- Turn a story into a cartoon3rd to 5th
- Rehearse and perform6th to 8th
- Make a cartoon series6th to 8th
- Read a playHigh school
- How films are put togetherHigh school