Grade 1 Fine Arts Hawaii Standards

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Dance — Understand and apply elements of dance, appreciate how dance communicates meaning, and recognize its role across cultures and throughout history

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Drama and Theatre — Understand and apply the skills of acting, design, and technical theatre and understand the role of drama in various cultures throughout history

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Music — Understand and apply elements of music and understand how music communicates ideas, feelings, and experiences across cultures

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Visual Arts — Understand and apply art materials, techniques, and processes in the creation of original works of art and understand how the visual arts communicate a variety of ideas, feelings, and experiences

Use various types of art media

Use the elements of line, shape, form, texture, color, and the principles of repetition and variety in artwork using a variety of art mediums

Differentiate between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork

Demonstrate how mixing primary colors can create secondary colors

Use familiar subjects and experiences to create original works of art

Compare artwork from various cultures that have similar themes and subject matter

Use simple patterns of rhythm and pitch using quarter notes, quarter rest, and eighth notes

Use the notations for four-beat rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, quarter rests, and eighth notes

Use a four-beat melodic or rhythmic pattern to demonstrate the simple musical form of "echo"

Recognize, by sound quality, various characteristics of instruments and vocal sounds

Sing a simple song with appropriate vocal range from memory

Identify families of instruments and how each sound is produced

Explain how music can communicate ideas and moods

Compare music used for special occasions from various cultures

Recognize theatrical vocabulary

Adapt and dramatize a familiar story

Evaluate personal feelings about a theatrical work

Critique characterization in a theatrical work

Analyze the dramatic elements of culture that exist in stories, songs, fairy tales, fables, and nursery rhymes

Create a dance that consists of a beginning, middle, and end

Apply the element of space (e.g., place, size, level, direction) to create simple movement sequences

Apply the element of energy – smooth/sharp (attack), heavy/light (weight), tight/loose (flow) – to create simple movement sequences

Repeat a simple movement sequence by imitation

Describe how an idea is communicated through dance

Describe the role of dance from a variety of cultures