Grade 2 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 the element of space and the principles of repetition and variety, with a variety of art media

Use color to convey mood in works of art

Describe different responses to the same work of art

Investigate how art is used in celebrations, festivals, and customs of selected cultures from the past and present

Demonstrate rhythmic notation of whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests

Use melodic notation of simple four-beat patterns using three different pitches on a staff

Sing or play repeating rhythmic or melodic patterns

Describe instrument families and sounds from various cultures

Use physical movements, rhythms, and voice, to express simple feelings, character, and plot

Create simple costumes, scenery, and props

Interpret the ideas and morals of theatrical works

Assess how various styles of theatrical production relate to culture

Apply the element of space and pathways to create simple movement sequences

Demonstrate the element of time, tempo, beat, duration, and rhythm

Use simple partner skills during movement sequences

Create movement sequences that express a mood

Compare dances from a variety of cultures