Grade 3 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 elements and principles of art and design, including, value (i.e., tints and shades, analogous colors), line, rhythm, movement, proportion, and balance

Use a variety of art and technology media to create an original work of art

Use observational skills in creating an original work of art

Use visual arts vocabulary to discuss and compare works of art

Compare themes and subject matter in works of art from different time periods

Use the notation of whole, half, quarter, eighth, dotted-half notes, and rests

Perform songs from various cultures within their cultural context

Read the notes of a "C" major scale on a staff

Identify simple musical forms and melodic or rhythmic ostinato (repeated) pattern

Identify the basic instruments of the orchestra by sight, sound, and category (e.g., brass, woodwind, percussion, strings)

Sing rounds and partner songs from memory

Compare elements of music, such as form, pattern, or rhythm, to other art forms

Create short rhythmic and melodic phrases using two to four measure phrases and five different pitches on a staff

Use specific musical terms to respond to elements of a musical performance

Identify developmentally appropriate pieces of music representing various time periods

Create a dramatization based on a story

Use appropriate audience etiquette while listening and watching a theatrical performance

Use the elements of theatre to create a critique of a theatrical performance

Compare similar dramatic themes between works from various cultures

Apply dance elements to create a simple movement sequence

Explain personal interpretations of a variety of dances

Perform dance movements of different styles (e.g. ballet, jazz), cultures, and time periods