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Fine Arts activities are designed to encourage the creative abilities of the child and to promote the development of fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.

  • Continue to develop a basic music vocabulary.
  • Demonstrate dynamics and tempo.
  • Listen to and sing various types of music: patriotic, folk, seasonal, spirituals.
  • Continue to improve coordination and express creativity through motions that keep time with music.
  • Develop an ability to understand a song’s message.
  • Repeat rhythmic patterns using clapping or instruments.
  • Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, eighth note/rest.
  • Understand the meaning of a time signature in music.
  • Clap a rhythm pattern using a given time signature.
  • Learn the value of notes and rests.
  • Divide musical beats into measures.
  • Use musical notes to write the rhythm of a song.
  • Write a nursery rhyme and set it to a tune.
  • Sing a song about bones and muscles.
  • Create a rhythmic composition.
  • Continue to develop a basic art vocabulary.
  • Follow instructions, and complete a drawing.
  • Draw objects from different perspectives.
  • Understand the concept of symmetry and create symmetrical designs.
  • Continue to develop small motor skills through cutting, gluing, painting, and folding.
  • Use the color wheel to identify and use primary, secondary, and complementary colors.
  • Identify and use color contrast.
  • Identify and use warm and cool colors.
  • Draw a fictional character based on a written description.
  • Identify and use texture.
  • Paint in the style of Pointillism.
  • Look at and appreciate various works of art.
  • Interpret art.
  • Compare art from various cultures.
  • Use various techniques and mediums to create original art.
    • mosaic
    • origami
    • suminagashi
    • tangle drawing
    • op art
    • abstract drawing
    • ink and wash
  • Make a diorama.
  • Learn about a famous artist and create art in his style.
  • Make pottery.
  • Make a three-dimensional model.
  • Demonstrate the drawing technique of foreshortening.
  • Make a snow globe.
  • Create a mobile.