Dance
Grade K-4 Dance Standard 1
Content Standard
Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance
Achievement Standard
- Students accurately demonstrate nonlocomotor/axial movements (such as bend, twist, stretch, swing)
- Students accurately demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements (such as walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling forward, backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning
- Students create shapes at low, middle, and high levels
- Students demonstrate the ability to define and maintain personal space
- Students demonstrate movements in straight and curved pathways
- Students demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo
- Students demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills
- Students attentively observe and accurately describe the action (such as skip, gallop) and movement elements (such as levels, directions) in a brief movement study
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