CONTENT STANDARDS
Preschool programs provide children with opportunities to:

EXAMPLE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Some things a child does to demonstrate competency:

Hawai`i DOE Content and Performance Standards

Creative Development

General Learner Outcome

Recognize and produce quality performance and quality products.

Visual Art

Standard 1: Create and express themselves through a variety of art experiences.

• Explore and experiment with a variety of expressive media (paint, chalk, crayon, pencils, clay, collage, wood etc.)

• Begin to select different art materials to represent thoughts and ideas. \

• Use art materials to explore and express moods and feelings (Paint a picture of a beloved pet or family member).

• Use art materials to explore and extend topics being studied in the classroom (draw something that was seen on a field trip).
   

Fine Arts: Visual Arts

Understand and apply art materials, techniques, and processes in creating original artworks based on ideas, experiences, stories, and opinions.

Standard 2: Begin to learn about art elements and techniques.

• Use art elements (line, shape, form, color, value, and texture design and pattern)

• Talk about art work (I made lots of circles in my painting. It’s all black because it’s nighttime.)
   

Music

Standard 1: Create and express themselves through a variety of art experiences.

• Explore and experiment with a variety of expressive media (paint, chalk, crayon, pencils, clay, collage, wood etc.)

• Begin to select different art materials to represent thoughts and ideas.

• Use art materials to explore and express moods and feelings (Paint a picture of a beloved pet or family member).

• Use art materials to explore and extend topics being studied in the classroom (draw something that was seen on a field trip).
   

Fine Arts: Music

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

Standard 2: Begin to learn about music elements and techniques.

• Shows awareness of musical elements such as tempo, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics (for example, sings softly, plays rhythm sticks quickly, claps hands to beat.)

• Explores and plays a variety of rhythm instruments including those used in different cultures.
   

Creative Movement and Drama

Standard 1: Create and express themselves through a variety of creative movement and drama experiences.

• Participate in teacher guided creative movement and drama activities (acting out a story).

• Use props (scarves, kites) to create individual movement and dances.

• Express feelings spontaneously through dance.

• Express ideas through movement and drama.
   

Fine Arts: Drama Theatre

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

Dance

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

Standard 2: Begin to learn about movement elements and techniques.

•  Responds to music through rhythmic body movements

• Participates in guided movement activities such as moving at different levels, with different amounts of force (stomping, tiptoe), or at different speeds.
   

Aesthetic Appreciation

Standard 1: Develop appreciation for natural and cultural beauty and for visual and performing arts.

• Notice beauty in cultural artifacts and communications and in the natural environment.

• Look at and respond to works of visual art.

• Listen and respond to different kinds of music.

• Show an aesthetic response to music through movement/dance.

• Show a developing appreciation for visual and performing arts (e.g. asks to hear a favorite recording replayed, comments on a beautiful work of art)