Grade: Kindergarten

01 Mar 2021

Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Legends

August-June

Using our imaginations, discover different fairy tales, folklore, and legends, and artistically create stories of your own.

Standards:

  • RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
  • RL.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
  • HISTORY.K.2 Personal history can be shared through stories and pictures.
  • VA.K.7PE Explore their environments and experiences for artmaking ideas.

Vocabulary:

Character, setting, theme, story, illustration, imagination

01 Mar 2021

I Spy Shapes!

August-June

The Greenacres Arts Center is home to beautiful works of art, instruments, and cleverly designed shapes built into architecture. We will investigate the shapes around us as we create art!

Standards:

  • K.G.4 Describe and compare two- or three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their commonalities, differences, parts, and other attributes.
  • K.PS.1: Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.
  • MU.K.1CE Identify the same and different (e.g., fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low and long/short).

Vocabulary:

Shape, geometric, organic, pattern, design, pitch, sound, large, small, high, low

01 Mar 2021

Seasonal Inspirations (Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring)

August-June

Every season brings a different experience at Greenacres–inside and outside! Use observable seasonal changes to express yourself and your experiences through the Arts.

Standards:

  • K.HISTORY.3. Heritage is reflected through the arts, customs, traditions, family celebrations and language.
  • VA.K.7PE Explore their environments and experiences for artmaking ideas.
  • MU.K.4PE Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others, and demonstrate proper techniques.

Vocabulary:

Winter, spring, summer, autumn, traditions, custom, instruments, inspiration, observe

26 Feb 2021

Weather: Daily and Seasonal Change

August-June

Weather has a big influence on the natural world.  Sunlight warms water, air and soil, which changes how living things behave. In this program, we will look for evidence of the effects of short and long-term weather as we explore the impact on plants and animals at Greenacres.

Standards:

Ohio:

  • SWK Grade K-2: The world is discovered through exploration
  • ESS Grade K: Weather changes are long-term and short-term.
  • LS Grade K: Living things have physical traits and behaviors, which influence their survival.

NGSS

  • K-PS3-1. Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface
  • K-ESS2-1. Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
  • K-ESS3-2. Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.

Fall, Winter and Spring Video Introductions and Vocabulary:

weather, season, fall, winter, summer, spring, temperature

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