Standard: Fine Arts

04 Feb 2025

Arts in the Natural World: Seasonal Inspirations

August-June

Every season brings a different experience at Greenacres – inside and outside! Use observable seasonal changes in fall, winter, and spring to express yourself and your experiences through the arts. This program’s content changes in fall, winter, and spring, so you can visit one, two, or three times! Programs in the Arts in the Natural World series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.1.2CR Explore structured improvisations and movement phrases within a central theme.
  • MUS.1.3CO Connect concepts shared between music, other art forms, and other subject areas.
  • TH.1.2RE React to character actions and choices, both personal and peer, following a guided drama experience.
  • VA.1.1RE Describe the meaning of symbols and images in works of art.

Science Standards:

  • K.PS.1 Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.
  • NGSS: K-ESS2-1 Earth’s Systems: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.K.3 Heritage is reflected through the arts, customs, traditions, family celebrations and language.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.E4.3.a Identify examples of transitions and how they are a necessary and appropriate part of school and life.

Vocabulary:

seasons, observations, changes, inspiration, traditions

04 Feb 2025

The Artist in You

August-June

Join us at the Arts Center to bring your students’ creativity to life! Through the visual and performing arts, students can uncover their strengths in creating and collaborating alongside peers. This program seeks to empower young students to acknowledge themselves as creative.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.1.2CR Explore structured improvisations and movement phrases within a central theme.
  • MUS.1.1CO Explore how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.
  • TH.1.2PE Create and tell stories based on personal experience (orally, written, by drawing a picture or pictures).
  • VA.1.2PE Engage with materials and tools to develop artmaking skills.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.1.9 Collaboration requires group members to respect the rights and opinions of others.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A2.2.a Explore opportunities to develop skills and talents.

Vocabulary:

artist, create, perform, improvisation, collaboration

04 Feb 2025

Sing High, Sing Low: Musical Opposites

August-June

Life is full of opposites, like happy or sad, warm or cold, and big or small. Join us for an adventure as we explore opposites through music! Go fast and slow as we follow tempo, get loud and quiet as we explore dynamics, feel long and short sounds as we make rhythms, and hear highs and lows as we experience pitch.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MUS.K.3RE Recognize same and different (fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low, long/short).
  • MUS.K.1CR Experience a wide variety of vocal and instrumental sounds.
  • MUS.K.1PE Track steady beat and rhythm (using graphic, iconic, or traditional notation).

Ohio English Language Arts:

  • ELA.K.5.b Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their antonyms (opposites).
  • ELA.K.5.d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A2.2.a Explore opportunities to develop skills and talents.

Vocabulary:

opposites, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, steady beat   

04 Feb 2025

Exploring the Colors of the Rainbow

August-June

Explore the color wheel’s primary and secondary colors with the Greenacres Arts Educators! We will discover how colors can inspire us, and how colors can connect to and reflect our emotions.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.K.3PE Communicate an idea using the elements of art.
  • DN.K.1RE Describe how movements can express feelings.
  • MUS.K.1CO Experience how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.
  • TH.K.1PE Imitate movements, voices and feelings of people, animals and objects through dramatic play.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.PS.1 Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 1.a Identify basic personal emotions.
  • SEL.C1. 1.a Identify facial and body cues representing feelings in others.

Vocabulary:

color, primary, secondary, emotions