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.

Music

• 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.
• Understand a time signature.
• Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, eighth note, dotted quarter note.
• Create a rhythmic composition.
• Sing a song about bones and muscles.
• Sing “Star-Spangled Banner.”
• Sing one of the most-performed songs in America.
• Listen to reveille and taps.
• Learn about a famous composer.
• Learn about a famous musician.

• Continue to develop a basic art vocabulary.
• 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 secondary colors.
• Identify and use color contrast.
• Identify and use warm and cool colors.
• Draw a fictional character based on a written description.
• Create a sandwich board advertisement.
• Look at and appreciate various works of art.
• Interpret art.
• Compare art from various cultures.
• Learn about a famous artist and make artwork in his style.
• Analyze artistic works.
• Use various techniques and mediums to create original art.
• Identify and use texture.
• Paint in the style of Pointillism.
• Make a diorama.
• Sew fabric squares together to make a quilt.
• Make a sculpture.
• Draw or paint a replica of artwork from the Metropolitan Art Museum.
• Make pottery.
• Create art using origami.
• Create a mobile.
• Draw and paint a mural.
• Create a “Great Seal” of your family homeschool.