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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.01: Understand the purpose of the activity.
  • Objective 1.02: Uses logical sequence to complete an activity.
  • Objective 1.03: Develop fluency in use of symbols for visual expression.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.02: Plan and organize for creating art.
  • Objective 1.03: Develop strategies for imagining and implementing images.
  • Objective 1.06: Use experimentation to find solutions.
  • Objective 1.08: Recognize that images from reality and from fantasy may be used to create original art.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.03: Understand and follow step-by-step presentation of art activities.
  • Objective 1.06: Select color according to emotional appeal
  • Objective 1.08: Create work that does not conform to adult standards of realism.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

Grade 2

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Kindergarten

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
  • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.
  • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw and name parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons.
  • Objective 3.03: Compare and contrast geometric figures.
  • Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving spatial visualization.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will perform simple transformations.
  • Objective 3.01: Combine simple figures to create a given shape.

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
  • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw, and name triangles, rectangles, and circles; identify, build, and name spheres and cubes.
  • Objective 3.02: Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences).
  • Objective 3.03: Model and use directional and positional vocabulary.
  • Objective 3.04: Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.