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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 1.04: Discuss and examine familiar objects and literature to inspire imagery.
  • Objective 1.05: Carefully observe and examine the world around them.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional basic art media, techniques and processes which may include: fibers - papermaking and paper weaving.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.03: Produce work that shows attention to detail in one's surroundings.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Recognize that artwork from many cultures can be made of material that the student has experienced (wood, stone, paint, etc.)

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.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional art media, techniques and processes that may include:
    • Cut paper - tape
    • Printmaking - styrofoam, water soluble printing ink
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Identify main purpose for an individual artwork.
  • Objective 5.05: Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.
  • Objective 5.07: Discuss common themes such as families, community life, and beauty.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.01: Use immediate environment, including family, home and surroundings, as source of ideas.
  • Objective 1.07: Explore a variety of media
  • Objective 1.11: Use all the senses to gain information and awareness about their environment.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with a limited number of basic art media, techniques and processes which may include:
    • Drawing - crayons, oil pastels, non-toxic markers, brushes, computers, pencils, sidewalk chalk
    • Cut paper - glue, scissors, folding, bending 3-D - clay, paper, found objects, including wood scraps
    • Printmaking - stamps, gadgets, found objects, vegetables, monoprint
    • Painting - tempera, watercolors, large brushes, sponges, finger paint
    • Ceramics - pinch, coil, found stamps.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Create art depicting self, family, friends, pets, home, school and community.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.05: Recognize that human beings create art to tell a story about their ideas and lives without words.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Relate important experiences in life to one's own art.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: The learner will recognize and understand the concept of change in various settings.
  • Objective 3.01: Describe personal and family changes, past, and present.
  • Objective 3.02: Describe past and present changes within the local community.
  • Objective 3.03: Compare and contrast past and present changes within the local community and communities around the world.
• Goal 5: The learner will express geographic concepts in real life situations.
  • Objective 5.01: Locate and describe familiar places in the home, classroom, and school.
  • Objective 5.03: Use geographic terminology and tools to create representations of the earth's physical and human features through simple maps, models, and pictures.
  • Objective 5.05: Demonstrate responsibility for the care and management of the environment within the school and community.
• Goal 6: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home, school, and the community.
  • Objective 6.01: Examine wants and needs and identify choices people make to satisfy wants and needs with limited resources.
  • Objective 6.02: Describe how people of different cultures work to earn income in order to satisfy wants and needs.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will investigate how individuals, families, and groups are similar and different.
  • Objective 1.01: Describe how individuals are unique and valued.
  • Objective 1.03: Examine diverse family structures around the world.
  • Objective 1.04: Recognize that families and groups have similarities and differences.
  • Objective 1.05: Compare and contrast customs of families in communities around the world.
• Goal 3: The learner will recognize and understand the concept of change in various settings.
  • Objective 3.02: Evaluate how the lives of individuals and families of the past are different from what they are today.
  • Objective 3.03: Observe and summarize changes within communities.
  • Objective 3.04: Recognize changes in the classroom and school environments.
• Goal 4: The learner will explain celebrated holidays and special days in communities.
  • Objective 4.01: Explore how families express their cultures through celebrations, rituals, and traditions.
• Goal 5: The learner will express basic geographic concepts in real life situations.
  • Objective 5.02: Create and interpret simple maps, models, and drawings of the home, school, and other environments.
  • Objective 5.03: Describe the functions of places in the home, school, and other environments.
• Goal 6: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home, school, and the community.
  • Objective 6.01: Distinguish between wants and needs.
  • Objective 6.03: Identify examples of how families and communities work together to meet their basic needs and wants.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Recognize and relate similar vocabulary use and concepts across experiences with texts.
  • Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.
  • Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
    • publishing non-print texts.
    • discussing interpretations.
    • recording personal responses.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Select and use new vocabulary and language structures in both speech and writing contexts (e.g., oral retelling using exclamatory phrases to accent an idea or event).
  • Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
    • clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
    • using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
    • engaging in more extended oral discussions.
    • producing written products.
    • completing graphic organizers.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.04: Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
  • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
  • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Begin to use formal language and/or literary language in place of oral language patterns, as appropriate.
  • Objective 4.02: Use expanded vocabulary to generate synonyms for commonly overused words to increase clarity of written and oral communication.
  • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Objective 4.09: Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Connect information and events in text to experience.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
  • Objective 3.03: Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.
  • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
    • listening to and re-visiting stories
    • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
    • discovering relationships.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.
  • 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 4.04: Maintain conversation and discussions:
    • attending to oral presentations
    • taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.