K/1 Grade
Can we see sound?
Can you see what I feel?
This unit will support young students in becoming aware of their feelings as they feel them. It will also help them understand that artists can use these feelings to inspire their artmaking.
“The arts provide a wide range of opportunities for social-emotional experiences as well as developing social-emotional competencies… Arts education is also seen as a vehicle for self-expression, helping students explore aspects of their identity and express emotions that are not encouraged at other times in the school day” (Farrington, C., et all, 2019).
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is an important topic in education today. Schools all over the country are adding it to the curriculum, including the state of Ohio, whose Department of Education has created “Ohio's K-12 Social and Emotional Learning Standards” for optional implementation statewide. These standards “seek to develop the ‘whole child’ by helping students build self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, and relationship and responsible decision-making skills” (DeMaria, 2019).
Through music, this unit seeks to support young students in becoming aware of their emotions and being able to label them.
“Children who learn how to understand emotions in themselves and others are better able to regulate their own responses to strong emotions. Helping children to identify and label emotions is an important first step” (Mincemoyer, 2016).
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K.2 PE Explore a variety of materials and tools to create works of art.
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K.3 PE Communicate an idea using the elements of art.
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K.3 RE Observe and describe works of art.
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K.3 RE Observe and describe works of art.
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K.3 CO Share personal responses to works of art and acknowledge the opinions of others.
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K.1 CO Connect ideas, stories, and personal experiences to works of art.
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K.3 CO Share personal responses to works of art and acknowledge the opinions of others.
