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  • learning objectives for preschoolers
  • art

visual art

  • Expriments with colors, lines, shapes, textures, and designs
  • Selects specific colors, textures, and materials to represent emotions and experiences
  • Begins to describe elements of art: both their own and that of others
  • music

musical expression

  • Demonstrates an awareness of pitch, tempo, and volume
  • Plays traditional and nontraditional instruments to accompany music or mimic sound
  • Sings and chants to fingerplays/songs that use intonation to set the mood
  • dance + movement

dancing

  • Participates in movement games and begins to express creativity in movements
  • Responds to music through movement
  • dramatic play

drama

  • Uses a variety of props to communicate themes about real life or imaginative experiences
  • Begins to use language and visual expression to respond to theatrical performances
  • Begins to communicate thoughts and feelings through theatrical performance