Grade 4 Fine Arts WVCCRS Standards

Demonstrate singing a variety of musical styles.

Discover a variety of expressive qualities (e.g., dynamics, phrasing, articulation, form, and tempo) relating to musical performance.

Analyze and understand appropriate tone production for instruments and voices.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connections to specific purpose and context (e.g., social, cultural, and historical).

Generate musical ideas (e.g., rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within specific related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes.

Create rhythmic and melodic ideas based on varied music forms.

Demonstrate and interpret the influence of personal interest, knowledge, and context and technical skill on music selection.

Relate contextual influence (e.g., social, cultural, and historical) to music performances.

Sing, perform, and relate West Virginia songs to West Virginia history and West Virginia geography.

Compare and contrast personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation and active listening of music for specific purposes, citing evidence from the elements of music.

Apply teacher-provided, collaboratively-developed, and/or established criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble and personal performances.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (e.g., rhythm, pitch, form, and harmony) in music for selected performances.

Demonstrate connections between music and other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Explore life skills relevant to musical careers.

Read and perform music using standard notation.

Demonstrate a variety of tempi and form through movement.

Perform music following the cues of a conductor.

Demonstrate and explain intent through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (e.g., dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation/style).

Identify aurally and visually a variety of instruments, vocal timbres, and music ensembles.

Demonstrate understanding of musical concepts through the use of standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology.

Read and notate from the grand staff.

Performing

Exploring

Creating

Relating

Elements of Art and Principles of Design

Multidisciplinary Connections

Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas

Art History and Diversity

Reflection and Analysis

Media, Techniques and Processes

Compare, contrast, and explain the effectiveness of a variety of two- and three-dimensional art tools, techniques, and processes in multiple media.

Explore, compare and contrast, and analyze how ideas, experiences, and stories can be expressed through multiple arts, disciplines, and other subjects.

Construct two and three-dimensional art using multiple media to communicate ideas experiences, and stories with aesthetic prompt, multiple solutions, and to communicate ideas, experience, and stories with peer critique.

Use materials, tools, and technology in a safe and responsible manner.

Compare and contrast, analyze, and ask and answer questions about the elements of art and principles of design as they apply to the creation of two and three-dimensional art and the communication of multiple ideas.

Explore, compare and contrast, and analyze the presence of a subject, symbol or idea that visually communicate a meaning in art.

Create art using various subject matter or symbols.

Compare and contrast, analyze, and ask and answer questions about how art has existed through time and is affected by its creator, culture, style, and/or time periods.

Create art that reflects the style of various cultures from different time periods as well as from current events.

Compare and contrast, analyze, and ask and answer questions about how personal and others' works of art represent feelings, reflect experiences, create meaning, and/or have a function.