China Standards Alignments

Education Standards Alignment with Crayola Creativity Week

Supporting Learning through Cross-Curricular, Creative Learning Experiences

Art

Feeling and appreciation

Goal 1 Like the beautiful things in nature and life

  1. Be willing to collect beautiful things or introduce them to others.

  2. Like to imitate the characteristic sounds in nature and living environment, and generate corresponding associations.

Goal 2 Enjoy a variety of art forms and works

  1. Art appreciation often uses expressions, actions, language, and other ways to express their understanding.

  2. Willing to share and exchange their favorite works of art and aesthetic experience with others.

Expression and Creation

Goal 1 Enjoy artistic activities and be bold

  1. Actively participate in art activities, and have their own favorite forms of activities.

  2. Be able to express your feelings and imagination with a variety of tools, materials or different ways of expression.

  3. In art activities, they can cooperate with others, and can also perform independently.

 

Goal 2 Have preliminary artistic expression and creativity

  1. Be able to sing with basically accurate rhythm and tone.

  2. Be able to express your emotions or natural scenes with rhythm or simple dance movements.

  3. Be able to write and perform stories by oneself, and make simple costumes, props or sets for the performance.

  4. Be able to decorate the environment and beautify life with your own art works.

Language

Listen and speak

Goal 1: Listen carefully and be able to understand common language

  1. Be able to pay attention to listening to teachers or others in the group.

  2. If you don't understand or have questions, you can ask questions.

  3. Be able to understand some relatively complex sentences that represent cause and effect, hypothesis, etc. in context.

Goal 2: Be willing to speak and can express clearly

  1. Willing to discuss problems with others and dare to speak in front of everyone.

  2. Speaks Mandarin and can pronounce it correctly and clearly. Children in ethnic minority areas have simple daily conversations in Mandarin.

  3. Be able to tell an orderly, coherent, and clear story.

  4. Common adjectives, synonyms, etc. can be used when speaking, and the language is more vivid.

 

Goal 3 Has civilized language habits

  1. Be able to respond proactively when others speak.

  2. Be able to adjust the tone of your speech according to the person you are talking to and what you need.

  3. Know how to speak in turn in order and do not interrupt others at will.

  4. Be able to use the appropriate language for your situation. For example, when others are sad, they will use appropriate language to express comfort.

Reading and Writing Preparation

Goal 1 ： Enjoy listening to stories and reading books

  1. Read books intently often.

  2. Enjoy talking about books and stories with others.

  3. Interested in word symbols in reading books and life situations, knowing that words represent a certain meaning.

 

Goal 2： Has initial reading comprehension skills

  1. Be able to state the main content of the children's literature you are reading.

  2. Be able to guess the development of the storyline according to some of the plot of the story or the clues of the book screen, or continue to edit or create a story.

  3. Be able to speak your mind about the books you've read and the stories you've heard.

  4. Be able to get a first feel for the beauty of literary language.

 

Goal 3 ： Has a desire and initial skills for written expression

  1. Be willing to express things or stories with pictures and symbols.

  2. Will write their name correctly.

  3. Pose correctly when writing and drawing.