Create and connect dance phrases using ideas about community as stimuli (e.g., our school, community events, farm life, city life, cultural heritage).

Create and connect dance phrases using the elements of dance including:

• actions (identify variety)
• body (bases)
• dynamics (move with varying speeds, duration, forces)
• relationships (using own words, classify variety of relationships with partner or object such as above, below, beside)
• space (straight or curved pathways or combinations).

Adopt roles and collaborate with others in role within dramatic contexts, using community as inspiration (e.g., contexts inspired by local stories and songs, photographs of local people and places, or events from real or fictional communities).

Contribute ideas when engaged in a variety of drama strategies (e.g., role, parallel play, journeys, meetings) and during periods of reflection.

Create sound compositions using communities as inspiration.

Create and perform music that demonstrates understanding of:

• form (repetition and contrast)
• beat (strong and weak beats/accents) and meter (2/4 and 4/4)
• rhythm (create ostinati)
• tempo (fast/slow paces)
• dynamics (loud/soft)
• pitch (high/low sounds) and pitch direction (moving up/down/staying the same)
• texture (layers of sounds)
• tone colour (variety).

Create visual art works that draw on observations and express ideas about own communities.

Create art works using a variety of visual art concepts (e.g., secondary colours), forms (e.g., collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, mobile, traditional art), and media (e.g., paper, found objects, paint, crayons).

Examine arts expressions to determine how ideas for arts expressions may come from artists' own communities.

Use inquiry and technology to investigate a variety of arts expressions.

Identify key features of arts and cultural traditions in own community.

Describe key features of traditional arts expressions of Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis artists.