Erin Badger-Coffey, The Dancing Badger

KINDERGARTEN Literacy Standards:
● Reading Standards for Literature
● Key Ideas and Evidence
○ RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text
● Range of Reading and Level of Complexity
○ RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

FIRST GRADE Literacy Standards:
● Speaking and Listening Standards
● Collaboration and Communication
○ SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and
texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
1. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions.

SECOND GRADE Literacy Standards:
● Speaking and Listening Standards (SL.1)
● Collaboration and Communication
○ SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and
texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
1. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions.

KINDERGARTEN Math Standards:
● Geometry: Identify and describe shapes.
○ NC.K.G.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative
positions of objects using positional terms.

○ NC.K.G.2 Correctly name squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones,
cylinders, and spheres regardless of their orientations or overall size.
○ NC.K.G.3 Identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders,
and spheres as two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

Connection to NC Essential Arts Standard(s):
K.CP.1 Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate
ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
K.CP.1.1 Identify components of the elements of dance movement (body, time, space, energy).
K.CP.1.4 Create dance movements to represent words, ideas, experiences, and feelings.
K.DM.1 Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
K.DM.1.1 Illustrate the difference between whole body movement and isolation of body parts.
K.DM.1.2 Discriminate between moving and stillness.
K.DM.1.3 Recognize basic locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movements.
K.DM.1 Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
K.DM.1.5 Use directions, levels, and pathways in general space.