(1) The benchmark for arts content standard 3 for a student at the end of grade 4 is the ability to:

(a) use arts materials, techniques, technology, and processes to create general responses;

(b) communicate meaning through the art forms from selected subject matter;

(c) explore potential solutions to a given problem through the arts;

(d) use technical skills in:

(i) dance by performing movements and rhythm patterns;

(ii) music by singing and playing music using dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation;

(iii) theatre by using mind, voice, and body to create characters and tell stories; and

(iv) visual arts by creating works of art with content that is consistent with media possibilities; and

(e) identify and use an appropriate symbol system in:

(i) dance by using dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/or described in words;

(ii) music by using standard symbols to identify meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics;

(iii) theatre by recognizing and using stage direction; and

(iv) visual arts by recognizing and using symbol language appropriate to media used to create works of art.