Link to Fine Arts Learning Outcomes
MS Art 6th Grade
In sixth grade students will develop their creativity as to express ideas and solve problems. They will see Art as a universal human expression and how this changes as technology progresses. They will experiment with a variety of media and should be able to recognize the elements of Art.
Middle School Art I
This course is an introduction to upper level art and will focus mainly in experiencing the "process of making art" and the use of art elements. Also an introduction to understanding different art styles will be given and how the environment and the culture influenced these movements.
Middle School Art II
This course will build up on skills learned in MS Art I, will also focus on learning the use different media and new ways of expression, as well as an introduction to different art styles.
Art Media
The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the understanding and enjoyment of sculpture, to discover techniques and possibilities and to help them understand the diverse expressions of different cultures.
Art Foundations
The purpose of this course is to give the students a good academic base in Art and Art History as to further on in the IB program, building proper skills for research and making correlations with other areas.
IB Art
The goal of this course is to help students attain high levels of proficiency in artistic skills and art analysis, to find new ways of expression and to broaden their horizons in socio-cultural awareness and bring forth their artistic and human potential.
Afterschool Activities - Mural
Pre-Nursery to Kindergarten
Music classes in Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten are designed to expose our youngest students to music in fun and age-appropriate ways. Selected class activites build aural, kinesthetic and social awareness, laying the foundation for future experiences in steady beat, louder/softer, higher/softer and faster/slower.
Grades 1 to 3
Early Elementary Music classes are a hands-on experience. In these classes, students learn about music from around the world through a dynamic combination of reading, listening, singing, and playing instruments. Students experiment liberally with pitches and rhythms, and begin to learn basic music vocabulary to describe the sounds they hear and the sounds they want to make.
Grades 4 and 5
Students in the Upper Elementary Music classes move from musical exploration into musical skill building. To the Early Elementary arsenal of voice, xylophones and unpitched percussion, the 4th and 5th graders add recorders, allowing these young artists greater expressive abillity and access to a broader range of repertoire. Upper Elementary students also learn to arrange musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, timbre, and form with purpose and creativity.
Students in the 6th grade make the big leap from instruments designed for children to instruments designed for adults. This class is designed to reinforce the fundamentals of music reading while building new concepts of tone quality, posture, responsibility and care for the instruments. Beginning Band performance opportunities are designed to build confidence and motivation in a secure environment.
7th-8th Grade Intermediate Band
Intermediate Band Members build on the concepts of posture, airstream, and tone quality developed in the Beginning Band, while adding expressive techniques such as articulation and dynamics. Intermediate Band emphasizes high-quality performance of exciting music from a variety of times and places, and includes a balance of Classical and pop music repertoire.
The Band and the Chorus each split into various ensembles whereby the student explores large ensemble, small ensemble and solo repertoire. Students are expected to maintain a developmental workbook that reflects their artisitic development over their years of study. Learning about music from other cultures, hearing and defining the Melody, Harmony, Form,Texture, Rhythm, Timbre and Genre of music will be introduced.
This class will follow the IB music curriculum and is the highest level of music offered. Students will realize their vocal or instrumental talents, practice, perform, create and analyze music at an IB level. Students will perform solos and in ensembles. IB Music course culminates in the Musical Investigation Media Paper.
Afterschool Activities - Wind Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Elementary Choir
6th Grade Drama
This class will focus on the foundations of dramatic performance. Through the use of exercises in pantomime, improvisation, voice and diction, oral interpretation, acting scenes and a radio play production students will understand the basics of acting. The class will also include lessons in character analysis and audition technique.
7th and 8th Grade Drama
This class will focus on the foundations of dramatic performance. Through the use of exercises in pantomime, improvisation, voice and diction, oral interpretation, acting scenes and short play production students will understand the basics of acting. The class will also include lessons in play writing, basic character analysis and audition technique.
9th and 10th Grade Drama
This class will include and add to the foundations of dramatic performance learned in 7th and 8th grade through additional focus on acting theory and technique, character and play analysis, an introduction to basic approaches to Shakespeare, theatrical genres and stage combat. 7th and 8th grade drama is approached through the use of exercises in pantomime, improvisation, voice and diction, oral interpretation, acting scenes and a short play production.
IB Drama
This class will focus on the prescribed activities for IB Drama such as play production, period theater, research commission paper and oral play analysis. We will also focus on building knowledge of theater history, theater conventions as well as the acting styles of Stanislavsky, Brecht, Uta Hagen and Peter Strauss.
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