Fine Arts
Teacher: Mr. Pleasant
3rd-5th grade students have the opportunity to learn how to play musical instruments as part of our magnet program.
Teacher: Ms. Kirschner
The study of dance has multiple benefits to students beginning with the physical; students that take part in dance show improvement in cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, coordination, and strength. Intellectually and artistically, students that study dance show an increase in their artistic awareness, creativity, music and rhythmic expression, imagination and are more innovative in their approaches to problem solving. These students routinely work as part of a team and must collaborate with other students when performing which increases body-space awareness and spatial development.
Teacher: Mr. Hadley
Art is a basic component of a complete education. Art experience fosters aesthetic development; the ability to construct, create, decode, and describe. It provides avenues of communication, paves the way for reading, and motivates written expression. Art is a product, a process, and an essential element of creative thought and experience.
Students will be introduced to:
- Elements: line, form, color, value and texture
- Principles: balance, emphasis, harmony, proportion, rhythm, unity, and variety
Teacher: Mr. Murray
Students build self-confidence and self-awareness while also learning how to think quickly on their feet through improvisation. Group work requires cooperation and collaboration. As students actively explore characters and situations of their own imagining, and in written scripts, they build on their ability to empathize and understand. All of these benefits have an impact on their work in other subject areas. Probably the most evident benefit drama provides, however, is the confidence to perform in front of others and to express ideas confidently.