Singing/Instruments
The music program through the elementary years combines music literacy, appreciation, participation, and performance. As early as Kindergarten, children begin to learn the value of music in their lives. The music program expands children’s awareness of many different styles of music, encourages their appreciation of cultural similarities and differences, and teaches the basics of rhythm, melody, harmony, tempo, composition, note-reading, and listening skills.

Children participate in a variety of musical experiences, beginning with singing and simple movements and progressing to chants, rounds, descants, recorders, guitars, and autoharps. Performances of song and dance several times during the year give opportunities for children to share what they have learned with appreciative audiences.

Chorus is available for older children, and instrumental music lessons are available after school. Our Middle School Band involves a large number of our older students.

Dance
Dance allows students to train and use their bodies for artistic expressiveness and for the fun of free and flowing movement. Dance lessons are available after school one or two days a week, depending on the students’ ages and interests.

Performing Arts
All students have the opportunity to be part of a performance with their classmates. Through practical theater games and exercises, including mime, improvisations, movement/dance, memorization, characterization, storytelling, vocal and physical conditioning, students improve their dramatic talents. Students thus ready themselves for the challenges of cooperation and individual effort that makes drama such an effective teaching tool.