Students acquire a living, working vocabulary through games, songs, poems, plays, sign language, proverbs, and much more. The foundation of the entire program is a philosophy that children learn in many different ways. Through careful planning, the faculty blends what students learn in the academic core with what is teamed in Spanish class. Students sing and accompany themselves on xylophones, drums and hand percussion instruments. Often the music we are doing in the music rooms relates to something they are studying in the core classroom.
Creative movement is central part of musical learning.
The students at Ardis Renaissance Academy also receive instruction in piano keyboards in our new Yamaha Music Education keyboard lab. The students in the upper grades also learning to play a wind instruments that dates back to the Renaissance, soprano recorders. Students at Ardis Renaissance Academy learn to read music, perform music, create, music and music helps them learn core subjects better as well. The Physical Education program at Ardis not only includes the basic physical fitness curriculum, but woven within the curriculum are learning concepts that support what is being taught in the core academic classes. For example - Children studying pioneer life, learn to play pioneer games of long ago.