Cessair Roberto Jacqueline Sierra Students use eight indoor easels, and parent volunteers have plans for several more outdoors. Big Sur children are drawn to the art experience, as are their parents. Music All Captain Cooper students have a regular weekly music program. They have a minimum of two chances to perform before a community audience. Additionally, first graders learn other songs associated with themes in their literature program or other class studies.
All first graders learn to play the recorder.
They have a repertoire of twenty to twenty-five recognizable songs by year's end. Go Tell Aunt Rhody, and Boil Them Cabbage Down. The children spend twenty to thirty minutes per week learning the recorder. Older students report that recorder-playing helped them when they began playing more difficult instruments. Below are some of our recorder players, past and present.