The kindergarten comes once a week for forty-five minutes. The art curriculum includes drawing, crayon, color pencil, water color, tempera, pastel, craypas, print making, weaving, clay, and other crafts. Art projects occasionally relate to classroom curriculum. We seek to develop drawing skills, imaginative and divergent thinking, as well as an appreciation for the art of the world s cultures. We have an art fair in the winter as part of Catholic Schools Week.
Every child has a piece of art work exhibited.
We participate in the Southwest Regional Wisconsin Art Education Association exhibit, and we are part of the River Arts center Sauk Prairie Schools exhibit in March. On the basis of observations and experiments with newborns, neuroscientists now know that infants are born with neural mechanisms devoted exclusively to music. Studies show that early and ongoing musical training helps organize and develop children s brains. The pre-school age children have one class a week for about fifteen minutes, either with Mr. Dobson or Mrs. Hartwig. Health Education occurs one morning a week, in thirty minute sessions, with grades 1-5.