K-2 specialize in singing, playing instruments, creative movement, and simple composition.
Third graders add keyboard lab and begining recorder playing.
Upper elementary music students continue their instructions in keyboard lab, recorder, instrument playing, singing, creative movement, as well as music history, composition, and making rainsticks and pan pipe instruments. Interested children are admitted by lottery in first grade, therefore allowing them to learn their instrument for a full five years before entering their middle school orchestra programs. The benefits from using the Suzuki method include starting at a young age, learning to play from memory by ear, and including a parent in the learning process. In addition to the normally scheduled classes, we offer early morning art enrichment classes in pottery, computer graphics, and sculpture. The visual arts are integrated into the academic programs by involving the students in especially designed tactile, textural, kinetic projects that reinforce class room learning for the students who learn best with physical involvement.