The students will learn the purpose, definition, processes, areas, and impact of technology on our lives and the environment. Responsibility and cooperative learning are also emphasized. Students are required to wear appropriate clothes, tennis shoes and white socks. They work through line, shape, color, texture, value, space and form by completing artworks of still life, animal drawings, bichromatic painting, formal and informal balance design and a 3-d art medium of clay or paper mache'. Students study artists of the cave painters, Audubon and Grant Wood.
Students learn and participate in art critiques.
Students learn the types of music, to read and write music, the piano keyboard and orchestra instruments. Choir - A beginning experience in performing choral group. Good choral procedures, tone production and two-part music reading are stressed. Maximum academic achievement requires attendance at performances. Orchestra - Learning to play music as a group will be stressed, along with proper posture, position and tone for string instruments.