Classroom teachers integrate visual arts with many projects in their classrooms, and students have a weekly art class with an art specialist. Art classes deal with art concepts while linking art to other content areas. Kindergarten students have a 30 minute art class, and students in grade 1 through 6 have a 45 minute class. Students create and assess their own art as well as look at and discuss art from other cultures and periods in history. Student art work is displayed throughout the school.
Students keep a portfolio of drawings done at the beginning and end of each school year.
They add a page of drawings in September and again in June, so that by the end of sixth grade their portfolios contain as many as 12 pages documenting their development from K through grade 6. Each page includes drawings of a person, animal, building and machine. Students receive these portfolios to take home at their grade 6 graduation. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the methods and materials unique to visual arts. Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction and invention by using a variety of media and materials.