Art
The art program
at French Hill is a process-oriented curriculum which reinforces skills as
well as cooperative learning. Students learn how the world can be viewed and
recreated in the visual arts through examining artwork, discussing the masters
and participating in the creation artwork. Some areas covered include various
two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums (painting, drawing, ceramic
clay, ink, etc.), manipulation of various mediums, identifying types of art,
identifying elements of art and exploring artist intention. Students attend
art class once per week.
Music
French Hill’s
music program emphasizes active participation (singing, movement and playing
instruments) through which they are introduced to the basic elements of music:
melody, harmony, form, rhythm, and timbre. Students go to music class one time
per week.
Concerts are
integral to the music program. Grade Two performs twice per year while Grade
One and Kindergarten each perform one concert per year.
Physical
Education
The French Hill
physical education program uses the psychomotor, cognitive and affective
channels to teach skills. The goal is to achieve optimum personal development
through maximum participation. A variety of skills are presented to help
students successfully participate in appropriate activities.
Children should
wear sneakers on physical education days.
French Hill
kindergarten students attend physical education class once per week while
students in grade one and two have two sessions.
Computer Lab
French Hill
students visit the computer lab once a week. They work at individual stations
with software which is appealing, appropriate and related to various academic
curriculum areas. The French Hill computer lab houses 24 computers and a laser
printer.
Primary Time
Primary Time is
a one-hour period in the morning set aside to enable classroom teachers to
provide reading/language arts instruction in smaller, more homogeneous groups.
This is accomplished by keeping half the students in the classroom for 30
minutes while the other half attends a special area class (music, art,
physical education, computer, and library). The groups are reversed for the
second 30 minutes
