Arts, Lower School
In Art, students will be able to:
- Organize and track many pieces of an individual project.
- Become more familiar withself-expression through a variety of materials and processes.
- Understand basics of video editing and animation on a computer.

In Music, students will be able to:
- Recognize, read, and write note values in bothduple and triple meter (2/4, 4/4, 3/4, & 6/8).
- Sing a variety of American folk songs in two and three part harmony, and sing partner songs and rounds.
- Learn to play the soprano recorder and baritone ukelele withproper technique, and develop ensemble skills on Orff instruments (xylophones and percussion).
- Improvise, compose, and notate songs for the recorder.
- Perform songs and folk dances related to California history and the Gold Rush era, and American play party songs and dances.

Arts, Middle School
In Art, students will be able to:
- Understand realism through a variety of painting, drawing, photo and spatial mediums.
- Understand observation and interpretation.
- Implement basic design skills and vocabulary.
- Digital Photography: Take, edit and develop photos.

In Music, students will be able to:
- Sing in 2 part harmony and parallel octaves.
- Compose long-form compositions (such as theme and variations and rondo form).
- Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of classical and modern day composers, African slave and jazz music and various careers in the music industry.
- Play more complex music on the guitar, xylophone, and recorder.
- Perform Renaissance, traditional African, American swing and lindy-hop dances.