Art Curriculum for Grades K-3
Art class is a fun, hands-on learning experience that children look forward to each week. Students in K-3 have a 45-minute art class once a week. The primary goal of the art curriculum is to provide the younger student with creative opportunities using a variety of art materials. Projects include drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, collage, and ceramics. Students will also become familiar with art vocabulary and experience an introduction to art appreciation.

Students in the lower elementary should bring an art shirt/smock to school. This will be kept in their homeroom, and brought to art class each week. We also ask that each student bring a tub of baby wipes for clean up.

It is a joy to see the God-given creativity and spontaneity of younger children. Our desire is to encourage the pleasure of creating beauty as a reflection of the creative nature of our heavenly Father.

Art Curriculum for Grades 4-7
Did you know that more Americans go to museums than to sporting events? Art is important to people and culture!

The art curriculum at Providence is designed to provide creative opportunities, develop aesthetic awareness, and encourage artistic potential. Students will learn about design, composition, color, contrast, shape and texture, and become very familiar with art vocabulary. A variety of art materials will be used on projects that include drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, collage, and ceramics. There will also be an emphasis on art history and appreciation.

Students in grades 4-7 have a 45-minute art class once a week. In grades 6 and 7, students also have the opportunity to enroll in a semester of advanced art.

It is a joy to see the God-given talent of our students, and to be a part of stretching their imagination and skill. Our desire is to encourage the pleasure of creating beauty as a reflection of the creative nature of our Heavenly Father.

Fine Arts Electives for Sixth and Seventh Graders
In your home, there just may be a budding Mozart or John Philip Sousa who’s forever tuning up, an Amy Grant or a Steven Curtis Chapman singing away in the shower, a Michelangelo or Georgia O’Keefe using up all the blank paper in the house, or perhaps an Olivier or a Sarah Bernhart soliloquizing even when no one’s listening. In such cases, allow us to offer artistic inspiration with the following elective courses.

ADVANCED ART: (One Semester)
Advanced art’s goal is to provide the serious art student with more in-depth instruction in technique, and the use of more specialized art materials. Projects will include advanced drawing instruction, linoleum block printing, beginning photography, and three-dimensional sculpture.

BAND: (Full Year)
The goal in sixth grade band is to introduce a beginning musician (no pre-requisites required, yet experience is welcome!) to their instrument and start them reading and playing to a performance level. In seventh grade (pre-requisite of completion of year one at Providence or book one with private instruction), the student enjoys opportunities with pep band, various honor band clinics, along with valuable in-class fun. The student will participate in two concerts, Christmas and spring. Band class is held two times per week.

DRAMA: (One Semester)
The goal in drama class is to equip the beginning actor with a few stage basics including, parts of the stage, blocking terms, writing stage directions in a script, etc. Students gain experience in stage presentation, vocals techniques, and scene work, with the added goal of gaining confidence when speaking in the classroom.

GUITAR: (One Semester)
The goal of the guitar elective class is to expand on the chording skills learned in the general music class. The focus will be on learning to read and play melodies as well as to become familiar with various strumming rhythms.

Music
WHY? Our God is an awesome, creative God. We are created in His image. Music is a gift from God given to us to glorify Him, as well as, to enrich our lives and the lives of others. The purpose of music at Providence is to engage students in the active making of, listening to, and responding to music in order to praise God, relate to others in positive ways, and to enjoy and develop the gifts He has given. Every student is musical and creative, and should have the opportunity to grow and develop as God has gifted him/her. Musical activities contribute to the total development of the child mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and aesthetically.

HOW? In a rich, varied, and positive learning environment fostered by Orff creativity, Kodaly musical literacy, and High/Scope movement, the music teacher will encourage and seek to enable students to sing, play instruments, create, improvise, notate and read, analyze, evaluate, and listen to music, as well as, develop an understanding of music and how it relates to the other arts, as well as to culture and history. These objectives are based on the national standards for K-7, as outlined by the National Association of Music Educators.

WHAT? Activities are directed toward these goals and objectives using speech, singing, movement, listening, drama, and playing instruments. Each class is designed to engage the student in active music-making, listening to, and responding to music.

WHEN? Students in grades K-2 meet three times per week for ½ hour.
Students in grades 3-5 meet two times per week for 45 minutes.
Students in grades 6-7 meet one time per week for 45 minutes.
Students in grades 6-7 also have the opportunity to choose band or guitar during the school day one-two times per week.

Physical Education (P.E.)
The purpose of P.E. is to add to the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social growth of the child. Physical Education enhances all aspects of the being that God created to be our temples on earth. We, as physical educators, strive to incorporate the physical along with what is being taught in other areas of our curriculum.

“Becoming physically educated is a developmental process that begins in early childhood and continues throughout life. The physical education program involves the total child and includes physical, mental, social, and emotional growth experiences. The physical education program provides instruction that will enable the pursuit of physical fitness and a lifetime of physical activity,” by George Graham from the book “Children Moving.”

Curriculum for Grades K-2
The physical education program will introduce your child to movement, sports, and recreational activities. The goal is to help children see physical activity as a benefit to their life, and to help them want to exercise for the rest of their lives. The program will involve a variety of activities that teach basic skills including, spatial awareness, fitness, throwing, catching, striking, volleying, dribbling, kicking, and loco-motor movements. Sports skills and rules will be taught with an emphasis on good sportsmanship.

Curriculum for Grades 4-7
The physical education program will introduce the students to various sports and recreational activities. The goal is to help the student realize the benefits of exercise and sports and to integrate exercise into his/her daily life.

The program will involve a variety of activities that teach fitness, throwing, catching, striking, volleying, dribbling, kicking, and locomotor skills. Sports skills and rules will be taught, and teamwork and good sportsmanship will be strongly emphasized.