Additional Educational Opportunities

• Art Offered weekly to Elementary students, the Art Program provides instruction in artistic techniques and varying media, encouraging students to try different ways of creative expression. Art is integrated into the curriculum.

• Computers Beginning in 1st grade, Elementary students learn the basics of computer keyboarding, advancing their technology curriculum and producing EduTyping, a cloud-based program which allows them to work at school and at home. Supervision encourages a focus on accuracy and automatically scored lessons coupled with fun games reinforce learning. Internet safety and full technology literacy is integrated.

• Music Appreciation and Band Weekly classes full of musical building blocks to awaken and develop your child’s inborn joy and talent for making music. Programs are age-appropriate and incorporate the internationally acclaimed Musikgarten curriculum at younger ages. Children are exposed to music from around the world, different instruments and their sounds, musical play, tonal and rhythmic patterns as well as locomotive movement. Supplemental music classes and Band at the Elementary and Secondary School levels also focus on reading music, music appreciation and instrumental study, utilizing the SmartMusic computerized program for home practice that can be monitored by the instructor.

• Gardening Each classroom has its own garden, to reinforce the biology, ecology and sciences programs studied at each level. Through weekly interaction with the environment, students learn about the interconnectedness of our natural world’s plants and animals and take away knowledge and techniques they can implement at home.