SIXTH - EIGHTH GRADE

ART

•   Weekly attendance
• Learning benchmarks:
• Exploration of various mediums from painting, drawing and innovative materials
• Learning concepts such as color theory, shading techniques, and drawing perspective

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• Bi-weekly attendance
• Learning Benchmarks:
• the content standards emphasize working cooperatively to achieve a common goal, meeting challenges, making decisions, and working as a team to solve problems
• Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health
• Students learn psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity

MUSIC

• Weekly attendance
• Learning Benchmarks:
• Students learn to read music and solidify their understanding of various music theories

All grades perform in a yearly Christmas Concert

SPANISH

• Bi-weekly attendance
• Learning Benchmarks:
• Foundations of the language; greetings, introductions, gender of nouns, adjectives, articles, etc.
• Wide range of vocabulary enhanced
• Learn subject pronouns, and the concept of conjugation
• Introduced to AR-ER-IR regular and irregular verbs
• Learn the past and present progressive and future tense

All grades study these concepts with different degrees of difficulty

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