St. Christopher School

Fine Arts Dept. in New Location

We are pleased that the Fine Arts Dept. will be relocating to the Parish Hall this Fall! The new setting will provide versatility, flexibility, and storage facilities.

In addition, as home base for the music program, it will offer valuable rehearsal space as well as room for project completion and display.

Exciting Plans for Fall Modules

The Fine Arts incorporates art, music, and the performing arts, as well as extracurricular enrichment classes offered on a variety of topics.

This fall our first module will be an “Ice Cream Class” in conjunction with a well-known ice cream store that will include a tasting experience and demonstration on how ice cream is made. More information coming…

Also being developed are classes with cooking themes and classes that explore handcrafting such as wood shop.

New Video Camera

The Fine Arts and Computer classes will come together in school projects this year with our new school video camera! The possibilities are endless as we integrate programs to create music CD’s and videos together.

Music Classes

Plans are to continue an active music curriculum for each class. Musical skills and objectives will be presented sequentially in weekly lessons that support the National Standards for Arts Education*. Age appropriate concepts about rhythm and melody will be taught using folk songs and rhymes, as well as children’s games and dances.

*National Standards for Arts Education

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.