lower school
e lower school years are the time to
build a foundation for a lifelong appreciation
of the arts.
Children engage in music, theater, dance,
drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking
and ceramics and are encouraged to explore
and experiment. ey visit museums and
cultural institutions and study the works
and lives of artists.
Arts activities are integrated in the classroom
curriculum, whether students are creating
clay sundials during the first grade unit on
Mexican culture or making Japanese prints
during the fourth grade unit on East Asia.
Outside the Classroom
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wind ensemble
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student art shows
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grade-level assemblies
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after school resources for
grades 1-4, including visual
arts, performing arts and
instrument instruction.
In our art room
students touch art.
They put their hands
in clay. They put
mosaics together. They
get to feel materials
and fabricate things."
– BRENDA FRIEDMAN,
LOWER SCHOOL ART TEACHER
