Fine arts team:

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ARTS
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At Narragansett Elementary School
Fine arts team Deborah Crary Kathy
Peabody Terry Burke Betty LaPointe Sandy
Menke March 2002
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The multifaceted arts program includes
Visual Arts
General Music
Musical Performance
Integrated Arts
Enrichment
Cultural Programs
Arts outreach
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Visual Arts
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Create a New You!
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or Reveal Your True Self
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Discover Your Creativity!
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Developmentally appropriate lessons,
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integrated with literature and
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other academic areas provide children with a
rich and challenging art education.
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Learning styles are as varied as the colors of
the rainbow.
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Art provides alternate avenues to understanding.
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Art brings a greater enjoyment to the learning
process and reaches those students who may be
visual learners.
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Art education nurtures the creative drive.
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Pathways are opened to lifelong involvement in
the arts during their school career and into
adulthood.
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MUSIC
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The student is PERCEIVER PERFORMER CREATOR CR
ITIC
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We value our own music and that of others.
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General Music
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Movement helps students perceive tempo, the speed
of the beat.
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Third graders create sounds to retell a story.
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Second graders accompany the class as they sing.
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Reading rhythm and chord notation and
practicing in small groups
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Children notate a song theyve sung.
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Music Performance
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Ninety third and fourth graders sing
in Chorus.
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The Fourth Grade Recorder Ensemble plays at our
Winter Concert.
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Students from the enrichment programs
String Class join us for our Winter
Concert.
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Integrated Arts
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Fourth graders represent a cumulus cloud through
a tableau. They wrote a haiku about their cloud
and composed music for the poem.
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Third graders create a collage of sounds heard
in the woods.
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Graphically notating their sounds and performing
from the score, students practice map skills.
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What do you do when youre afraid?
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After reading The Ghost-Eye Tree children
expressed with movement what they would do if
they were afraid. Then they painted their
version of the tree.