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Beaches Campus Fine Arts

Art
  • The Pre-K classes utilize art as a sensory tool. Age-appropriate projects allow them to create their own masterpieces. Students develop fine-motor skills through the use of paint brushes, crayons, and play dough.
  • Art classes are attended by students in Kindergarten through fifth grade in a fully equipped art suite. 
  • Students develop small motor skills such as cutting, coloring, gluing, and shaping small clay forms. They are also taught the basic elements of art (line, shape, texture, form and composition), spatial relationships, background consideration, and color combinations. 
  • Media for older students include clay, oil, chalk, ink, and mixed media. Older students will gain an increasing respect for art, familiarity with great artists and their work, and will fine tune their skills by using perspective and observation skills of sizes and shapes in placement of a composition. 
  • Art projects often correlate with classroom curriculum across all grade levels.
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Performing Arts
  • All children have the opportunity to gain confidence and develop a sense of self by performing in front of an audience. They continue to participate in musicals and theatrical productions throughout their time on the Beaches Campus.
  • Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 classes perform music and dancing for special chapel events.
  • Kindergarten students thrill audiences with a traditional Christmas play each December.
  • First graders present a performance showcase.
  • Second, and third graders present a Spring musical.
  • Fourth graders present a performance showcase.
  • Fifth graders present song and dance at the annual Pasta Dinner and a spectacular musical performance every spring filled with drama, singing and dancing!
  • Children in all grades lead a beautiful Lessons and Carols service each December.
Dance
  • The Lower School Dance program gives every elementary aged student the opportunity to participate in dance regardless of level or years of experience. All Pre-K students take Movement classes and all K-5 graders take dance classes.
  • Students are introduced to and explore movement, while also focusing on coordination, flexibility, and strength. 
  • Students will spend time learning different genres of dance including jazz, hip hop, ballet, musical theater, and much more. Not only will students learn techniques that are required of these styles, but they will also learn choreography throughout the year. 
  • There are more opportunities for students to expand their knowledge and training of dance through after school activities.
Music
  • Students practice skills and enhance their music reading abilities with both hands-on instruction as well as assistance through technology.
  • Annon-pitched percussion instruments (drums, rattles, and bells), pitched percussion (xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, and timpani), as well as guitars, ukuleles, and soprano recorders. Students also use the Quaver Music computer program to learn music reading skills.
  • Violin is offered for children grades 2-5 before school. Additional private music lessons are frequently offered as an after school activity.
Drama

Students in grades 4 and 5 take a drama class which introduces them to all elements of theatrical production: Confidence, Characterization, Collaboration. In these classes, students learn how to speak clearly, feel comfortable in front of an audience, and explore the fun of acting on stage.