Specialist Subjects

Nursery and JK students explore art with their homeroom teachers, and beginning in SK, students have art with our art teacher for a semester each year. Rooted in art history, the curriculum invites students to study influential artists and use that inspiration to guide their own creations—building creativity, problem-solving skills, and confidence.

The Discovery Center serves students from Nursery through 6th Grade. Lower Division classes visit weekly for story time, book checkout, and hands-on centers that support literacy and library skills. Upper Division students visit once or twice a month as a class and also enjoy the independence of stopping by on their own and checking out books.

Beginning in JK, every grade participates in a play designed to support students' social and emotional development while strengthening skills like projection, expression, and teamwork. Younger students practice the fundamentals of acting through original plays and storytelling, while older students take on more complex roles—developing characters and practicing empathy.

In Nursery and JK, students are introduced to French through weekly songs, stories, greetings, and early vocabulary. Beginning in SK, language learning deepens through themed units, role-play, cultural exploration, and early reading, which grows into writing by second grade.

By third through sixth grade, students build fluency by reading short passages and novels, writing complete sentences, and engaging in conversations about stories and other topics.

Lower Division students build a strong musical foundation through singing, movement, games, percussion instruments, piano, composition, and the study of composers. They develop skills in rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and steady beat.

Upper Division students expand their musicianship by reading music, learning recorder and pitched percussion, and composing original works. They also join choir and band in fifth grade.

In the Lower Division, students develop foundational P.E. skills through activities like ball handling, mindfulness exercises, running, and cooperative games. These experiences support gross motor proficiency, social-emotional growth, proper body mechanics, and physical coordination and strength.

Upper Division students build on these skills through a wide range of sports, including soccer, basketball, volleyball, field hockey, and track and field.

Nursery and JK students begin exploring science with their homeroom teachers and, starting in JK, make weekly visits to science. In the Lower Division, students begin learning about coding and investigate topics like weather, habitats, Earth’s processes, and the solar system through hands-on experiments and projects. As they grow, their learning deepens—analyzing ecosystems, studying energy and plant systems, exploring cells under microscopes, learning chemistry, and designing LEGO robotics.

Students begin woodshop in SK, learning safety, hand-tool techniques, and creative decision-making as they complete their first projects. Each project builds skills for the next. By 5th grade, students use the full range of hand tools and begin working with power tools, and in 6th grade, they design and complete an independent project.

Students engage with math, science, and language arts as they measure, engineer, and reflect in their woodshop journals.