PreK - Kindergarten:

Identifying lines, shapes and colors (primary and secondary). Exploring and creating texture, collage, and printmaking. Expanding creative ways of thinking and sharing artwork with fellow students in class. Learning to use scissors, glue, paint brushes, pencils, colored pencils, and pastels. Learning through stories about Dr. Suess, Eric Carle, Vincent VanGogh, and Henri Marisse. 

1st - 3rd:

Drawing from imagination and through observation, weaving paper and using fibers, learning to identify relief, mosaics, and sculptures. Learning positive and negative space and how to create a focal point. Working with realistic and abstract forms and textures. Materials to be used include markers, yarn, crayons, pastels, was resist and watercolor. Expanding creative ways of thinking and sharing artwork with fellow students in class. Studying the artwork of Faith Ringgold, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joan Miro and Jean-Michael Basquiat. 

4th - 6th:

Creating intricate line designs, landscapes, and citiscapes. Learning about symmetry and asymetry, complimentary colors, and warm and cool colors. Identifying light sources and learning how to show depth of space through foreground, middleground and background. Expanding creative ways of thinking and sharing artwork with fellow students in class. Learning about the artwork of Friedensreich Hunderwasser, Edward Hopper and Henri Rousseau. 

7th - 8th: 

Some materials used to create art in the upper middle school include polymer clay textured relief moasics and bead, wax resist with watercolor, layering and collaging with tissue paper. Students will draw in linear perspective, build on identifying light sources and learn how to show depth of space through foreground, middlegoround and background. Students will also draw expressive portraits and study characterisitics of the modern art movements. 

Kindergarten: Students will be learning about colors, numbers, likes and dislikes, seasons, Ratoncito Perez, animals, feelings and greetings throughout the year. They will be learning to speak, read, and write in Spanish.

1st - 3rd: Students will be learning about various holidays celebrated in Spanish speaking countries. They will also learn how to speak, read and write about their feelings, likes and dislikes, seasons, and food. We will also study themes on geography. The second graders will learn about the life cycle of butterflies and the yearly migration to Mexico. The third graders will study a unit about Space and Celia Cruz.

4th - 5th: Students learn how to speak, read and write about their feelings, likes and dislikes, and what they like to do during different seasons. They will learn how to talk about their favorite hobbies and sports. They will laugh when they learn about Tio de Nadal which is a Christmas tradition.

6th - 8th: Students will be learning to speak, read and write Spanish through reading passages, videos, songs and games using a program called SOMOS. There are themes about the Day of the Dead, the San Silvestre race, and the running of the Bulls. THey will also read about and listen to different types of music and learn about the history of it. 

Grades 4th - 8th:

Students are encouraged to learn to play an instrument. 

Each student enrolled in the band program will attend a thirty minute group lesson on his/her chosen instrument during the week (a pull-out from class).  In addition, during the weeks approaching a concert, band students will attend 30-minute mixed ensemble rehearsals of band concert music, also during the school day. Students acquire their own books and instruments. 

Instruction offered for the following: 

Woodwinds (Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone)

Brass (Trumpet, Trombone)

Percussion (Snare Drum, Piano)

Strings (Guitar, Ukulele, Violin)

Religous education occurs for every grade level. Sacramental preparation (1st Reconciliation and First Holy Communion) is provided within religion class in tandem with your parish's CCD classes. 

The day starts with morning prayer and we have weekly prayer services and monthly mass.