Physical Education
Teacher: Mark Kelley

Core Curriculum: S.P.A.R.K Curriculum; Teaching Sport Concepts & Skills-A Tactical Game Approach

Curriculum Overview: 
In this course, students receive Physical Education instruction five days a week for 45 to 50 minutes a day. Instruction will be provided in the areas of motor skill development, fitness, sports and social development. Students will know how to assess and improve personal fitness levels by engaging in physical activities specifically related to each component of physical fitness. Students will learn and have the opportunity to experience the differences between personal challenges and competition in both recreational activities and in sports with an emphasis placed upon being personally responsible, cooperative and a team-player. Finally, students will continue to develop cooperation and communication skills to enable completion of a common goal while working with a partner, in small groups or on a team.

P.E. Goals:

• Demonstration of motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform in a variety of physical challenges.
• Demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts and strategies as they apply to learning and performance in games and physical activities.
• Develop and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve performance and overall health.
• Demonstrate knowledge of social concepts and strategies as they apply to learning and performance in physical activities.

Junior High Art
Teacher: Camille Geraci

Curriculum Overview:
For students to become familiar with different styles of artwork as well as various processes for making two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork, and inclusive of the California State Visual Art Education Content Standards.

Course Goals:

• Use different forms of perspective to show the illusion of depth in a two-dimensional surface.
• Develop skill in using mixed media while guided by a selected principle of design.
• Develop skill in mixing paints and showing color relationships.
• Compare and contrast works of art from various periods, styles, and cultures and explain how those works reflect the society in which they were made as well as what they communicate.
• Use vocabulary words from the elements of art and the principles of design when viewing art reproductions and making original works of art.
  

Music
Teacher: David Hopper

Core Textbook: Making Music K-8, Silver Burdett Ginn 

Course Overview:
Students will learn the basics of music including, rhythm, beat, tone, expression, music notation and genre. They will be introduced to and study a majority of the genres of music and the great composers of each. Music instruction is an organic learning process and is adjusted to the needs of each class. In the upper grades music technology is introduced and encouraged. 

Course Goals:

• Establish a love and appreciation of music and music genres.
  
• Introduce music notation and theory.
  
• Ignite a curiosity for learning music.
  
• Understand and practice proper etiquette in music performances.
  
• Use music software to create/perform original music.