Academic Enrichment

Computer

Children attend computer class weekly, beginning in kindergarten. Young children increase their computer literacy by learning the components of the computer and working with software programs that reinforce the school's curriculum. Older children progress through more advanced topics, which include research skills, high-level thinking skills, and curricular reinforcement.

Foreign Language and Travel

Exposure to Spanish or French begins in kindergarten and continues through the eighth grade. These programs are highlighted by class trips to France, Mexico or Spain for seventh and eighth graders. Many of our students qualify for advanced placement in second-year language courses when they enter high school.

Visual Arts

Weekly classes in drawing, painting, charcoal sketching and art appreciation are offered.

Music

VOCAL MUSIC
Students learn and study many different musical concepts. The level of difficulty varies by grade level. During class, students explore many kinds of music, engage in varied musical behaviors, develop musical concepts and make musical judgments. Vocal music is part of the regular Clintonville Academy curriculum. Two concerts are performed each year and all students participate in both concerts.

Kinds of Music: This includes music of our own heritage and the heritage of others, music composed at different times and places, combinations of voices and instruments, and how music reflects the many forms of emotions.

Varied Musical Behavior: This includes the performance of music that someone else created, describing the music that someone else performed, and creating music that expresses our own ideas.

Develop Musical Concepts: This includes studying pitch, duration and timbre and how these elements are controlled through volume, tempo, and articulation and learning how these elements are organized into musical structures that create an expressive whole.

Make Musical Judgments: This includes discussing musical and career choices and also encourages student involvement in out-of-school-activities and support of music in the community.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Third grade students may choose to play the recorder. Rehearsals are held once or twice a week during school.

Fourth graders may participate in Beginning Band and fifth through eighth graders may participate in Advanced Band. Some adjustments as to band placement may be made at the discretion of the band director depending on the experience of the student. Instrumental band is optional for students to participate in and rehearsals are held once a week after school. The band director offers an opportunity for students to be fitted for instruments at the beginning of the year. Parents may purchase or rent instruments from the store of their choice. Two concerts are performed each year.