Specials
The St. Rose School music program is a multifaceted program designed to provide knowledge in a broad repertoire of musical styles, composers, and theory as well as skills for children at age appropriate levels.
Grades TK-2 - Students are introduced, through both listening and participation, to music theory through simple songs that teach them the note names, tempos and musical dynamics. Students experience exposure to a wide-range of musical styles and composers, including world music.
Grade 3 - Students begin to learn more about music including music history. Curriculum includes beginning aural skills in both rhythm and pitch.
Grade 4 - Students build on their previous experiences and begin learning soprano recorder.
Grade 5 - Students continue to build on previous experience with intermediate aural skills, as well as learning ukulele and harmonic functions.
Grades Kindergarten-3
Our Program focuses on three major areas that contribute to one’s physical health and well being: Movement Concepts. The program emphasizes the variety of locomotor fundamentals (e.g. running, skipping, hopping), as well as changes of direction and speeds, different ways to balance, jump and land, spatial awareness, chasing, fleeing, dodging, and body awareness.
Skill Themes. Basic skills such as throwing, catching, kicking, volleying, dribbling, tumbling activities, and rhythmic movements, are emphasized in each class period.
Wellness Concepts. The wellness concepts taught throughout the year include healthy and unhealthy foods, and the components of fitness which are muscular strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance.
Grades 4-8
Physical education is an integral part of the educational program for all students. It teaches students how their bodies move, how to perform a variety of physical activities, the health-related benefits of regular physical activity, and specific skills that will allow them to adopt a physically active, healthy lifestyle. It also provides learning experiences that meet the developmental needs of students. With physical education, students become confident, independent, self-controlled, and resilient; develop positive social skills; learn to set and strive for personal, achievable goals; learn to assume leadership, cooperate with others, and accept responsibility for their own behavior; and improve their academic performance.
There are five overall model content standards for elementary and middle school children.
- Demonstrate motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies as they apply to learning and performance of physical activities.
- Assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.
- Demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.
- Demonstrate and utilize knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies as applied to learning and performance of physical activity.
In grades 4 and 5, the specific content standards emphasize how students move in their environment, moving through space and time, how they (student and a partner) move in space together, continuity and change in movement, manipulating objects in time and through space, and manipulating objects with accuracy and speed. In grades 6,7, and 8, the specific content standards emphasize working cooperatively to achieve a common goal, meeting challenges and making decisions, higher level gameplay mechanics, and working as a team to solve problems.
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The primary goal of the St. Rose School Spanish Program is to introduce the students to basic Spanish with a progressive curriculum for each grade level and to prepare the students for Spanish 1 in high school. The TK students attend Spanish classes once a week and students in grades K through 8th attend twice a week.
Students will be introduced to a full range of Spanish vocabulary, the nuance of conversational Spanish language, spelling and sentence structure. In conjunction with language instruction, our students explore culture and history as well as Catholic traditions of the 21 Spanish speaking countries.