Maranatha Christian Academy Typical Course of Study

SECOND & THIRD GRADE COURSES Typical Course of Study 9 Fine Arts Bible • Stories from the Old Testament • Thanksgiving • Christmas • Easter • Stories from the New Testament • Mary and Joseph • Jesus • Peter • Paul and Barnabus • Paul and Silas • Monthly Bible verse memorization Music Education • Dynamics (piano, forte, crescendo/ decrescendo) • Getting faster vs. getting slower • Steady beat, no steady beat, off beat • Changing tempos • Strong vs. weak beat • Basic music notation • Meter in 2 and 3 • Form (ab, aba, aaba, aabb, rondo) • Solo and chorus/call response • Higher vs. lower • Steps, skips, and repeated tones • Basic pentatonic scale • Singing and playing upward and downward melodies • Nature vs. machine sounds Art Education • Pointillism painting • Tangram puzzle making • Box puppets • Stencil shirt designing • Yarn painting • Winter portraits • Butterfly drawing • Found object shoe sculptures • Shoe printmaking • Shoe contour drawing • Found object shoe sculptures • Art history Physical Education • Presidential Physical Fitness Testing • Cooperation games • Soccer • Cup stacking • Kinball or parachute • Badminton • Floor hockey • Jumping for Healthy Hearts • Basketball • Roller skating • Climbing wall • Kickball Technology Kingdom Culture • Working for digital photography • Daily morning meetings • Working with graphics using photo editor • Weekly chapel with all lower school students • Working with graphics using microsoft paint • Word Processing (Microsoft Word) • Presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint) • Discuss respect and relationships • All-school chapel (3x a year) • Desktop publishing (Microsoft Publisher) • Speedball • Ultimate frisbee • Seurat • Chinese • Mexico • Marie Sibylla Merian • Philip Guston • Voice tone qualities male, female, child) • Basic instrument recognition • Jesus’ ministry • The Holy Spirit • The Early Church • Missionaries’ ministries • Monthly Bible verse memorization • Dynamics (piano, forte, crescendo/ decrescendo) • Getting faster vs. getting slower • Steady beat, no steady beat, off beat • Color exploration • Presidential Physical Fitness Testing • Papier mache bowls • Soccer • Texture bookmaking • Kinball or parachute • Clay slab vases • Floor hockey • Wire mobile • Basketball • Art history • Climbing wall • Value shading • Cooperation games • Figure drawing • Cup stacking • Changing tempos • Cartoon drawing • Badminton • Basic music notation • Fruit and vegetable prints • Jumping for Healthy Hearts • Tile mosaic • Roller skating • Prayer • Strong vs. weak beat • Forgiveness • Meter in 2 and 3 • Sharing • Drawing a still life • Form (ab, aba, aaba, aabb, rondo) • Solo and chorus/call response • Higher vs. lower • Steps, skips, and rpeated tones • Basic pentatonic scale • Melodies • Nature vs. machine sounds • Voice tone qualities • Basic instrument recognition • Wayne Theibaud • Kickball • Greek Vases • Ultimate frisbee • Georgia O’Keeffe • Animation • Henri Matisse • Speedball • The importance of keyboarding • Wordprocessing (Microsoft Word) • Presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint) • Desktop publishing (Microsoft Publisher) • Telecommunication (Internet Explorer) • Internet safety • Researching skills • Daily morning meetings • Discuss respect and relationships • Weekly chapel with all lower school students • All-school chapel (3x a year)

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