NIU Art Education Partnership

We partner with Northern Illinois University to provide our students with an art program.
The NIU Art students create a curriculum through various mediums for all grades and teach them
skills to express themselves through art.

​Twice a year, we host an art show open to families. 
​We are always so impressed at how wonderful the displays turn out. 

Music Program

Our music curriculum focuses on Kodály based singing from preschool through grade 2. Alongside the standard classroom instruments, students also get to explore piano and drum basics in these grades.

Students in grade 3 get a semester of recorders to further explore melody lines. Students in grade 4 get a semester of ukuleles for a focus on chords and the harmonic structure of music. We continue to play with recorders and ukuleles to reinforce musical concepts in grade 5.

Grades 6-8 have unit studies in choir, music technology, music history, world music, and modern band.

Extra Curricular Music Activities

Musicals

Students 4th-8th grade audition to be a part of the spring musical! We rehearse one day week after school and during lunch and recess in January/February. The show hits the stage in March and is always a highlight of the school year.
Students also are on the Crew, working behind the scenes, running the microphones and lights, and making our production a success!  

2015: The Wizard of Oz
2016: Willy Wonka, Jr. 
2017: The Lion King, Jr. 
2018: The LIttle Mermaid, Jr. 
2019: Beauty and the Beast, Jr. 
2020: Peter Pan, Jr. 
2022: High School Musical, Jr. 
2023: Aladdin Jr. 

Concerts

Band Program
We celebrate Grandparents Day in September and a Christmas Concert in December with all grades.
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Our Spring Sing in May is for our 
​PreKindergarten-3rd Grade students.
Students in grades 4 - 8 can participate in our
Band Program. We have two bands, a begginer band and Lancer Band for more experinced students. 

​We have an end of the year concert for families.