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 * 2008-2009, 2009-2010 **

Art 2009-2010: In art, we will focus on the question, "what are our rights and responsibilities as members of a learning?" We will discuss the art classroom as a learning community and decide upon the roles and responsibilities of each individual, which effect the entire group and are essential to keeping the room clean, safe, organized, and a positive working environment. When writing our essential agreements, students will categorize each agreement into one of the following transdisciplinary skill categories: social skills, communication skills, and self-management skills. We will also discuss ways in which we can be positive world citizens as well as members of a classroom and local community. Each student will create a "Pinwheel for Peace" expressing their wishes for creating a culture of peace. Pinwheels will join together as a symbol of unity and students will discuss how people can use visual art as a form of advocacy. While creating their positive wishes for the world, students will use the following attitudes: appreciation, creativity, respect, and tolerance. They will also strive to have the learner profile traits: caring, open-minded, thinker, and principled.

In art, we will focus on the question, "what are our rights and responsibilities as members of a learning community?" We will discuss the art classroom as a learning community and decide upon the roles and responsibilities of each individual, which effect the entire group and are essential to keeping the room clean, safe, organized, and a positive working environment. When writing our essential agreements, students will categorize each agreement into one of the following transdisciplinary skill categories: social skills, communication skills, and self management skills. We will also discuss ways in which we can be positive world citizens as well as members of a classroom and local community. Each student will create a "Pinwheel for Peace" expressing their wishes for creating a culture of peace. Pinwheels will join together as a symbol of unity and use visual art as a form of advocacy for global peace. Along the same lines, students will create a "hand for peace" to join together with others from around the world as part of the "Global Art Project for Peace." While considering the diversity of people from around the world, students will use the following __attitudes__: appreciation, creativity, respect, and tolerance. They will also strive to be: caring, open-minded, thinkers, and principled ( __learner profile__).

Music In 4th grade music class we will sing the songs //__In That Great Getting’ Up Morning__, __This Train is Bound For Glory__, __Someone is__ __Knocking at Your door__, __God Bless America__//, //__De Colores__//, //__Cantare Cantaras,__// and our school song, //__Spicewood Stand Together__//, which are examples of the many songs we will sing and listen to that speak to: Beliefs and Values, Rights and responsibilities, Human relationships, and especially: What it means to be human. The human condition is interwoven into music of all cultures. So as we experience different music, we are constantly considering what it means to be human. Music is an elemental way that we reflect our humanity.

PE Physical education focuses on the concepts of sportsmanship which include all the pyp attitudes. We sing the "attitude song" and consistently take opportunities to incorporate them in team-building and activities to promote cooperation.


 * Spanish **- To support the central idea that we are part of an international community of learners with rights and responsibilities, we will write our essential agreements for Spanish and talk about our responsibilities to our classmates and our own right to learn unhindered. The "mystery attitude" of the week bulletin board will encourage students to practice all the attitudes all the time.

**Library** The students will identify the characteristics of a variety of genres and think about their personal favorite genre to bring attention to the fact that everyone is unique and has different likes/dislikes.