Lincoln's Performing Arts Education program includes three distinct disciplines: dance, drama/theatre, and music -- each with its own body of knowledge and skills. The content for the performing arts is aligned with Kentucky's academic expectations. Our performing arts curriculum will provide students with an exploration of instrumental music (band, orchestra, Orff instruments) and vocal music experiences; provide students with an exploration of dance (creative movement, ballet, modern); and provide students with an exploration of creative drama/theatre (improvisation, mimicry, pantomime, role playing, storytelling, dramatic performances and presentations).
Our schedule allows for instruction in dance, drama, and music on all grade levels. We also have after-school classes on Wednesday and Thursday provided by the Louisville Ballet.
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts School uses a multi-faceted approach to teaching reading. We combine the best practices of Reading Mastery in our primary classes Kindergarten through graade two with the five-block model using Rigby materials in the intermediate grades three through five. Student are tested and placed in small reading groups based upon their own individual and unique learning styles.
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts School is in its second year of the Math Investigations 2 program. This program presents a hand on conceptual approach to math skills and procedures. Students use manipulatives combined with problem-solving strategies to solve problems. Students also have a chance to share their strategies with others and learn from each other. Skills and procedures are fused in with the concepts needed for a full understanding of math.
Math and Music Integrated lesson.
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts School uses the FOSS science modules to provide a hands-on approach to science that is fundamentally fun and interesting for students. These science experiences are age-appropriate and designed to actively engage students to think critically and learn important scientific concepts. The students use science notebooks, which gives them an opportunity to write and reflect on what they are learning.
Personal narratives, functional "How to's," reports and other informational pieces, poems, responses to literature and more genres are explored and composed at Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts School during the writing period. Students are taught the strategies and then given independent writing time to explore and practice. Sharing of the writing and a chance for feedback are also components of this process.
The social studies curriculum at Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts School focuses on an awareness of self in relationship to the home, school, community, in the primary grades. In the intermediate grades, the focal point changes to encompass the study of geography, systems of local, state and national government, individuals and groups who have shaped the history of the United States.
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