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Enrichment Class Snapshots
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Fine Arts News
ACES - Academic Enrichment Students
ELD - English Language Development
Guidance
Reading
Speech and Language
Title I -
Art
In the art program at MQHR our objective is to teach art with enthusiasm and excitement. We integrate art as much as possible so that the students know that art is in everything that we do. Art teaches our children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships and that problems can have more than one solution. Art also teaches students that small differences can have large effects. Students learn to think through and within a material. Students also learn to say what cannot be said. At MQHR, art enables us to have experience we can have from no other source.
Band
MQHR Students have the opportunity to learn an instrument by playing in the school Band. Class instruction begins in the 5th grade and continues through middle school. Band students meet by grade level two times per week and present 3 concerts each year. These annual performances include a Christmas Concert, a Spring Concert and the Diocesan Area Band Concert held each March. Middle school band students also have the opportunity to participate in events sponsored by the Kentucky Music Educator’s Association. These events include the regional Solo and Ensemble Festival and the District 7 Honor Band.
Media
Media class at MQ is a combination of library and computer classes. PreK-5th grade come to Media once a week. Preschool concentrates on the love of books. We do activities based on a variety of books. The 4 year olds work on mouse skills towards the end of the year to prepare them for Kindergarten. Kindergarten - 5th grade work on a variety of library skills including parts of books, where books are located in the library, and how to find books appropriate for them to read. The computer aspect of Media classes concentrates on correct usage of the computer. This includes: keyboarding, mouse skills, Digital Citizenship, and Internet Safety. Starting in 3rd grade we use Typing Club and Google Classroom to enhance students learning.
Music
The music program at MQHR offers students a musical experience based on the National Standard of Music. This year, students often start or end class with a special school-themed song that we learn as a community. The elements of music are being taught through a new classroom interactive technology package called “Groovy Music.” Fourth grade students learn recorder techniques as a pre-band preparatory / instrumental skill. Middle school students learn music history, musical theater, opera, jazz and Broadway musicals. We are currently participating in School Jam, which is sponsored by Music Educator’s National Conference. In addition, the music program sponsors the Christmas program and middle school spring musical annually.Physical Education
The physical education program allows the students to be as active as they can be! The students in 4th—8th grade participate in fitness testing twice a year. The 3 yr. olds - 4th grade work on basic skills and locomotors as well as working with others. The 5th—8th grade students’ emphasis is on working to improve and master their skills while working with the fitness components through team sports and lifetime activities. This program is all about getting fit and staying healthy!
Elementary Spanish
Students in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades attend Spanish classes two days per week for 45 minutes. Third and Fourth grade students have an additional class of Spanish for a total of 3 days per week. Children learn the language through themes and storytelling, which helps build their literacy and conversational skills, and all lessons are focused on expanding students' knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world, as well as our own local community.
Reading
Reading Support services are for those learners who demonstrate difficulty in reading, may not be reading on grade level and who need extra support to develop their reading skills so they can function effectively in the regular classroom. The Reading Support Teacher works closely with the classroom teacher to ensure progress in the essential components of reading including; phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, comprehension, fluency and accuracy.
Speech
ALL students are cherished at MQHR and our Speech/Language program is one way our children are supported and nourished. Our licensed & certified Speech/Language Pathologist provides tailored therapy to selected students in speech sound production, receptive and expressive language, pragmatics, social skills, voice, stuttering, and phonemic awareness. All preschool and primary students have their hearing screened every fall. In the spring, the entire student body enjoys "Everybody Counts", a disabilities awareness program. Don't be surprised if you see some younger students using sign language at Mass!