Fine Arts
Liberty Chorus and Musical Theater, or LCMT, is an extracurricular program for boys and girls in 4th through 6th grades. Members of LCMT perform for the Liberty community and represent Liberty at District Festivals and performances. Students learn singing technique and basic theater skills, while teachers prepare several choral selections from a variety of styles. Examples include patriotic, folk, spirituals, jazz, and classical. Some selections are performed with choreography or movement, others may be accompanied by students on the instruments. Liberty also auditions, rehearses, and performs a Broadway Junior musical.
Concerts are offered twice a year with other outside the classroom activities. These opportunities in class and outside of class are meant to create fun, rewarding, and memorable experiences for the students as they progress through their exciting musical journey.
Strings are available to students in 4th through 6th grade. Classes are structured according to the students' ability and experience in their grade level. Strings class gives these students the opportunity to play the Violin, Viola, Cello or Bass. In the beginning, the students will learn the basics of how to play an instrument, then will gradually add note reading skills as they progress, and eventually learn to express their own advanced musicality through their instrument.
Students in grades 4th through 6th have the option of playing a band instrument. Classes meet two days a week and every other Friday during special area time. The instruments students can learn are the flute, clarinet, trumpet, saxophone or percussion. Students perform at two evening concerts and at school assemblies during the school year in addition to special district events. Advanced students can perform at the Fine Arts Festival, 6th grade High School Football Night and Elementary Honor Band.
PVSchools has adopted Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music as the digital resource. The Quaver Music K-6 curriculum presents music concepts through entertaining videos, engaging music activities, and interactive whiteboard games. Quaver is a tool to be used by the instructor to facilitate learning for students in grades 2-6.
In music class students will experience music from a variety of sources and musical styles, and many cultures. To create deeper understanding and develop music skills, Liberty will further apply music concepts to various speech, song, movement, listening, and instrument activities.
What are children learning when they are making music?
- Identify, analyze, and create patterns.
- Collaborate and problem solve in small groups.
- Increase listening and memory skills, improve large and small motor skills, and observe a director’s cues.
- Critique their own music and the compositions of others.
- Express their feelings and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
- Strive for excellence and gain self confidence through classroom and public performance.
What are children learning when they make art?
- Organizing, ordering and exploring materials and techniques.
- Creating and inventing.
- Learning to observe carefully.
- Increasing perceptual awareness.
- Solving problems, making choices and decisions.
- Developing ability to self direct.
- Increasing cognition-the ability to think, understand, make connections and figure things out.
- Developing confidence and self esteem.