Visual, Performing, and Theater Arts
“God Created…”
At Lake Arrowhead Christian School, we love how God fashioned us as creative beings. We encourage creative expression through our classes in art and music as well as in our regular curriculum from Kindergarten through 12th grade.
ART
We incorporate our Meet the Masters program in our elementary art program, alongside art activities that integrate into the regular curriculum. Through Meet the Masters, elementary art students learn about various artists including Hokusai, Kahlo, Michaelangelo, Cezanne, and Homer. After learning about each artist, students are given grade-appropriate opportunities using a variety of mediums to mirror their art through students’ own creative expression.
In our secondary art program, we offer formal art classes which introduce water colors, charcoal drawings, collage art, and many other mediums. Our Foundations of Art class is a one year UC-approved elective course that is offered to all high school students. Over the course of the year, students use various art processes, techniques and mediums to produce works of art. Additionally, students expand their knowledge of art vocabulary, complete quarterly research assignments, gain greater respect for the works of past and present artists, and demonstrate skills and processes necessary for drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture at their developmental level. As the standards for art enrichment emphasizes learning through inquiry, students examine aspects of the artistic process: idea generation, problem solving, and self-assessment. Instruction is provided by way of lecture, demonstration, active hands-on participation, performance and evaluation. Students have had the opportunity to showcase their work at the annual ACSI Art Festival as well as at local student art exhibits. Students in our art classes also are given the privilege of adding to our school and performance ambiance by creating set designs, posters for various school activities, and other fun projects.
MUSIC
During weekly elementary choir and music classes, students sing and learn various instruments with exposure to basic theories in music. Students in Kindergarten through second grade explore various rhythm instruments. Third through sixth grade students learn the flutophone. Elementary students also participate in three or more annual musical performances. We celebrate our students' talents with performance opportunities through Grandparents Day, Christmas, and spring music programs.
Music is a major component of seventh through twelfth grade student life here at LACS. Junior high music students sing and learn the essentials of guitar or keyboard with additional bass guitar and drum set instruction offered. Students also learn to read from chord charts as well as basic standard note reading. Students with experience playing other instruments are encouraged to play those instruments when the opportunity arises in select songs in our three annual performances. All junior high and high school music students sing and/or play in our Grandparents Day, Christmas, and spring concerts and may additionally be part of teams leading worship in weekly chapels and Bible classes.
Our high school music program is comprised of two courses, offered every other year. Our UC-approved fine arts credit course includes elements of music theory, composition, history and performance, with an emphasis on worship music. Students learn to read music in standard notation for their instrument. They also apply their notation skills to musical compositions written both by hand and also on internet-based composition software. History of music is explored with special emphasis on church history through the present. Our elective course, offered every other year, has elements of the fine arts course but with less rigor, and focuses on continuing and expanding the skills learned in junior high.
Additional artistic expressions are encouraged within the regular curriculum classes as well. Film as art is studied in a unit in the eleventh grade, and classes may offer student project options to create slide shows, digital narratives, and video reproductions of literature or other concepts learned in class.
Bringing students' creative gifts and talents to the world is an area to be celebrated, and we strive to cultivate this form of praise in every student.
THEATER ARTS
Theater Arts is a component of student life at Lake Arrowhead Christian School and exists to magnify Christ through stage and story. We seek this by cultivating young artists of character and imagination who are bent on producing theatre that captures truth and invokes wonder for audiences of all ages.
Our comprehensive after-school theatre arts program is dedicated to offering quality theatre training for LACS students in grades 4-12. Students will have the opportunity to learn the basics of theatre arts and godly character while working toward dramatic productions, staged twice yearly for the LACS and Lake Arrowhead community. Past productions have included The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; Little Women; It’s a Wonderful Life; The Café; Alice in Wonderland and others.
We also offer two elective theatre courses each year, focusing on developing performance skills (improvisation and acting), but also introducing students to directing, producing, and technical design.
“I will sing a new song to you, my God!” -Psalm 149:9
At Lake Arrowhead Christian School, we love how God fashioned us as creative beings. We encourage creative expression through our classes in art and music as well as in our regular curriculum from Kindergarten through 12th grade.
ART
We incorporate our Meet the Masters program in our elementary art program, alongside art activities that integrate into the regular curriculum. Through Meet the Masters, elementary art students learn about various artists including Hokusai, Kahlo, Michaelangelo, Cezanne, and Homer. After learning about each artist, students are given grade-appropriate opportunities using a variety of mediums to mirror their art through students’ own creative expression.
In our secondary art program, we offer formal art classes which introduce water colors, charcoal drawings, collage art, and many other mediums. Our Foundations of Art class is a one year UC-approved elective course that is offered to all high school students. Over the course of the year, students use various art processes, techniques and mediums to produce works of art. Additionally, students expand their knowledge of art vocabulary, complete quarterly research assignments, gain greater respect for the works of past and present artists, and demonstrate skills and processes necessary for drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture at their developmental level. As the standards for art enrichment emphasizes learning through inquiry, students examine aspects of the artistic process: idea generation, problem solving, and self-assessment. Instruction is provided by way of lecture, demonstration, active hands-on participation, performance and evaluation. Students have had the opportunity to showcase their work at the annual ACSI Art Festival as well as at local student art exhibits. Students in our art classes also are given the privilege of adding to our school and performance ambiance by creating set designs, posters for various school activities, and other fun projects.
MUSIC
During weekly elementary choir and music classes, students sing and learn various instruments with exposure to basic theories in music. Students in Kindergarten through second grade explore various rhythm instruments. Third through sixth grade students learn the flutophone. Elementary students also participate in three or more annual musical performances. We celebrate our students' talents with performance opportunities through Grandparents Day, Christmas, and spring music programs.
Music is a major component of seventh through twelfth grade student life here at LACS. Junior high music students sing and learn the essentials of guitar or keyboard with additional bass guitar and drum set instruction offered. Students also learn to read from chord charts as well as basic standard note reading. Students with experience playing other instruments are encouraged to play those instruments when the opportunity arises in select songs in our three annual performances. All junior high and high school music students sing and/or play in our Grandparents Day, Christmas, and spring concerts and may additionally be part of teams leading worship in weekly chapels and Bible classes.
Our high school music program is comprised of two courses, offered every other year. Our UC-approved fine arts credit course includes elements of music theory, composition, history and performance, with an emphasis on worship music. Students learn to read music in standard notation for their instrument. They also apply their notation skills to musical compositions written both by hand and also on internet-based composition software. History of music is explored with special emphasis on church history through the present. Our elective course, offered every other year, has elements of the fine arts course but with less rigor, and focuses on continuing and expanding the skills learned in junior high.
Additional artistic expressions are encouraged within the regular curriculum classes as well. Film as art is studied in a unit in the eleventh grade, and classes may offer student project options to create slide shows, digital narratives, and video reproductions of literature or other concepts learned in class.
Bringing students' creative gifts and talents to the world is an area to be celebrated, and we strive to cultivate this form of praise in every student.
THEATER ARTS
Theater Arts is a component of student life at Lake Arrowhead Christian School and exists to magnify Christ through stage and story. We seek this by cultivating young artists of character and imagination who are bent on producing theatre that captures truth and invokes wonder for audiences of all ages.
Our comprehensive after-school theatre arts program is dedicated to offering quality theatre training for LACS students in grades 4-12. Students will have the opportunity to learn the basics of theatre arts and godly character while working toward dramatic productions, staged twice yearly for the LACS and Lake Arrowhead community. Past productions have included The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; Little Women; It’s a Wonderful Life; The Café; Alice in Wonderland and others.
We also offer two elective theatre courses each year, focusing on developing performance skills (improvisation and acting), but also introducing students to directing, producing, and technical design.
“I will sing a new song to you, my God!” -Psalm 149:9