Specials Team 2016-2017
o Audrey Hollmann
o [email protected]
o Carolyn Mednez
o Deyci Garza
Health Fitness
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Our Mission: In the area of Health Fitness and Health students 
arrive with a diverse level of skills and concepts. It is our
mission to provide a safe, supportive environment where
education focuses on adding value to each student through:
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the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and positive health
fitness attitudes
Areas of Focus
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Relationships and Team Participation
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Locomotor Movement
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Spatial and Body Awareness
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Quality of Movements
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the development of each individual’s unique gifts and
talents
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Conditioning
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the encouragement of self-confidence, creativity,
mutual respect, self-discipline, and honesty
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Balance
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Rhythms
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the awareness of choices for a healthy life.
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Jump Rope Skills
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Rolling
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Dribbling
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Striking/Throwing/Catching
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Various Games/Sports
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Outdoor Recreational Activities
Our success is leading students to productive, satisfying lives
and positive participation in the area of life long health and
fitness.
Music
o Michelle Yarborough
o [email protected]
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Our Mission: The performing and visual arts provide an
important means of communication where thoughts,
creativity, and expression can be directed to ennoble, uplift,
inspire, and build. As educators, we strive to help students
develop aesthetically, academically, and culturally.
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Areas of Focus
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Rhythm
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Melody
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Form
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Harmony
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Style and Performance Practice
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Terminology and Vocabulary
Children acquire knowledge about music through the process of
experiencing music over time through:
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Singing
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Playing Instruments
 technical proficiencies
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Movement
 compositional principles
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Conducting
 creative processes
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Listening
 variety of other important skills in the arts that support all
areas of academic development
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Audiation
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Memory
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Reading
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Writing
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Creating (improvisation and composition
Our goal is to teach our students:
Art
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Our Mission: The performing and visual arts provide an
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important means of communication where thoughts,
creativity, and expression can be directed to ennoble, uplift,
inspire, and build. As educators, we strive to help students
develop aesthetically, academically, and culturally.
Our goal is to teach our students:
 technical proficiencies
 compositional principles
 creative processes
 variety of other important skills in the arts that support all
areas of academic development
o Natalie Waggenspack
o [email protected]
Areas of Focus
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Elements and Principles of Art
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Multicultural Art
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Creative Expression
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Historical and Cultural Heritage
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Identify Main Ideas Expressed in Art
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Create Original Artwork with a Variety of Media:
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Paint
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Clay
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Collage
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Drawing
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3D Assemblage