The Arts

From music appreciation to art history, this subject will please your child and heighten their awareness and sensitivity to some of the greatest works ever created by man. This program is comprehensive and is broken into logical categories to help the child understand the progressive nature of the arts and artists through time. Here is a brief description of the types of materials that are presented in this subject area.

Art History

The art history curriculum explores the vibrant history of art chronologically, the periods and styles of art historically, and the individual artists, their life and work. The scope of the art curriculum is diverse and includes period artifacts, painting, sculpture, jewelry, weaving, and architecture.

Levels A and B include one art lesson per week focused on a more general approach to art rather than a chronological approach. It offers the student exposure to individual artists and their work and lets them explore different styles, periods, and types of art.

The Level C curriculum is the most comprehensive art program. Through this curriculum, the student gains a broad perspective of what constitutes art. The student will learn to differentiate between different periods and styles of art, to identify individual artists, their work and their particular style, and to understand the history and character of a style. The student also gains valuable insight into the timeline of art and the artists through the ages because the curriculum flows chronologically.

Each week, two lessons of art history are presented. One lesson presents art history in a chronological format from ancient cave art to contemporary art. The second lesson offers the student a focused study of an individual artist. The Level C curriculum often employs books to complement the week's art lesson. For example, during the week that Renoir is studied, the student also reads a book called "What is Impressionism?"

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Music

Time2Learn Academy's music curriculum is a clear, concise, highly dynamic, and extensively illustrated overview of a daunting subject, the history of the world's music. Revolutionary in its instructional format, the music curriculum allows every student of any age to enjoy music, learn about the history of music, study the different periods and styles of music, and learn about composer's lives.

Time2Learn's music curriculum is revolutionary for its exceptional approach to teaching young (or older) students music, and its efforts to include both male and female composers in its overview of world music history.

Levels B and C curriculum provide an accessible introduction to music history, concentrating on individual composers and the historical periods to which they belong. Level A does not present any music books or composer books.

Students can explore music history, composer's lives and their works, the evolution of musical styles, all in a compact chronological context. The earliest known available music dating from 1100 up through contemporary music is explored. Gregorian chants, troubadour music, Western music, Eastern music, African music, Native American music, folk songs, show tunes, opera, jazz, and contemporary music, are all imbedded in highly informative and convenient weekly lessons.

The music is excellent, relying on orchestral recordings, and provides the student with an exemplary listening environment. In limited instances, MIDI sound files are used because orchestral sound tracks are not available.

The weekly lessons are chronologically appropriate and provide the student with a mental timeline of the development of music. Each week, a new lesson adds a new layer to the music history studied thus far.

In both Level B and C, a music book and a composer book are included. The music book provides the student with 5-12 sound clips of the composer's most important works. The music book also provides pertinent illustrations to view while listening to the sound clips. A weekly adjoining composer book is rich in details about the composer's life, and provides actual historical graphics of the composer, his family, and career highlights.

The multi-layer and multidimensional approach to music history is easy to follow, highly informative, visually stimulating, and aurally instructional.

We at Time2Learn Academy believe that the music curriculum is an incredible gift to every student of every age. The scholarship and detail highlighting this curriculum is unsurpassed by any curriculum available for children. The opportunity to study the history of music through dynamic sensory (both auditory and visual) stimulation is revolutionary. The students are enthralled with the images, the sounds, and the information.

Logically organized, beautifully produced with the finest sound availability, and historically accurate in including both men and women in its overview, the music curriculum is an outstanding and incomparable introduction to the history of the world's music.

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