KEEP classes support academic achievement through cross-curricular activities and teaching techniques that support the kinetic learner. Kids Excel classes translate into increased self-confidence in the classroom, positive risk taking, and the discipline to achieve difficult goals. Children increase their ability to concentrate, focus and attend to a task. They learn that with hard work, they can achieve difficult goals.
Kids Excel’s artists work with a curriculum theme throughout the year, integrating academic learning into the KEEP classroom and supporting our classroom teachers in their goal to educate, empower, and inspire their students. Children learn to explore academic concepts like Math, Science, and Reading, with physical movement and space, thereby exploring new and creative ways to learn. Using the arts, Kids Excel hopes to inspire children to approach these academic subjects with renewed enthusiasm. Music education is embedded in the our curriculum, and children learn about rhythm, tempo, music notation, and music genre.
2009–2010 curriculum theme is Literature and focuses on the 4th grade Reading curriculum set by the EPISD. Children will explore plot, inference, motive, charactors, genre, and other reading vocabulary with their bodies, giving them new and creative ways to integrate and understand. Our End-of-the-Year Event will be about Reading, and will incorporate many of the literary concepts explored throughout the year.
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