Visual Art

When students of every age go up to the art room on the top floor of the building, they bring their classroom knowledge with them, because art activities, like field trips, flow from the curriculum. Besides teaching the fundamentals of technique in a variety of media, art at Capitol Hill Day School allows students to explore what they are studying in science or social studies through visual and tactile ways. The resulting drawings, paintings, prints, weavings, ceramics, dolls, collages, and wall hangings are displayed all around the building.

Music

In the music room on the School's lower level, children from prekindergarten through eighth grade acquire a feel for both the process and performance of music. They start with rhythms, pitches, movements, and melodies, learn about a world of musical styles, and embark on composition and sound collages, with many activities hearkening back to classroom studies. At all ages, they discover that mastery of skills combined with cooperative group effort leads to polished performances.

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Appreciating Opera at Capitol Hill Day School
Winter Inspires Music and Poetry at Capitol Hill Day School

Drama

Opportunities to perform flow from the children's studies in all grades. For example, kindergarteners' exploration of Africa, its geography, resources, animals, and peoples, leads to plays which the students write and perform, featuring costumes and scenery they made themselves. The fourth graders' history study culminates in Family History Day, in which students prepare and present oral presentations on some aspect of their family's personal history. Highlights of the school year include the sixth grade musical, in which every child plays a part, and the eighth grade Shakespeare study and culminating performance at the Folger Library's Elizabethan Theatre. The spring Music Festival features all classes and encompasses a wide range of musical styles and traditions. In short, performances of all kinds abound at Capitol Hill Day School.

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CHDS Sixth-Graders Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Capitol Hill Day School Sixth Graders Perform “Aladdin”
Eighth Grade Performs A Midsummer Night's Dream