The students at Mountain Discovery Charter School continue their core education by participating in music classes. They are encouraged to learn about themselves, their surroundings, their heritage, and their diversities through various music activities.

The Music Program at MDCS serves the entire school community. As children progress from kindergarten to elementary grades, and finally, to middle school, they are able to better understand music through creating, performing, understanding, and responding to the major elements of music as required by the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

While using these strands and requirements as a guide, the students become musically literate with a quality K-8 Music Program that addresses the learning needs of the whole child. Studies in music address the physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and aesthetic development of children. This also allows the students to be successful because the various learning styles and intelligences of each child are addressed.

Students in the elementary grades participate in music classes by playing instruments of various types, singing, movement, composing, reading notation, and most importantly - having fun!

Students in the middle school grades continue their general music education at MDCS. However, beginning in the fifth grade, students are also eligible to participate in Band.

"Active, Lifelong Learners In A Technology Intensive Environment"

Technology Assignments and Study Sheets

At Mountain Discovery Charter School, we strive to support the philosophy of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, while staying true to our philosophy of "Empowering Our Students."  All students in grades K-8 have many opportunities to be involved with and use technology in the classroom as well as in our computer lab.

Fourth and fifth grade students are instructed in keyboarding skills, while the middle school students participate in a more intensive study of technology in preparation for the NC Eight Grade Computer Competency Skills Test.   Lessons and activities in these classes embrace the basic Standards as well as integrate course objectives from other disciplines.