Changes for K-4 include the suggestion that five- and six-year-olds in Grade 1 should be familiar with the artwork of Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas. While you’re preparing yourself for dinner conversations with your kids, make sure you have some knowledge of names, dates, places and influences of France’s “Belle Epoque” lest your Grade 1 offspring write you off as an unenlightened philistine. You may have travelled to Paris or Santa Fe New Mexico and seen many of the original works of art mentioned in Alberta’s new curriculum, but it would be wise to bone up on the age of Impressionism and Post Impressionism lest you be left out of the conversation.