“Clubs”

Our out-of-classroom teaching specialists make available a program of class offerings known as :”clubs” or “enrichment clusters.” The clusters have been designed to permit each student an opportunity to explore an area of particular interest. All students in grades 3, 4, and 5 are offered the enrichment cluster experience. Students select from a list that includes art, science, music, and mathematics based projects and activities that vary among grades and years. The goal for each cluster is to provide each student with an experience that applies learning about a content area of the student’s choosing to real life, culminating in a project. Current clusters include guitar instruction, learning about tropical fish, ‘finding’ your own singing voice, and the design of paper airplanes. Past projects have included creating a field guide for bird watching, making scarves for senior citizens, producing a cookbook of Egyptian dishes, performances and building our Library’s spectacular fish tank. Students rank three enrichment cluster preferences, but may consult with the teachers to better understand their options. Enrichment clusters, also known as “clubs”, are scheduled twice a year, for sixteen weeks at a time. Schedule: Fifth graders, 1st period Friday; third graders, 1st period Thursday; fourth graders, 1st period Wednesday.