Activities
The Program organized the month into weekly themes
with the first week of the month focused on Music, the second on STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math), the third week on History, and the final
week on art.
In Musical Adventures this session, the volunteer
introduced students to the recorder and taught them notes, many of the students
learned to play “Merrily We Row Along” on the recorder. Additionally, she introduced the students to
piano basics. The volunteer seems to
thoroughly enjoy working with the children, she indicated she was sad that the
program was over for the summer.
In Adventures in STEM staff focused on engineering
for the first two sessions, with students learning about forces such as
tension, compression, torque and shear.
The students used what they learned to build bridges in the first
session and structures in the second. In
the third STEM class the students learned the Scientific Method and applied it
to one experiment and then created their own experiment following the method.
In Adventures in History, the students have learned
about early explorers and how and why they explored. As part of the early explorers’ activities
they learned about Timelines and created their own and learned about statues
and monuments explorers left behind and after seeing images of monuments they
created each used clay to build their own.
In Adventures in Art, the students have studied
calligraphy and practiced a variety of techniques, learned about the new-again
phenomena of rock art/found art and created their own art work to display,
explored three-dimensional art and created their own works of art.
