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July 19,2007
Summer Academy creates fun in the classroom
For some students, summer break is a chance
to get outdoors and enjoy the sunshine.
' For others, it means an opportunity to stay in
the classroom and focus on even more learning.
Two hundred students signed up for this year’s
summer academy at Warm Springs Elementary
and Principal Dawn Smith said an average of
about 140 attend every day.
Classes spend time learning about a variety
of entertaining subjects and still incorporate ba
sic subjects like math, writing and science.
For instance, in David Gregg’s classroom, stu
dents that will in fitst grade next fall are learning
about anything involving discovery.
“We’re just learning how to look at stuff,”
Gregg said.' “We’ve, looked at anything we can
look at and try to discover.” ’; .
At the end of the session, students will be
putting together their own discovery book.
Other classes are exploring artistic mediums,
the rainforest, different plants, or geographic lo
cations like Mexico or Hawaii.
In Esther Kalama-Culpus’ classroom, students
are studying everything involving rocks.
From pet rocks to the ways in which rocks are
formed, the students are using math, science, and
even writing by creating stories about rocks.
The students, who will enter second grade this
fall, have also made clay beads and have a sand
box in their room.
it wasn’t until Kalama-Culpus showed, them a
bottle with water and silt that they started to un
derstand the process, she said.
“That kind of clicked for them,” she said.
“Nbw it’s going pretty good.”
Kevin Rodin is teaching a group of students
how to use Power Point as well as GPS tracking,
compasses, and other aspects of computers.
Their class will later give power point presen
tations to Vicki Moore’s class.
In return, Moore’s class*. who is studying
Mexico, will throw a. fiesta for the class Rodin
is teaching.
Moore said their classroom is also preparing
to create a news broadcast. ,
; Summer Academy will end on July 27. t
Students in Vicki Moore’s class are learning about Mexico.
Some students learned how
to use microscopes (above),
while another class learned
about the human body by
creating paper models
complete with internal organs
(shown below).
Students worked to color designs after painting clay
turtles that they sculpted.
Students in Esther Kalama-Culpus’ class created clay
beads and also painted pet rocks.
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Sara Ohman’s class demonstrated the hula they learned while studying Hawaii.
Power point presentations are part of the
focus of Kevin Rodin’s class.
Students in David Gregg’s class learned about dust mites and studied the dust
under their classroom’s carpet.
Students in Angie David’s class, which featured both second
and first graders, traced photos of the proboscis monkey.
Children in one class cultivated a variety
of plants and plan to put a book together
at the end of the session.
Photos and text by Leslie Mitts
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