Opportunities+for+Advanced+Learners

There are several chances for advanced learners to go further over the course of our Farms and Food study.

Apple Orchard projects
After the field trip to the apple orchard, when the class is broken up into groups to do projects about their experiences at the orchard, one group works on a book about the orchard field trip. Because this is beginning of first grade (Sept-Oct), many students do not yet write very much. The book-writing groups are made up of students from each class who are strong writers and can already write a page or so of text. As a group, they think of the important things that happened on the trip, put them in order, and decide who will write which pages. They then draft, revise, and type their pages and illustrate them.

Spring WIC study group
In the springtime section of the unit on access to food and shelter, the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) study group is a more academically challenging group that the others. It is a chance for more outspoken students and better writers to interview staff at WIC and create informative posters about what they learned and what WIC does.