Here comes summer

This was the last week of the 2015-2016 school year for the students of The Experiential School of Tampa Bay, and it was a busy one! We believe that it is important to keep the learning momentum going, celebrate the year and give the children closure, so the activities of the last weeks have done all of these!

The Junior Kindergartners shared representations of their learning from their Ocean project with their parents at their culmination event. The representations ranged from dioramas that illustrated life in the layers of the ocean to paper maché and plastic bag and tape models to paintings, books, and clay sculptures, all representing the wide variety of aspects of the projects that were of most interest or meaningful to each child. The display was impressive, but not as much as the children’s oral presentations that went with them. Parents circulated through the classroom, learning from the children as they went!

Wednesday was a day of celebrating the great year we all have had with a variety of activities related to the sea, water and more.

In Alpha, the boys and girls enjoyed decorating beach towels, painting treasure boxes, hunting for treasure in the sand,”fishing” in the water table and pseudo-seaweed and eating the “ocean”!

Of course, it wouldn’t be a full celebration without fun in our outdoor classroom. The water blob was the greatest source of excitement and fun but the bubbles and waterworks ran a close second! It was an awesome morning to celebrate a great year!

See more from the week in Betty's Blog!