Enrichment
Why Enrichment?
Offering art, music and drama classes in addition to the required academic ones offers a well rounded education. In addition, a study by the Imagination Project at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies shows that time spent singing, dancing and experimenting with art can drive up test scores. Data indicates that students involved in the arts do better in school than those that aren’t involved. Enrichment classes also help to reduce class size by sending half of a classroom to enrichment at a time. Last year we were able to reduce classroom size 4x/week in the upper grades and 1x/week in the primary grades, where class size is already much lower.
Grade Level Highlights:
Kindergarten
- Heirloom Quilt
- 100 Day Celebration
- Incubation of Chicks
First Grade
- Musical Instrument Day
- Community Service Poster
Second Grade
- Bat Report
- Invention Convention
- Clock Project
- Biographical Presentation
- Family Memory Project
Third Grade
- Indian Research Project
- Family Timeline
- Book Reports
- Biography Presentation
Fourth Grade
- California State History
- Sacramento Trip
- Science Fair Project
Fifth Grade
- American History
- Historical Musicals (3)
- Outdoor Education Trip
- Class Beach Day
- Graduation/Year Book
