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FRONTIERS
Enrichment
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Frontiers
has developed its own enrichment curriculum based on a "theme per week."
Each
site will have a different topic weekly -- such as Inventions, Dinosaurs, No Place Like Home, Rain
Forests, Center Stage, Safari, Cowboys & Indians, Space and Good Earth
-- and will do activities that incorporate the three components necessary
for a Frontiers unit - Discovering, Thinking
and Creating.
Each afternoon students will participate in a variety of group activities --arts and crafts projects, science experiments, games, brainstorming - centered on the weekly theme; or they may opt for the unit's Quiet Satellite with its books, puzzles, word finds and searches, and other individual activities. Weekly themes culminate with Fabulous Friday Fun to round out the unit. Activities this past year included learning Australian lingo with Down Under, staging a carnival with Worlds of Fun, making an erupting volcano with Mother Nature, having a luau with Tropical Islands, and performing plays for Folklore--complete with creating costumes and set designs. Holidays provided opportunities for special fun--such as making keepsake Valentines for parents in February, creating a dragon for the Chinese New Year, making gingerbread houses at Christmas and even getting a visit from Santa Claus. Each site will host a special "Open House" for the parents and special guests. This Open House presentation gives the site a unique opportunity to showcase the talents of its students and the enrichment portion of Frontiers. Open Houses for 2008-09 included creating huge castles with Castles, having a "Buckaroo Party" with Cowboys, a Mexican fiesta and talent show with South of the Border, digging for fossils with Dinosaurs, and becoming "pirates" and digging for loot with Treasures. |
"This is a great program; my child enjoys it and he is not just sitting in an aftercare program.
He does productive activities he can learn from that are fun for him.
The staff stay organzied and keep the children in line and safe."
--Andrea Jones (Aaron, K - Richland Elementary)
