Florence Roche
Elementary Garden
(All grades):
Volunteers, students and staff, in coordination with Groton Local,
are creating gardens that will be used by teachers and students
to enhance the curriculum across multiple disciplines – science,
food & nutrition, math, language arts, history, social studies
and art.
Tools for Achievement:
Interactive Whiteboards
Swallow Union & Florence Roche –
(All grades):
SMART board interactive whiteboards allow teachers added
flexibility in the classroom by embedding multi-media into existing
lesson plans, actively engaging students and leading to greater
student success.
“A World of Stories”
Swallow Union (Grades 3-4):
A professional storyteller presented fun and imaginative stories
to further cultivate students’ love of reading and encourage
independent reading.
Engineering
is Elementary,
Marvelous Machines - Florence Roche
& Swallow Union, 4th grade
Through lessons integrating science, design
and technology, fourth graders gained a
deeper understanding of engineering
concepts and created their own simple machines. The grant funded
curriculum materials for this innovative Boston Museum
of Science program.
Music
and Poetry Collaborative
Florence Roche and Swallow Union,
(3rd Grade)
Workshops engaged students in the creation of poetry through musical
expression.
Swallow Union
Science Lab
Funded materials for a living, working science lab where students
create and execute “care plans” for plants and animals. |
