iGNITE

Ignite funded programs for 2021-2022

Kindergarten

*High Touch, High Tech booked for October 25th and 26^th

*Mad Cap Puppets booked with 1st grade for May 13^th

1st Grade

*Animal Inventor Show booked for October 27^th

*Abraham Lincoln show on hold for February 17th

*Puppet show with Kindergarten booked for May 13th

2nd Grade

*Creative Dramatics- Spring

*The Grove Field trip

*Virtual Northwestern play

3rd Grade

*The Grove field trip set for May

*High Touch, High Tech event Newton (October 6 & 7)

*High Touch Tech event Magnet Makers (November 4 & 6)

*Lewis and Clark and City of Immigrants travelling trunks

4th Grade

*Mindfulness Sept 14^th, 21^st, 28^th and Oct 5^th and then again April 26^th and 27th.

Arts in the Evening

Arts in the Evening occurs once or twice each school year. A performer or production is showcased for members of our community at Central School, usually in the auditorium or the gymnasium. All tickets are funded by iGNITE.

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Art Awareness

Welcome to Central School’s Art Awareness program! The Art Awareness committee works to bring exciting extra-curricular art activities to Central School each year. This program is sponsored by the PTA and led by both parents and Ms. Berngard.

The 2019 Art Awareness project will be held Nov. 11th – 15th and will focus on three-dimensional self-portraits of each amazing Central student. Please save these dates so you can volunteer to help the children create their personal masterpieces. More details, with exact times and dates for each grade and class, will be posted in the fall.

Garden/Outdoor Classroom

The Central Elementary School Garden is over 20 years old! The garden is a wonderful school-wide resource, utilized by our Outdoor Classroom teacher who provides hands-on, curriculum-based lessons for all grades. Many of our faculty incorporate the garden into their teaching throughout the year, and children can enjoy the peacefulness of the garden during recess and after school.

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iGNITE

Donate to iGNITE

Support programs for your children through iGNITE.

Your donations to the Central PTA iGNITE fund are the primary sources of revenue to provide these opportunities to our children. The suggested donation amount is $125 per student, but ANY contribution is welcome and appreciated. All monies raised by Central School families are used only for Central School programs. All donations are tax deductible. Thank you!

To donate online, please log onto AtoZ Connect, go to the upper left hand menu and select “Store”, click “Products”, choose “Donations”.

IGNITE programs

The Central School PTA funds enrichment programs with our iGNITE contributions and PTA Membership dues. The PTA Enrichment Coordinators work closely with the grade level teachers to develop a list of programs that directly enhance the curriculum and classroom experience for our kids.

iGNITE funded activities include:

Enriching field trips to museums, nature centers and cultural organizations:

Botanic Gardens
Wilmette Historical Museum
The Grove
Lake Forest Open Lands
Emily Oaks Center
Chicago Architectural Tour

In-school programs which take place in our individual grade level classrooms, Learning Commons, Auditorium, Library, in addition to our ever-evolving and newly redesigned Outdoor Garden.

Mad Science – Magnets and Lights/Color/Action
Mobile Planetarium
Outdoor Garden programs with expert Garden Educator, Amanda Nugent. (iGNITE sessions include curriculum enhancement for our studies in Ecosystems, Land and Water, Harvesting, Insects, Prairie Plant Adaptations, Comparative Life Cycle, Soil Exploration and much more.)
Creative Dramatics – Focus on learning Story Theater and creative thinking
Award winning author visits
Abraham Lincoln Presentation
American Eagle Production -an educational theater production focusing on literature, history and geography
Scientist in Residence programs – Sound, Matter and Light
Illustrated Theater – Focus on a theater technique called Transformation Mime