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4th Grade – iGNITE Funded Enrichment Programs

2018 – 2019

  • SCARCE Watershed
  • High Touch High Tech Magnets
  • North Shore Theater
  • Lake Forest Open Lands – Ecosystems
  • Mindfulness with Full Bloomed Lotus
  • Innovation Workshop
  • Visiting Authors
  • Outdoor Classroom

3rd Grade – iGNITE Funded Enrichment Programs

2018 – 2019

  • Botanic Gardens
  • Rives Collins – Storyteller
  • Traveling Trunks
  • Immigration Story with Amy Lowe
  • Moon Flight Assembly
  • High Touch High Tech
  • Creative Dramatics
  • Visiting Authors
  • Outdoor Classroom

2nd Grade – iGNITE Funded Enrichment Programs

2018 – 2019

  • The Grove
  • North Shore Theater
  • Mad Science – Lights, Color, Action
  • Wilmette Historical Museum
  • Creative Dramatics
  • Wilmette Violin Store
  • Iditarod Presentation
  • Visiting Authors
  • Outdoor Classroom

Kindergarten iGNITE Funded Enrichment Programs

 2018 – 2019

  • Lucky Trikes Storytime
  • The Then & Now Trunk
  • Mad Science – Magnificent Magnets
  • High Tech High Touch Dig it Workshop
  • MadCap Puppet Theater
  • Visiting Authors
  • Outdoor Classroom

 

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

Central School PTA is responsible for raising the funds necessary to support our students’ participation in exciting, multi-sensory experiences that enhance curriculum-based learning. Parent contributions to Central PTA’s iGNITE will continue to be used exclusively for Central School and its students and staff.

Central School PTA asks each family to make a single, upfront donation each year that covers their child’s portion of these valuable programs. We’ve crunched the budget numbers, and these great programs cost at least $150 per student per year (approximately 80 cents per school day).

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Click on iGNITE Funded Programs 2018-19 View a list of the experiences and special programs iGNITE provides to our children during all five years that they attend Central School.

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

Click on iGNITE Funded Programs 2016-17 for the detailed listing of iGNITE funded programs from last year.

 

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