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“Alexa’s public display of large-scale portraits shares the message of personal identity, culture and vision. It is an e ort to identify and diminish stereotypes,”said Carolyn Robb, art teacher. “By taking photos of her peers she shares their unique qualities and relays the depth of their character to the entire school and community.”
MIMS ELEMENTARY
Mims Elementary has launched a new college and university eld trip experience for its second – sixth grade students. The eld trips, which started in 2015-16, provide an opportunity to Mims students to visit and tour ve di erent college campuses before leaving elementary school.
graders visit Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach and the sixth graders visit the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
“Students need to plan with the end in mind,” said Principal, Shari Tressler. “Students know college is a place, but don’t always know what it looks like. It is our job to prepare these students to become successful citizens, and we are ensuring that this happens by supporting them in their educational careers and encouraging them to become future leaders.
We want students to know that there are many options after high school.”
SEA PARK ELEMENTARY
In the fall of 2016, Sea Park Elementary launched its new gardening group called the Grower’s Club sponsored by volunteer and
substitute
teacher, Dawn Maletzke.
The club’s mission is to teach students how to grow food using organic growing methods
and how to incorporate Florida native plants and owers to support the
garden and pollinators. The club’s average attendance at every weekly afterschool meeting is nearly 50 students. At each meeting, the students are divided up into smaller groups to perform tasks like watering the beds, harvesting vegetables, planting seeds, pulling weeds, and tending to plants. The students are involved in the entire process.
“It is more important, more now than ever, to teach students how to grow their own food without using the pesticides that have contributed to the major problems in the lagoon that threaten our way of life locally, said Maletzke. “By promoting Florida native plants and owers, installing rain barrels, and getting the kids involved, we feel like we can turn the tide with their enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge.
Over the course of the years, the second graders visit Eastern Florida State College, the third graders visit Daytona State College in Daytona Beach, and the fourth graders visit Flagler College in St. Augustine. In their last years of school, the fth
Mims Elementary students visit multiple colleges over the course of years at school.
Sea Park Elementary students engage in hands-on learning gardening club.
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