Riverway holds summer learning program

 

Riverway Learning Community offered a summer program to students entering kindergarten through fourth grade. The eight-week program consisted of STEM lessons, a writer’s workshop, environmental education and weekly field trips to Whitewater State Park.

Following Riverway’s ethos, older students helped younger students throughout the program in activities such as building rafts, using iPads for stop-motion film, designing air rockets and exploring outdoors. All students worked together on a variety of projects that focused on learning in a natural, holistic manner.

One of the more exciting challenges the students faced was learning about about buoyancy. This was done by first discussing the properties required for buoyancy, then by experimenting with different objects’ buoyancy, and finally ...more