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In Our Classroom - Enrichment Programs

Community service, vocational studies, introduction to foreign languages, performing arts, and museum docent visits are just some of the enrichments we are planning to compliment our curriculum. Additional enrichment programs are described below.

Field Trips

At Discovery, student learning reaches beyond the classroom. Teachers team to select field trips and assemblies that are an extension of the curriculum. Parents support field trips by providing input and helping with planning and implementation.

Junior Achievement

A series of engaging themes helps students (K-8) apply basic economic concepts to their life experiences. Each theme builds on the previous, stressing the relationship between school and future success. Students begin to see their place in the world as individuals, workers and consumers.

The program brings volunteers to the classroom for sharing, making economic concepts relevant. Students learn personal skills and interests, career options, and personal family financial management. The Middle Grades Program includes the principal characteristics of the U.S. economic system.
More info: Junior Achievement Brochure.

Junior Master Gardener Program

This program engages children in experiences that promote a love of gardening, develop an appreciation for the environment, and cultivate the mind. This program encourages youth to be of service to others through service learning and leadership development projects and rewards them with certification.
More info: www.jmgkids.us.

Destination ImagiNation

This international organization for kindergarten through college teaches life skills and expands imagination through team-based creative problem solving. The curriculum draws on creative problem solving strategies and multiple intelligences of students to use what they learn in new and creative ways. More info: www.destinationimagination.org.