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Spalding Drive Charter Elementary
Students emerge from their virtual cocoon
by Michael Jacobs
Technology specialist Alan David (in green) explains to visiting educators how the virtual field trip hardware works May 8. (click for larger version) May 15, 2009
A butterfly puppet, like a butterfly itself, is never born; it must emerge by stages.
So it was that first-graders at Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School learned a dual lesson about the life cycle of butterflies and the creation of marionettes on a field trip to the Center for Puppetry Arts in Midtown on May 8. An expert at the center, Patty Petrey Dees, spent 50 minutes reviewing the science of egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly and teaching the art of stick, string, construction paper, puppet to reinforce and enhance what the children were learning in their classrooms.
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A little imagination
Pre-kindergartners from Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School in Sandy Springs enjoy a day at the Imagine That! Children’s Museum downtown last month. The children got to take the field trip, despite budget cuts, thanks to the ingenuity of the faculty and staff at Spalding Drive.
