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Summer learning Greenfield students keep their creative juices flowing with studies of water

Posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathleen McKiernan, The Recorder
Date: 8/19/15
Link: Complete Article

The Recorder

GREENFIELD – As students and teachers cross the second-floor landing at the Federal Street School this year, they will see a new 22-foot-by-4-foot mural depicting pond life.

The painting, located beside the main office, is a collaboration of students from kindergarten to Grade 3 who participated in the summer school program, “Water, Water, Water Everywhere.”

“It was fun. I painted part of the blue sky, and ants using my thumb,” said Thaddeus Taggart, 6, who will enter the first grade at Federal Street.

For four weeks this summer from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Mondays through Thursdays the students applied what they learned in the school year to real life projects. Taggart was one of 40 to 50 students who spent the summer learning about water, its properties and uses as part of the after-school and summer program run by the Collaborative for Educational Services at the elementary school.

Continue reading at The Recorder.

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Filed Under: CES Stories Tagged With: Greenfield Public Schools, Summer Learning

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