CES Learns

Friday was an amazing day at Coleytown. We had our first CES Learns event!

What is CES Learns?

CES Learns is based upon our district professional development day called Westport Learns. At Westport Learns, teachers offer different workshops to their peers on a variety of topics in education. Each teacher gets to choose what workshops he/she wants to attend that day. I have attended workshops on many different topics, such as mindfulness in the classroom, engineering practices in NGSS units of study, and purposeful play in the primary grades. We successfully copied this model for our first ever CES Learns!

The Coleytown community offered 19 different workshops for our students. Students voted on their top three choices and were guaranteed one of these three. The following workshops were presented:

For grades K, 1 and 2: Origami, Irish Step Dancing, Fundamentals of Basketball, Math Adventures, Makerspace, Engineering Challenge, Winter Mural, Building Fun, Singing Silly Songs, and First Aid Basics.

For grades 3, 4, and 5: Drawing Cartoons, Cooperative Games, Scrapbooking, Making Collages, Learning about Composers, Yoga, Reader’s Theater, Juggling, and Math Adventures.

Students were so excited to transition to their classes and work with students and teachers from other grades. Smiles and laughter filled the building, and at the end, multiple students asked me when we would be having our next CES Learns. Please be sure to ask your child about this special day!

Check out some photos from the day:

Math Adventures

Reader's Theater

Creating a winter mural

Makerspace creations

Basketball

Origami

Building fun

Yoga

Cartooning

Creating scrapbooks

Making collages

Engineering-will the Big, Bad Wolf blow the house down?

First Aid

Juggling

Irish Step Dancing

Final mural