Discovery Days planned at Chesapeake Academy
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| First-graders Ryleigh Hornsmith, Trinity Smith, and Callie Souders use patterning and symmetry to complete rain forest-themed projects related to the February Discovery Day featured book “Stop That Noise” by Paul Geraghty. |
Looking for a creative hands-on experience for your child on a Saturday morning? Chesapeake Academy will host the second of three free “Discovery Days” on Saturday, February 25, as a means to bring early childhood and elementary school families in the community together with enriching age-appropriate activities centered on popular children’s literature or a specific theme.
February’s Discovery Day has a “caring for the environment” theme and is focused on the book “Stop That Noise” by Paul Geraghty. Activities geared for students ages 4 to 7 will include teacher-based art, science, literature, music and movement activities centered on the ecological tale’s rockin’ rain forest setting.
In Stop That Noise, the lead character, a nocturnal mouse who is trying to sleep amidst the often harsh sounds of the rain forest fauna, finds that when the noise stops, trouble begins. Trouble arrives in the form of a thunderous bulldozer whose operator is tasked with disturbing the rain forest.
While development at the expense of natural resources is the book’s overall adult theme, students will be guided to a much more local understanding of how to care for the environment with child-led retellings of the story through the creation of sculpture and poetry, theatrical reenactments, mathematical games relating to symmetry, sizing and sequencing, cooperation games, as well as a miniature cooking class.
Discovery Days are sponsored by the Early Childhood and Lower School teachers at Chesapeake Academy and are open and free to all families in our community. For additional information or to reserve a space for your child to attend the Discovery Day event on Saturday, February 25, please call Chesapeake Academy at 438-5575.
Chesapeake Academy’s final Discovery Day will be held on Saturday, March 24.
