Fast Facts
Enrichment and Activity Highlights
- Animation class by Emmy-award winning animator
- Dunking shirts into buckets of dye to create colorful tie-dye apparel
- Beading
- Inking linocut cards and inscribing them with messages
- Making aprons and then attending healthy cooking classes.
- Chess lessons from a Charlotte Mecklenburg Scholastic Chess Association instructor
- Making drums using recyclable materials, and having a drumming lesson the following week.
- Sprechen sie Deutsch? Yes! Introductory German lesson for Level 2 scholars.
- Creating sunprint murals with the Light Factory.
- Learning about second shift pollinators in the McColl Center for Visual Art’s Mobile ArtLab, through ecological exhibits, hands on activities, video screens, microscopes, and robotic PlantBots.
- Enjoying the opera The Three Little Pigs, highlighting the importance of literacy, brought to SPFS by Opera Express, the educational touring company of Opera Carolina.
- 6 Weeks! 6 Books! spearheaded by the Levine-Sklut Judaic Library, allowed scholars to select a book each week to keep in their home libraries.
- Jewish Family Services through Challahs for Scholars made sure that scholars had a tasty treat at the end of each week by sending home to each scholar family a challah from the Shalom Park community
