IMAGE GALLERY: 4th Graders Journey Through North America

It’s not every day that fourth graders at the get to spend the day Zumba dancing, petting alligators, making totem poles and sharing the chorus room with Alaskan sled dogs, but that’s precisely how they spent the day on Friday, June 3 while celebrating Across North America Day.

The annual event marks the culmination of a year-long social studies curriculum studying the United States and its neighboring countries.

The entirely volunteer led event, chaired by fourth grade parents Kathleen Delgado and Amy Kudej, offered the students an opportunity to engage in hands-on activities throughout the day-long in-house field trip.  

Dozens of volunteer parents led individual events. They included:  building totem poles, meeting and learning about two Alaskan Malamute sled dogs, designing pottery necklaces, participating in map trivia with Zip Zap Map, Zumba dancing, competing in small teams on Arctic Tundra knowledge, and meeting and greeting an American alligator among other reptiles.

Students, wearing red, white and blue to show their American pride, could be overheard excitedly talking about “Moby and Rainy," the two Alaskan Malamutes, and “Squirt," the four-year old American alligator who was rescued from a Massachusetts pond.

Hospitality volunteers cooled off the kids with a mid-day popsicle break and also provided a luncheon buffet for staff and classroom volunteers.

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