Enrichment
Mission:
To serve every student with excellence as the standard
Enrichment for All
We believe that children of every ability level should be given opportunities to stretch their learning as far as they can take it.
Our enrichment program is designed to encourage divergent and critical thinking that will reach beyond the classroom and span different topics and subject areas.
We hope that you will share our enthusiasm for these activities with your child throughout the school year!
Spessard L. Holland Elementary School strives to provide enriched learning experiences and higher learning standards for all levels of learners through three goals:
developing talents in all students
providing a broad range of advanced-level enrichment experiences for all students
providing advanced follow-up opportunities for children based on their strengths and interests
Why is Enrichment Important?
Enrichment promotes critical thinking and problem-solving skills, improves a student's ability to concentrate, and makes learning more meaningful, valuable, and rewarding.
Enrichment activities are fun, which helps students to become more engaged in their learning and retain more information. These are the experiences that children will remember throughout their lives!!
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has - or ever will have - something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression."
Mr. Rogers
What are some of the ways that your child will experience enrichment at Holland Elementary?
Kindergarten
Tiered assignments to reach all levels of learners
Virtual field trips
Reading groups in which students can work in an upper grade book to help increase their vocabulary
Reading Counts
First and Second Grades
Tiered assignments to reach all levels of learners
Differentiated spelling curriculum
Teacher table
Student choice activity boards
Field trips
Interest centers
“I’m Done, Now What?” Board – provides a wide variety of choices and levels, many of which are driven by student interest
Third and Fourth Grades
Hands-on projects of student interest which include public speaking, problem-solving, research, artistic creation, collaboration with peers
Independent study projects
Poetry reading/writing
Producing videos, Power Points, Sways
Introduction to next grade level math
Curriculum Compacting
Virtual and on location field trips
Science and Engineering Fair
Socratic Seminars
Creating online newsletters
Fifth and Sixth Grades
Science: STEM/STEAM activities, e.g., raft challenge, bottle rockets, solar oven cook-off, egg drop challenge, science and engineering fair
Hands-on/Minds-on Inquiry Labs
Project Opportunities e.g., elements, posters, models, independent studies
On the spot research into topics of student interest
Grade level comprehensive projects, such as Global Issues produced at Satellite High School
Acceleration through exposure to higher level reading materials
7th grade Math content as extended lessons
Challenge Problems such as Painting Cubes and Bird problems, problem solving AIMS enrichment resources
A Day in the Life of the Indian River Lagoon Field Trip
Additional Enrichment Opportunities
4th, 5th, and 6th grade chorus
Junior Violin (primary grades)
Beginning Orchestra – 5th grade
Intermediate Orchestra – 6th grade
Musical/community theatre style productions
Performance opportunities throughout Brevard County and at Disney
Odyssey of the Mind
SLAM- Sunshine Literacy Adventures in Media
Coding Team – Scratch, Python
3-D Printing – Tinker Cad
First LEGO League LEGO Robotics
K – 3 Robotics through BAS
6th Grade TV Production
Mad Scientist Day (schoolwide)
Artemis – Critical Thinking/Team Building
Coding/Programming with Spheros, Ollies, Ozobots