To serve every student with excellence as the standard

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!!

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