Learning Outside the Classroom

Field Trips

Grade levels plan four field trips per year that allow students to expand and apply their classroom learning in new ways and engage with their community. See highlights from each grade level below.

Kinder

Yuma County Library
Emerald Springs Assisted Living Community: students performed songs from their holiday performance for residents at Emerald Springs

First

Yuma Pumpkin Patch
Ballet Performance
Yuma East Wetlands Eco Explorations Program: students used their senses to examine plants and animals of Yuma East Wetlands and explored their natural world by listening for bird calls, searching for animal prints in the mud, smelling plants, and touching cottonwoods

Second

Yuma Recycling Center
Yuma West Wetlands
Greenheart Farms: students discovered the seed to plant cycle and learned how plants are grown in greenhouses

Third

Yuma Proving Grounds
Yuma Conservation Garden
San Diego Zoo: students examined animal adaptations in real animals, and experienced a behind the scenes tour that exposed students to careers in animal sciences

Fourth

Kartchner Cavern State Park
Yuma Water Festival
Yuma West Wetlands
Birch Aquarium
Kartchner Caverns State Park: students applied knowledge of erosion, weathering, and deposition in relationship to a cavern habitat

Fifth

Yuma Community Food Bank
San Diego Balboa Park
City of Yuma Water Treatment Plant: students learned about the ways that renewable resources are maximized in our community

Sixth

Crossroads Mission
Food Evolution Movie Screening and Century Heights Community Garden
American Takki
Yuma Community Food Bank: students learned about food insecurity in Yuma and began developing ways they could help reduce that insecurity

After School Clubs

Teacher and parent led after school clubs allowed students to explore their passions outside of the classroom. Clubs included:

Geek Club
Makerspace
Podcasting
French
Spanish
Chess
Crazy Eights

Physical Fitness
Drawing
Archery
Scrabble
Computer Coding
Art Through the Ages
Exploding Dots Math
Photography

Student Leadership

Generation Yes

GenYes

Student Council

Teams

Odyssey of the Mind- 5th Place at Worlds

Math Counts

First Lego League

Soccer
Football
Basketball

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