Bridges "Growing Older, Growing Together"

For the next 7 weeks your child will be participating in the Bridges program.  Bridges is an inter generational program that fosters friendships and understanding between students and older adults in our community.  Over the next 7 weeks, 7 older adults will join our classroom to participate in discussions and small group projects that focus on our common experience.

Through this program your child will strengthen many academic skills including: listening, summarizing, speaking, interviewing, writing paragraphs, recording main points from group discussions, creating charts, and working with maps.

Please enjoy some pictures of Lesson 1 Learning About Seniors (this activity was done without the seniors)

Students were asked to think of a memory they had of a senior.  Then they had to work in pairs, one person was a piece of clay while the other was a potter.  The potter had to sculpt the clay into the older person in his or her memory.  The rest of the class tried to guess the students memory.