Fourth Graders need a North Carolina Shore Adventure
My students need a class trip for 100 students to the North Carolina Shore. We will first stop at Bodie Island to see the light house, then The Wright Brothers Museum and monument and finally Jockey's Ridge to see the sand dunes.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
I am a teacher in rural North Carolina. This year I am teaching 4th grade reading and social studies. Our curriculum is all about North Carolina, the regions and history.
We teach our children all year about the wonderful old lighthouses at the shore which are the oldest in the country. We teach our students about the Wright Brothers and how they flew their airplanes to make history. We talk about our natural sand dunes and the wild horses that are still at the shore. I would love to make the textbook and movies come alive by showing the students how the North Carolina Shore looks in person.
I teach in a Title I school which means most of the students receive free lunch. Most of my students come from single parent homes. A trip to the shore would be out of most of my students' reach. Last year we took a group of 4th graders on this trip and it was an adventure of a lifetime. The children learned so much in one day. A month of lessons about the N.C. shore would not have taught them as much. They went on a scavenger hunt and learned about all the places they went to that day. When I came back from the trip last year most of the adults I told about it had never been to the shore their entire lives.
With budgets being very tight this year because of school cuts we must raise all the funds in order for the children to go this year. This is an experience that shouldn't be thrown away because our budget was cut. This is an experience the children will remember their whole lives and the learning is immeasurable. Help us take our 4th graders to the shore so they can learn the beauty of North Carolina and not just remember facts from a book. We need two charter buses and we are on our way.
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