The Bruce Museum is collaborating with Greenwich Audubon and the Garden Education Center of Greenwich for a summer enrichment program for all students attending summer school at Cos Cob and Hamilton Avenue Schools. The program is designed to explore the themes of the schools’ curriculums via hands-on experiments and exploration.
The Museum is working with all of the rising second, fourth, and fifth graders attending the program. Second graders are looking closely at pieces of artwork in order to understand how artists express emotions and tell stories, and then create their own emotive pieces. Fourth and fifth graders are concentrating on local ecology by conducting nature studies and creating nature-inspired art.
“This is the inaugural year of this collaboration,” says Corinne Flax, Manager of School and Community Partnerships at the Bruce Museum, “and so far it’s a hit with the kids. They are getting excited about art and nature, and about learning, which is important. We hope it’s something they’ll take with them into the classroom in the fall.”
The special summer enrichment program is supported by a grant received by the Greenwich Public Schools from the Greenwich Alliance for Education, intended to give students more opportunities to learn outdoors and add to and complement the curriculum.
