Re: ELEM: schoolwide theme

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We are not an elementary school; we are a middle school (6-8) that has a
school wide theme each year.  Our themes have been varied and often
related to solving a need or current world happenings.  Our themes last
for the whole year are teachers weave the theme into whatever curricula
they are teaching.

The last year of the Olympics the theme was "Personal Best".  One year our
theme was "Quest" and we explored quests in literature, quests in history
and in today's world.  We had a Rob Taylor as a guest speaker just prior
to his last climb of K2.

The key to picking a theme is to make it broad enough to be touched on in
all areas of the curriculum.

Our elementary schools does a similar activity by call in an "Immersion
Day" and spend the whole day in activities around the them, rather than
the whole year as our middle school does.

Hope this is helpful.

Judith a. Naylor
Buker Middle School
Wenham, MA