What's New Guest Book Cool Links Home Learning is an adventure feeling daring observing experiencing participating sharing Phoenix students actively use the world outside the classroom as their textbooks. With clipboards, journals and colored pencils in their backpacks, children explore local historical sites, museums and natural preserves and attend concerts, plays and seasonal events.
Students then discuss, draw, write, and sing about their firsthand experiences.
By getting out into the world, I was better able to understand how it worked. It is one thing to passively read about something, it is another to hear a story or see something firsthand. I've seen things and participated in events that I will never forget for the rest of my life. The Phoenix School has been an active partner in the regional effort to bring a replica of the Friendship to Salem Harbor to serve as a permanent educational exhibit. Throughout the course of this project students have learned about geography, history, culture, economic development and trade as well as how ships were built, rigged, sailed and navigated.