Public as well as parents invited to celebrate student accomplishments and learn fun hobbies at Littleton Elementary
You can learn how to butterfly garden, make rain barrels and geocache for prizes at the upcoming Learning Serving & Splashing: a Celebration! event at Dr. Carrie D. Robinson Littleton Elementary School.
The staff is inviting local residents to view student projects from the year and have fun learning about those topics and more.
The students will present their projects from the full school year, said science teacher Susie Hassett. “They will teach how to make rain barrels, container gardens, worm composting bins, native wildflower and butterfly gardens, and how to Geocache.”
Geocaching is finding hidden locations, by using a Smart Phone or GPS. “We actually have these hidden caching spots around the area; if you find the location, you get a prize.”
Science, special studies, English and more will be highlighted. “Students will display all the different projects they did over the year, that involved them learning something and teaching others.
“They are so excited about what they learned, they want to keep teaching others, that’s why we are inviting the public.”
The event will be held Friday, May 20, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the school located at 700 Hutto Rd. in North Fort Myers.
“The students will also present skits about sea life and butterflies,” Hassett said. “There will be touch tanks with sea life and there will be prizes to win. There will be projects to make and take home. There will be photo stories and videos showing our Vocabulary Parade and International Day. This is a culmination of our entire year’s study. It should be a great celebration.”
As far as sea life activities go, she said students just finished citizen research at the Estuary Tropical Point Pine Island location for the Charlotte Harbor Estuary Program. “They did a survey of seagrass there, they will teach the public about the sea creatures they found with puppets and sea life creatures.”
Hassett was and is a marine educator, becoming a full-time Littleton teacher. She has always been in love with anything concerning the sea.
Sea life isn’t all that will be profiled. There will also be the Vocabulary Parade project. “The kids dressed up as one of their vocabulary words to teach the other kids what the words meant.”
One was for the word metamorphoses, where a student, Bryan Zola, dressed up as a caterpillar, and when he opened his costume it became a butterfly.
“We are providing refreshments and would like a head count,” she said. The public can RSVP to 995-3800, for parents to their teachers.