TREATS FOR OUR LITTLE TRICKSTERS LOWER SCHOOL

It was amazing to be invited to participate in this event. Covid made events like stop. I missed being able to be part of the school community.

Our lower school students had a fabulous time this year celebrating Halloween. The students dressed up, trick or treated around the building, and received the opportunity to enjoy a trunk or treat event with our Pioneer parents! Parents volunteered to decorate their cars and hand out candy to the students. It was great to see the smiles come across student faces as they saw all the different decorated cars.

“It was amazing to be invited to participate in this event. Covid made events like stop. I missed being able to be part of the school community. Pioneer does an amazing job bringing parents back into the school community. I love the opportunities that are provided by Pioneer to be involved in my child’s school.” said one of our first grade parents.

At Pioneer we greatly value STEAM education. STEAM education inspires curiosity. It empowers students to ask thought-provoking questions that promote creativity and exploration, and to connect their problem-solving to real-world solutions. During fourth graders’ Earth’s changing surface unit, they learned about erosion. They did a project based learning assessment where students were assigned either a river bank or beach area landscape. Students had to research how erosion affected the area assigned to them and then took on the roles of environmental engineers as they “bought” materials that they used to build a solution to the erosion problem. They spent several weeks planning, testing and revising their designs!