Celebration Photos

Prior to coming to Capital City, I had never heard of expeditionary learning and I definitely had never heard of a Celebration of Learning.  Celebration of Learning is an important part of the expeditionary school model.  From what I understand, as a COL newbie, is that they usually happen to celebrate student process and products.  The process and demonstration of learning is as important as final products and students are expected to be able to present some part of their work to families, friends, and other vested parties.  Our COL was truly celebratory as students raced around the day of to put the final touches on their products and prepare their classrooms for presentations.  It was really exciting to see students EXCITED about subjects like math, science and humanities.  In my classroom, I had both gallery displays set up demonstrating our process and products but also stations set up where students could physically show their families how to make artworks.  Watching student presentations really gave me a good gauge on how well students had learned artmaking techniques.  It was a wonderful night.  Below are some pictures from the night.