These are traditional Crazy Creek chairs. They are durable and will stand to the cold and wet environment that Donner Trail exists in the majority of the year. They will work in one size for all students and break down in a way that we can store them easily in our limited school space.
Our school is beginning our second year of an outdoor education program that incorporates our specific school needs and our unique environment. Through our first year, we have learned that we need to have something more durable for students to sit on while working outside in the snow or by the river so that they can stay dry while writing in their field books or working through a hands-on activity. We have so much snow most of the year that this product will be essential to the continued growth of the outdoor educational program.
The program will be measured in the amount of use they will get. Not only will we use these on our monthly "Tracker Days" which are our school wide outdoor learning days, but also for individual classrooms use of the outdoors to teach math, science, reading, and more. These will be used on a weekly basis, even if it is for guided or shared reading outside. Our school also has a weekly reading buddies time block that can now go outside and be part of our special environment.
These will first be implemented as a whole school opportunity during our Tracker Day Programming which is designed by our STEAM teacher with the support of all staff and local volunteers. We will then use them throughout a variety of individual and whole school learning opportunities.
The whole school is sharing this grant and it is meant for the whole school to implement and utilize as often as possible.