Planning a Spring Picnic

For this trip, the activity planner was Varun (age 3). Activity planners are students that come up with the idea and then coordinate an experience for their friends and teachers. It is a leadership development experience for the students. Additionally, it exercises their creativity and strengthens their self confidence.

Varun expressed his ideas for this trip through art -- a giant poster board which contained glued on representations of the places and activities he imagined for this field trip. He then shared his ideas with his classmates by communicating verbally while referring to the poster board.

Over the next few days, all of the children collaborated by adding to Varun's initial design for the trip.

The children looked forward to the picnic all week. They had great ownership over their picnic. It was a huge success and they are still talking about it.

-SS