Kindergarten students at Sawgrass Bay Elementary School caught a glimpse of life when they are all grown up.
Earlier this month, kindergarteners dressed up as what they want to be when they are grown up and participated in a special career day, learning about different careers. They began to plan for their future.
“Career day is a fun and educational way to expose our kindergarteners to a wide variety of careers,” said Kindergarten Team Leader Rebecca Clevenger. “We want our students to know that if they set their goals and work hard in school, that anything is possible in their future.”
An integral part of the day was community involvement. Business partners and volunteers came to the school to share their careers with the students through speeches and hands-on activities. Students had the opportunity to meet and interact with a SeaWorld whale trainer, a physician, a pharmacist, an aeronautics professor, a medical technician, a Disney chef, a Lake County deputy, a chiropractor and a dance teacher.
This event also ties into a school-wide book project that is unique to Sawgrass Bay Elementary. Each class authors and illustrates a book each year. Teachers and students choose topics that promote critical thinking through academic connections. This year, each kindergarten student will be working with classmates to create their own book about what they want to be when they grow up.
“It is never too early to encourage our students to set life goals for themselves and begin working to achieve those goals,” said Dr. Julio Valle, Jr., Principal at Sawgrass Bay Elementary. “This year Lake County has set a district-wide goal of helping our students be C2 ready. That means moving them toward more rigorous common core academic standards, and being college and career ready. What better activity than to involve our community in such a meaningful way to help our youngest students to not only see the future, but be ready to meet it with success?”
Sawgrass Bay Elementary, a Title I school, strives to move all its students toward a future of unlimited possibilities; teaching student college and career ready skills, as well as a helping them choose a meaningful direction in which they can see a bright future for themselves is essential to their success now and later in life.
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