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Redding Elementary School is located in the Polk Gulch community of San Francisco, where a rich mix of students engages daily in the task of learning. We strive to provide a nurturing, safe and caring learning environment in which students achieve their maximum potential in all areas, with a strong emphasis in an arts integrated curriculum. Parent and community involvement provide a strong and vital link between the home, community and school. Each new school year brings innovative programs and activities to foster student learning and...
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Every spring, for the last 6 years, Redding School’s
5th grade students and their teachers have taken a week-long field trip
to Foothill Horizons in Sonora, California.
Here they get to experience learning in an outdoor classroom with naturalists
and nature as their teachers. It is truly a first time, once in a lifetime
experience for most of our students as they pet snakes, climb 165 feet down
into a cavern, wade in near-freezing water and make fire without matches,
to name a few experiences. They learn how the MeWuk tribe of Native Americans
lived off the land, view the pitch-black night sky brimming with twinkling
stars, and meet animals they’ve only seen in picture books or behind
bars in cages. Their eyes and their vocabulary are stretched to include
such sights and words as ‘stalagmite, stalactite, and oomacha.’
It is truly a learning experience....more
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Look for more in the Special Sonora Edition of the Redding Dragon Newsletter
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