Curiosity Cadets: Enriching Your Child’s Experience

Blast off to learning!

To be curious is to be inquisitive—to be eager to learn or know. It’s a trait we encourage our students to embrace because doing so leads to the development of their natural interests in the classroom, and beyond. Curiosity Cadets^TM is a special enrichment program offered exclusively to our Everbrook Academy families in two-week increments throughout the school year.

Curiosity Cadets includes four unique subject areas designed to broaden each child’s horizons. Each program also further develops the 4Cs of 21st century learning through exciting hands-on experiences that expand the learning journey in a fun, memorable way.

Curious about Community
Focus: Community involvement and good citizenship.

Children learn how to be involved, lend a helping hand, give back, and create strong, positive connections that benefit them outside the classroom—with their friends, at home, in our communities, and in the world.

• Communication: Learn how to say hello, goodbye, please, and thank you in sign language.
• Collaboration: Use good manners to build relationships and create a sense of community.
• Creativity: Create a quilt representing each person and design get-well cards.
• Critical Thinking: Learn how to solve common social challenges amongst friends. 

Curious about Cooking

Focus: Nutrition and healthy eating habits.

By exploring different types of food (shapes, texture, etc.) and participating in the preparation of simple, healthful recipes, we hope to inspire your child to establish mindful habits that last a lifetime. And yes, your little foodie will also be a taste tester

• Communication: Learn how to say eat, apple, banana, and cook in sign language.
• Collaboration: Work with classmates to measure, pour, and mix ingredients.
• Creativity: Create unique cooking tools and experiment with different ingredients and tastes.
• Critical Thinking: Learn how to read recipes and decode measurements.

Curious about Art

Focus: An exploration of culture and creativity.

Teachers introduce children to a variety of significant artists, art forms, and modes of expression. They’ll use the lessons as inspiration to create their own mini masterpieces in the styles of various art techniques and movements.

• Communication: Learn how to say color, paint, red, and blue in sign language.
• Collaboration: Create games, activities, songs, and more with peers.
• Creativity: Express yourself with a variety of mediums, let your art speak for itself.
• Critical Thinking: Mix and match colors, use the artwork of others to inspire new designs.

Curious about the World
Focus: Global exploration of diversity and languages.

Children get to travel around the world without leaving school. In our very own world’s fair, students get to experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of a variety of cultures from around the world.

• Communication: Say hello, goodbye, yes, no, please, and thank you in a new language.
• Collaboration: Work together to find countries on a map and dance to traditional music.
• Creativity: Create artwork in the style of another culture.
• Critical Thinking: Measure distances, compare and contrast, and listen to cultural stories.

Young children learn best by being active participants in their own education. By making connections between diverse skills and concepts across learning domains, we support children in becoming critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators. Stay curious, little ones!