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Gather Around the Lindbergh Campfire to Learn
June 6, 2022 -- The traditional academic school year at Columbus City Schools just ended, but students were already lined up ready to come back to Lindbergh Elementary School on the city’s west side this morning. For the next two weeks, students in grades K-5 will participate in “Camp Lindbergh,” an intensive half-day academic enrichment program focused on all things camping.
“This is the first year we have offered Camp Lindbergh,” said Lindbergh Principal Annette Tooman. “Each day we will focus on one math, reading, and writing exercise, but it’s summer, after all, so we want the students to have fun which is why each day has a camp-like theme.”
After students picked up breakfast and put on their tie-dye camp t-shirts, Principal Tooman started the first day of Camp Lindbergh by gathering all the teachers, instructional aides, and close to 100 students out on the playground. Strumming her guitar, Tooman told the students in two weeks they would know the Lindbergh song so they could sing it so loud, that “it would wake up all the neighbors still asleep at 8:30 in the morning.”
After the mock campfire/playground sing-a-long, students were ushered back into the school building. In Miss Pinkerton’s fourth grade classroom, the focus was on writing. Using different fish, students had to create the main theme and provide three supporting details.
In Mr. Hughes's kindergarten class, there were several workstations set up where students worked in small groups with a teacher or instructional aide. One group was reeling in math equations from one pond, while another student was fishing in a separate pond for the correct answer.
“Four plus one is five,” said one student, using the magnet at the end of the fishing pole to reel in the number five fish.
In another corner of the room, the teacher was asking students to share and spell words associated with fishing. “Bait,” said one young learner.
Students were creating their own campfire on construction paper using fingerpaints down the hallway in the arts and crafts room.
“At Lindbergh, we are respectful, responsible, safe, kind, and ready to learn,” said Tooman. “For the next two weeks, we’re adding ready to have fun too.”
Tooman is thrilled that 20 teachers, three instructional aids, and the school counselor all signed up for Camp Lindbergh, which runs every day from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
This program at Lindbergh is part of a larger district-wide initiative called “Power On.” Using Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Funds created due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the initiative is designed to implement school-based acceleration and engagement programs for students and staff after school hours.
Camp Lindbergh, which runs from June 6-16, officially kicks off the district summer learning. On June 21, the 2022 Summer Experience begins for more than 6,000 registered students in grades Pre-K through 12. This year’s Summer Experience has expanded to include new and familiar project-based learning opportunities that students and families enjoyed through our Pathway Express focuses: Entrepreneurship, Family & Consumer Sciences, Fine Arts, STEM, and World Languages & Cultures. Teachers and community partners have created powerful, hands-on enrichment opportunities that will challenge our students to continue to grow as learners.