Community Daycare

In partnership with Lawrence Public Schools, Community Day Learning is the recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to operate out-of-school time programs that extend student learning beyond the school day. Fun, multidisciplinary projects engage students while strengthening their grasp of academic concepts. Project-based learning takes place in sessions during the year and has incorporated elements from a range of curricula and structured programs: Engineering Adventures™ from the Museum of Science, Boston, a curriculum created for out-of-school time programs that introduces students to the engineering design process as they ask questions, imagine, plan, create, and improve solutions to real-world problems Strength and Power in Nutrition (SPIN): a health and consumer program of UMass for adolescents emphasizing personal power and healthy choices SPARK, a program that helps students develop motor skills, movement knowledge, and social and personal skills to encourage lifelong healthy behaviors Scratch, a graphical programming system developed by MIT Media Lab Beyond the Chalkboard from the Children's Museum, Boston, which covers a range of subjects, including science, literacy, culture, art, health, math, and engineering in ways that support what's learned during the school day