Woodshop
Woodshop is offered to students in grades K/1 on a weekly basis. Students in grades 2/3 attend woodshop on an occasional basis for special projects. Students attend woodshop in small groups, where they work on projects that support the classroom curriculum. Students learn the basic skills of being in a real woodshop, as well as reinforce their math, science, communication and social skills.
Projects for the K/1 students consist of building model houses and environments, including scale models of their own family members, around which they then create a society. Because these projects last several months, the students have the opportunity to better understand the complexity of their own real-life surroundings. Students also build their own instruments to understand how sound works in musical instruments, or create toys that have stability and purpose.
All students at Aurora School have the opportunity to attend an after-school, project-based woodshop two days per week as part of the regular Extended Care program.
Woodshop is also an indispensable component of the summer theater arts camp where students create props, backdrops and musical instruments for that summer's play.