examples of enrichment programs & field trips

here is a sampling of the typical field trip and enrichment programs at the butler during the school year:

kindergarten

• field trip to carlson orchards

• field trip to habitat, mass audubon education center and wildlife sanctuary

1st grade

• meteorologist visit (in-school program)

• field trip to discovery museum

• bugology (in-school program)

• field trip to the butterfly place

2nd grade

• sled dog visit with john kenney (in-school program)

• jambo africa presentation (in-school program)

• field trip to broadmoor, mass audubon wildlife sanctuary

3rd grade

• field trips to mit for lego car rally workshops 

• new england aquarium traveling program, tidepool adaptations (in-school)

• field trip to the freedom trail (paul revere house; old south meeting house)

• wampanoag visit: people of the east, plimoth plantation (in-school program) 

• weather: wind, water & temperature, mos (in-school program)

4th grade

• field trip to tsongas industrial history center

• field trips to the harvard museum of natural history 

• museum of science traveling program: motion, forces, & energy (in-school)

the butler pta funds teachers’ instructional expenses, textbooks, and library books as well as principal's curriculum priorities including chrome books.