Cahaba's EnRICH Provides Learning Extentions for 4th and 5th Graders

It's 2:15 Friday afternoon, and 4th and 5th grade students at Cahaba are on the move, scurrying to their self-selected EnRICH classes.  EnRICH (Enrich, Reinforce, Inspire, Challenge) began at Cahaba last year, providing extentions and enrichment for all fourth and fifth graders.  The majority of Cahaba's fourth and fifth graders are above average or high average in math and reading.  Cahaba administrators determined that there was a need for "teaching up" and providing enrichment activities for ALL of their fourth and fifth graders.  That's when EnRICH was born.

The schedule has been designed to provide a 45 minute period for intervention and enrichment.  From 2:15 until 3:00, Tuesday through Friday, students are involved in some type of intervention or enrichment activity.  Teachers submit proposals for EnRICH classes to Mrs. Tyner that must meet rigorous expectations and include multiple academic standards.  EnRICH classes meet one or sometimes two times per week.  EnRICH is such a popular initiative that Mrs. Tyner is preparing to include third grade students in EnRICH activities in January or February.

Examples include:

Title:  Travel Trussville 360 (Alabama Bicentennial) 
Do you want to do something BIG?  We are looking for a special group of students to complete our Alabama Bicentennial School project. Students who are chosen for this experience will research historic sites in Trussville.  We will interview authors, investigate Trussville archives and visit the Trussville Historic Society to gain information about our hometown.  Students will work together in groups to create scripts about specific areas in Trussville.  Then, we will take a field trip to those sites and shoot 360 videos.  Once we have the script and video, we will produce a 360 Virtual Field Trip of Trussville, AL. Be a part of Trussville history, join Travel Trussville 360 today!


Title:  CES’s Next Top Firm
In the CES’s Next Top Firm ENRICH Experience, you will form groups to create your own advertising agencies.  Then, all the advertising agencies will compete in challenges to win advertising accounts for real, local businesses in Trussville.  In each challenge, a local business will give a set of guidelines for advertising their business.  It is up to each group how they want to meet these guidelines but also stand out from the other agencies, so that the business will choose their advertisement over the others.  In the process of designing your advertising campaign, you will: create and use different types of technology, learn about advertising strategies, learn how to write a business plan, and develop a budget for your campaign.  Local businesses will use the advertisements created by the challenge winners to advertise.  The group that wins the most accounts
becomes CES’s Next Top Firm and will be in charge of advertising all of Cahaba Elementary School Events until another agency is crowned CES’s Next Top Firm in the next Enrichment Experience!

Title:  Alabama Architects Dream School Design

Have you ever wanted to design your own school? Imagine being the boss of your very own dream school. Who would you get to be your assistant principal? Stephen Curry would make a great choice if you decided on a NBA sport format dream school.  What type of classes would you offer to the students? How about how to care for your unicorn and ways to make unicorns more classroom friendly.  Where would your school be located? What about Out of this world school and space camp now taking applications for students with “high” expectations?

The sky's the limit when it comes to designing your very own dream school! Sign up now and put on your architect hat, it is time to design your dream school!

Alabama Architects Dream School Design (above)

Make Cahaba  (above)

TED Talk (above)