![]() ![]() School Year Overview School's out for summer! This past school year has been a learning curve and WRI staff worked hard to adapt to COVID-19. Programming looked different, but these new versions of learning still allowed over 1,500 students to connect with and experience nature. We offered: virtual field trips, virtual after school programming, at-school Field Days, Field Days at WRI, and small, in-person day camps! ![]() ![]() We built lesson plans and activities connected with pre-recorded videos, and also offered real-time virtual field trips to surrounding schools, serving over 600 students. We also made two educational videos for the Wenatchee School District and taught students via Zoom in their After School Program, reaching over 400 students. ![]() ![]() As the weather got warmer and more restrictions lifted, we adapted further by offering 1-hour at-school Field Days for kindergarten and grades 1, 2, 3, and 5, serving over 300 students. We offered full-day Field Days to Vale Elementary 3rd graders on our campus, serving 108 students. Additionally, we partnered with Cascade Home Link to offer smaller, outside, in-person programming, teaching about skins, skulls, and a 4-week unit on birds to 48 students. We also taught a collaborative science day camp for Icicle River Middle School 6th graders, serving 71 students. ![]() ![]() Thankfully, we were able to offer small, in-person day camps twice a week. Since September, we've held 29 sessions of camp! We introduced the Pay What You Can structure to help lessen financial hardship to attending camp. Last week was the last school year session camp until the fall. It is a bittersweet moment, but we look forward to what summer 2021 holds! We thank you, our community, for sticking with us.
Place Call for Volunteers Interested in doing some office volunteering? We have a big project coming up in the next couple of weeks and we could use your help! We are mailing out 2,500 letters for our Endowment fund campaign where donations are matched four-to-one by the Icicle Fund (up to $250,000). We need some extra hands for envelope stuffing. Email Randee if you are interested in helping!
P.S. More information to come on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Thank you to our donors from the last 2 weeks! Candace and Chuck Egner - Sustaining Tara deArrieta - Sustaining Diane Patterson and David Stoller - Sustaining Heather and Derek Davis Tracy and Ben Brulotte - Sustaining Dave and Pat Notter - Sustaining |