The 1st and 2nd Grade class studied the country of Italy for our 2013 Social Studies Fair. We concluded our study with a field trip to La-Villa on Timberlake Road. There the students made pizza and were treated to some playtime at Putt-Putt, compliments of the Digiovanni’s at...
Desmond T. Doss Christian Academy’s 5th and 6th graders culminated their NAD Pathways unit on dinosaurs with a trip to Martinsville to the Virginia Museum of Natural History to see the exhibit “Dinosaurs.” The students enjoyed a wonderful and educational guided tour, spent time learning about animal classification, and even...
In December, we visited Brook Hill Farm’s director, Jo Miller, in her home. She has 3 rescue birds, and we went to her farm to learn more. This field trip coordinated with a Pathways Unit based on the wonderful book Julius, the Perfectly Pesky Pet Parrot. We enjoyed hearing...
On October 31, 2012, we visited Smith Mountain Lake to learn about watersheds, water testing and erosion. We chose this field trip to go along with our Pathways book Come Back Salmon, where a 5th grade class cleans up a stream and get the salmon back in their...
On September 11, we visited our mayor, Michael Gillette. We were studying government (local, state, and national) in connection with our wonderful Pathways unit based on the book Abe Lincoln’s Hat. Mayor Gillette had the students sitting in the city council seats with the voting lights turned on. We had a...