Beyond the Bell: Part 3 – Sound Garden
As part of our 9-part series featuring Operation Inspire’s enriching afterschool programs, our third installment highlights Ricardo Richards Elementary School’s “Sound Garden” program for 1st-3rd grades. This program offers a unique opportunity for students to explore the connection between sound and emotions.
Through the Sound Garden program, students are exploring and experimenting with how sounds relate to emotions and are working together to create instruments and a garden focused on helping themselves and others engage with specific emotions.
Why a Sound Garden?
While exploring music and science students are also building their creativity and teamwork skills. Plus, students get the thrill of seeing their creations come to life in an outdoor space that everyone can enjoy.
What Does the Program Cover?
During this course, students are learning about sound waves, vibrations, pitch, and volume, as well as experimenting with different materials and shapes to discover how they influence the way sound travels and how it is heard.
One of the most exciting aspects of this program is that students are able to use engineering principles to build functional musical instruments that will allow them to gain a deeper understanding of the role that technology plays in the design process. The Sound Garden program also emphasizes teamwork, encouraging students to collaborate on projects.
Watch for the next post in this series, where we will explore another Cane Bay Cares’ Operation Inspire afterschool program designed specifically to nurture holistic well-rounded individuals.
Cane Bay Cares is a service initiative of St. Croix-based Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP. Cane Bay Cares was established after three strong hurricanes, including two Category 5 storms, Irma and Maria, caused much damage to St. Croix during September 2017. The initiative has a goal of providing relief to the citizens of St. Croix. To make this possible, we have partnered with St. Croix Foundation, which is a 501c3 nonprofit that was established in 1990. All donations to Cane Bay Cares are donations to St. Croix Foundation and are 100% tax deductible.
Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP was formed in June 2009 and founded by internationally experienced business executives with many years of experience in the financial services industry. Focusing our efforts primarily in the financial services industry, our management consulting practice specializes in providing services to clients in need of sophisticated risk management models, debt collections organizations which require liquidation models and analytics, and portfolio management companies desiring a variety of services.
Since 1990, St. Croix Foundation for Community Development has been advancing holistic community development as a pathway to economic prosperity, self-sufficiency, and sustainability. Established in the wake of Hurricane Hugo, today the Foundation is one of the premier place-based philanthropic leaders in the Virgin Islands. Having served as the conduit of over $37 million private and public sector dollars invested into the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Foundation’s impact has netted national recognition in almost every priority area – from economic development and community revitalization to public health, education reform, and nonprofit development. Our mission is to encourage greater philanthropic activity, to marshal resources, and to act as a catalyst to benefit the people of the Virgin Islands.