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Experiential Study Trips

Experiential Learning and WES Study Trips: Taking Learning To The Next Level.

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Whether the destination is around the beltway for our Nursery students to feel the soft hair on a baby goat at the farm or for Grade 7 students to closely examine the 470 BC Greek fresco Diver’s Tomb in Paestum, Italy, all of the senses are engaged. These first-hand experiences provide jumping-off points for students to ask questions, read more, and to explore and embrace the world around them. Our extensive and unique study trips program involve students at every grade level and gradually prepare them for the one-of-a-kind study abroad trips that occur in Middle School.

WES Study Trips

Nursery
Calleva Farm, Adventure Theatre, Imagination Stage, In-House Chicken Hatching

Pre-K
Green Meadows Farms, Adventure Theatre, Imagination Stage, National Zoo, the Audubon Society, and Brookside Gardens

Kindergarten
Sharp’s Farm, Apple Orchard, Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, Imagination Stage, local pond excursion

Grade 1
National Building Museum, Kennedy Center, Recycling Center, Imagination Stage, and local businesses

WES students are on the move and getting hands-on experience each year! WES incorporates experiential learning in early childhood education through hands-on study trips in the Washington DC area.

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Experiential Learning in Early Childhood Education

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