6th Grade Field Trip
Good evening! We wanted to give you the details of an exciting field trip coming up for the entire 6th grade!
When: April 2nd
Where: Birmingham Children’s Theater
2130 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N
Birmingham, AL 35203
Cost: $14.00 per student via MySchoolFees. Payment due by 3/16
Why: This 9 weeks in Language Arts, we have been reading The Wednesday Wars, a novel about a middle school boy being forced, unfairly in his opinion, to read Shakespeare. As we read the novel, we are also reading some of the Shakespeare plays along with our character. This has led us into a discussion about plays and dramas and how they compare to the novels we often read. So, to experience this first hand, our students will get to go to the Children’s Theater to see a play, The Sword in the Stone, and will then get to have a small group intensive with the actors and producers about all things Shakespeare. They will learn how we interpret classical Shakespeare into modern themes today.
What you need to know:
- We will be boarding the bus at 8:45 AM so it is imperative that your child be at school on time that day.
- We will eat a sack lunch and EVERYTHING will need to be thrown away before boarding the bus to head back to the school. This includes water bottles. Pack the lunch in a brown bag, a large ziplock, or some other disposable bag. There will be no microwave or refrigerator available, but we will transport the lunches in ice chests in order to keep them as cool as possible on the bus until lunch time.
- At this time, we only need a couple of chaperones per team, and this will be on a first come, first serve basis. Please email a team teacher if you would like to chaperone and we will let you know when the list is full. If you aren’t on the chaperone list, but still want to come with your child on the field trip, you may purchase your own ticket for the 10:00 AM show for $10 through the theater, and you may drive to the theater and meet us there. We will let you sit by them in the theater, but they must ride the bus with us.
- All children must ride the bus to the theater and back to the school. If you want to check your child out early, you may do so in the front office after we have arrived back at Bumpus. We should be back around 2:30.
- There is no permission slip because you signed permission for all field trips during registration. If for some reason you do not want your child to accompany the field trip, please notify the team teachers.