Lower School
Lower School Penguin Project
First Grade and Fourth Grade joined forces yesterday to kick off our annual Penguin Project collaboration!
At their first meeting, students got to know their new teammates, created team names, and tackled the challenge facing the South African penguin—too few safe nesting sites due to habitat destruction. Together, they brainstormed creative ideas for what an artificial nest could look like and what materials might help protect these resilient animals.
Back in their classrooms, First Grade will dive deeper through reading, research, persuasive writing, and beautiful illustrations, creating gorgeous posters to educate our community about issues like overfishing, water pollution, and nesting site loss. The project connects to their Social Impact theme, Animals in the Community, while Fourth Grade will begin designing and constructing nest models in Science.
Students will reunite later this spring to showcase what First Grade has learned and what Fourth Grade has built—proof that teamwork can make a real difference for animals in our world.
The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.