30th Year of Project Inside Out

Project Inside Out is a school program which challenges students to apply basic skills in a non-school setting. Students have the opportunity to explore and expand the basic school curriculum in a variety of hands-on activities and life experiences. Here is a link to some of the activities offered.

Once the children are at Project Inside Out, they work in multi-grade small groups of eight to ten children. Hopefully, students appreciate the fact that learning takes place all around them and not just in school. Here you can find a copy of the typical daily schedule.

Project Inside Out also provides an opportunity for teachers, parents, community members and various performing artists to work together with and for the children of Porter's Point School. Each year approximately one hundred adults are involved in making the program a success. This will be the 30th consecutive year! Some parents have remained involved with Project Inside Out for many years even though their children have moved to another school.

Project Inside Out is totally funded by the money children earn through fundraising and donations from members of the community. Parent and community support in so many ways have made Project Inside Out the wonderful and unique program it has been for the past thirty years.

Sample Activity List

Basket Weaving   Bike Rodeo   Birdhouses
Birds   Boat Making    Candle Making
Canoeing   Cookies & Cookie Jars    Counted Cross Stitch
Early American Cooking   Early American Games    Early American Schools
Early American Tea Party   Early American Toys    First Aid
Hiking & Outdoor Cooking   Hug a Tree    Insects
Jewelry   Jumping Rope    Kites
Masks   Musical Instruments    Natural Dyeing
Paper Plate Projects   Picture Frames    Pillow Making
Pirate Adventures   Puppets    Radiant Star
Recorders   Stenciling    Stuffed Animals
Tinwork   Weaving    
 
Sample Daily Schedule for Project Inside Out
8:00   Children are bussed to school.
8:30   Children meet with classroom teachers.
9:00   Children are divided into the 26 groups to work on their morning activities.
10:00   Snack Time (Provided by Project Inside Out)
10:15   Children return to work on their morning activities.
11:00   Journal Time - Children record events and impressions of the morning with their classroom teacher.
11:15   Lunch and organized games. Your child should bring a bag lunch daily, including a drink.
12:30   Children are divided into 26 new groups to work on their second project.
2:15   Journal Time - Children record events and impressions of the afternoon with their classroom teacher.
2:30   Clean-up time.
2:40   Buses return to transport children home.