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Experiential Learning

FASRI’s experience integrates an array of experiential learning opportunities, which make learning purposeful, relevant, and concrete. Regular field trips are articulated with the curriculum progress, and inquiry concept questions guide the projects designed by faculty.

Maternelle/Preschool and Elementary students discover the world around them in Providence and Rhode Island while Middle School students have the opportunity to expand their horizon to national and international destinations.

FASRI’s unique experiential learning model intentionally creates opportunities to reinforce academics, develop social and emotional skills, and inspire character development.

Below are examples of a variety of experiential learning opportunities.

 

Maternelle/Preschool - PK1/PK2/K

In addition to regular day field trips, and thanks to an institutional partnership with the Providence Children’s Museum, PK1, PK2 and K students participated in 2020 in the School at the Museum Signature Program. All students and faculty worked with the museum’s educators and artists in residence in a 2-day interdisciplinary unit, which focuses on science and art. Students’ work was exhibited at the museum, the school and other venues around town.

 
Providence Children's Museum Website: http://www.childrenmuseum.org/

 

Elementary School - 1st to 5th grades

The official institutional partnership with the RISD Museum allows all Elementary students to regularly visit the museum upon curriculum progress, and integrate the discovery and analysis of art pieces into their research theme.

Grades 1 and 2 benefit from day field trips, such as, but not limited to, visits to the Boston and/or the Mystic Aquarium, or the Boston Museum of Natural History.

Grades 3 and up benefit from the experience from overnight field trips such as, depending on the years:

  • Mystic Seaport's Ship to Shore Program
  • Nature's Classroom Yarmouth and Groton, MA

The scaffold approach to overnight field trips develop autonomy, responsibility, and resilience as students experience being away from home in the safe and nurturing environment of their peer group. At the end of 5th grade, FASRI students are fully ready to travel abroad on international exchange trips.

 

 

 

 

Middle School

COMMUNITY BUILDING INITIATIVE

In Middle School, students start the Academic Year with a community building trip. The trip allows students to engage in fun mixed grade activities that require collaborative skills and creativity. Watch our students in action!

 

2023/2024 6TH  &  7TH GRADE TRIP TO WASHINGTON, D.C.

 
 

International Trips

Our students are globally-minded and knowledgeable individuals eager to continue building their multilingual skills and cross-cultural abilities in real life situations. 

Find here several examples of our international trips as students visited France, Canada and Spain (Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris - Montreal, Quebec - Reus, Spain, near Barcelona).

 
Reciprocal Exchange Trip to France with host families 

Travelling to France for 10 days – welcoming French peers in Providence

Academics- inquiry themes Cultural Exchange Language Development


Emotional Intelligence Development

I learn to digitally collaborate with pen pals/peers before the trip leg of the program

I explore curriculum academic content collaboratively with my counterparts, comparing perspectives and sharing ideas

I explore and contrast habitat, architecture and history in France and the United States of America in the overarching theme of the intertwined links of human history

I explore culture and history in museums found in France and the United States of America.

I stay in a host family, and I welcome my peer in my family

I learn to develop new relationships and friendships

I attend a French school in France

I visit landmarks and discover history and culture: Louvre Museum, Science Museum, and on

I discover and practice a typical popular sport 

I discover the French daily way of life

I use my French knowledge and skills in an immersive situation

I use my French competencies in a French school, measuring myself against native speakers’ benchmarks

I am self responsible away from my family

I learn to support my peers

I learn to be independent, resourceful and resilient

I learn to represent FASRI and be an ambassador of its mission and core values

I maintain a Memory Sensory Journal
 
2023/2024 TRIP TO FRANCE

 

 

2017/2018 TRIP TO FRANCE
 

 
 

 

Interdisciplinary Discovery Trip to Montreal 

5 days in Montreal

Academics- inquiry themes Cultural Exchange Language Development


Emotional Intelligence Development
Interdisciplinary unit based on Visual Arts, Music and Math: data collection, art and music

I discover the French speaking province of Quebec and its links to the Rhode Island heritage

I discover the art and music of the First Peoples in Quebec

I visit Montreal’s landmarks

I use my French knowledge and skills in an immersive situation

I understand what “Francophonie” means through the lenses of the Quebecois lexicon

I am self responsible away from my family

I learn to support my peers

I learn to be independent, resourceful and resilient

I learn to represent FASRI and be an ambassador of its mission and core values
 

 

 
 
 

Reciprocal Exchange Trip to Spain with host families 

Travelling to Spain for 10 days – welcoming Spanish peers in Providence for 10 days

Academics- inquiry themes Cultural Exchange Language Development


Emotional Intelligence Development

I learn to digitally collaborate with pen pals/peers before, during, and after the trip leg of the program

I explore curriculum academic content collaboratively with my counterparts, comparing perspectives and sharing ideas

I have a better assimilation, understanding, and application of the contents seen in class, by making it possible to apply linguistic skills: understand (listen and read); speak (take part in a conversation and express myself continuously), and write (daily educational workbook).

I practice the grammatical skills and vocabulary acquired in a real-world setting with my host family and my Spanish counterpart.

I engage in a cultural exchange where opinions, language, and cultural biases are explored.

I stay in a host family, and I welcome a peer in my family

I learn to develop new relationships and friendships with a peer of similar age from a different cultural background.

I attend a bilingual French/Spanish school in Spain

I visit Reus and Barcelona’s landmarks and discover history and culture related to France and Spain. 

I discover the Spanish daily way of life I become part of a French/Spanish speaking school and respect their values (role modeling)

I use my Spanish knowledge and skills in an immersive situation

I expand my global outlook and understanding of the world by comparing three languages and cultures I am learning at FASRI.

I am self responsible away from my family

I learn to support my peers

I learn to be independent, resourceful and resilient

I learn to represent FASRI and be an ambassador of its mission and core values