CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. – First-graders at Cherokee Ridge Elementary School say they enjoy learning at the hands of older gifted students in the school’s Kaleidoscope program.
“We can see without the teachers and the big class all around,” Hunter Hayes said Wednesday as he and three other first-graders took in a display on South America and a presentation from fifth-grade Kaleidoscope student Natalie Taylor on the school’s sunny lawn.
With a smile for her audience, Natalie, one of 120 gifted students at Cherokee Ridge, said she liked sharing her knowledge about the continent with the younger students.
Deforrest Braly, another fifth-grader in the program, said he enjoys the added study challenge and the chance to teach.
Last year Deforrest played Albert Einstein in the program’s “wax museum” activity.