Enrichment Programs & Field Trips, 2020-2021
Here is a sampling of the typical field trip and enrichment programs at the Butler during the school year:
Kindergarten
- Field trip to Carlson Orchards
- Field trip to Habitat, Mass Audubon Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
1st grade
- Meteorologist visit (in-school program)
- Field trip to Discovery Museum
- Bugology (in-school program)
- Field trip to The Butterfly Place
2nd grade
- Sled dog visit with John Kenney (in-school program)
- Jambo Africa presentation (in-school program)
- Field trip to Broadmoor, Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary
3rd grade
- Field trips to MIT for Lego Car Rally workshops
- New England Aquarium Traveling Program, Tidepool Adaptations (in-school)
- Field trip to the Freedom Trail (Paul Revere House; Old South Meeting House)
- Wampanoag Visit: People of the East, Plimoth Plantation (in-school program)
- Weather: Wind, Water & Temperature, MOS (in-school program)
4th grade
- Field trip to Tsongas Industrial History Center
- Field trips to the Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Museum of Science Traveling Program: Motion, Forces, & Energy (in-school)
The Butler PTA funds teachers’ instructional expenses, textbooks, and library books as well as Principal's Curriculum Priorities including Chrome books.