Field Trips: Learning Beyond Our Walls

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Our students experience and connect to the world around them through numerous field trips that are important elements of the instructional program. Field trips allow students to live the curriculum that they study and bond with one another and their teachers.

Examples of Brawerman field trips:

  • 6th Grade – Theatricum Botanicum, Museum of Tolerance, St. Joseph Center, Camp Hess Kramer

  • 5th Grade – Riley’s Farm, Aiden’s Place, Banneker Learning Center, Camp Hess Kramer

  • 4th Grade – Chumash Interpretive Center, LA Jewish Symphony, Leonis Adobe, San Fernando Mission, Huntington Gallery, PATH, Camp Hess Kramer

  • 3rd Grade – Tumbleweed Outdoor Education, Union Station, Olvera Street, Beverly Hills Library, Camp Hess Kramer
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  • 2nd Grade – Museum of Tolerance, Israel Levin Center, Camp Hess Kramer

  • 1st Grade – Aquarium of the Pacific, Camp Hess Kramer

  • Kindergarten – Tree People, Camp Hess Kramer



Overnight Experiences (Grades 4, 5 or 6):

  • Hilltop Camp – Grades 4, 5 and 6

  • Sacramento – Grade 4

  • Ocean Institute – Before the Mast - Grade 5

  • Headlands Institute – Grade 6

  • Israel (Kesher Program) – Grade 6



Guest Speakers and Programs:

  • Authors - Jim Jennewein, Tom Parker, Sonia Levitin and Cornelia Funke

  • Internet Safety – Lori Getz

  • I Question America (Fannie Lou Hamer) - EP McKnight

  • Jacques Thibaud String Trio

  • Green Architect – David Hertz

  • Scientist – Conrad Foster

  • Career Day - Larry Scarpa, Richard Katz, Jackie Edwards and Jorge Salcedo

  • Reptile Farm