February is ‘Black History Month’ and at Trafford and Level Green Elementary Schools, students are learning about the lives, work, and influence of Black Americans on U.S. history and culture.
In Music classes, Mrs. Thompson is teaching students how songs like “Follow the Drinking Gourd” played a role in helping slaves escape to freedom. During Art lessons, Mrs. Christoforetti’s students are learning how quilts were made to preserve slaves' memories and how they may have contained coded messages to assist slaves to make their escape.
Level Green 5th graders Aiden Crawford, Maddox Abbott-Foreback, Miles Johnson, Nathan Goldberg, Antonio Caruso, Sloan Simpson, and Jackson Carr create a collage quilt using grids
Level Green 5th-graders show off their Freedom quilts
Level Green 4th-graders Izabel Stinson and Ashlyn Maga create their quilts
Level Green 4th-graders show their quilt codes
Layla Van Dyke