Passport Club All grades can join!End of month check-ins at lunchtime(11am-12:30pm) at school.First check-in will be October.Register start: September 16, 2024Annual Registration: (closed)Start Date: Oct 1st, 2024End Date: May 30,2025Chair: Camille Brockett-LanierImportant: All Participating students and their parents must be PTSA members to enroll in program. Sign up to be a PTSA member here, or the student may lose their registration spot. Overview Are you interested in Geography? Would you like your children to learn the countries of the world? The Passport Club at Cherry Crest offers a multi-year introduction to world Geography. Enrollment If you are interested in having your children participate in the Passport Club, please register here. (If you already registered via Camille’s email, please spend a few minutes to register online, so it will be easier for further notification with classroom teacher and Parents. Questions or need more info? email passportclub@cherrycrest-ptsa.org Monthly Checkpoints Checkpoints occur about once a month on Fridays starting in December. Passport Club is a lunchtime club, so kids never miss out.Volunteer is needed to setup success for each checkpoint. Please sign up volunteer for Passport club at Link. Passport Club BackgroundThe Passport Club, a nonprofit organization, is an individualized, sequential geography program for schools. Its main purpose is to help students learn some, or all of the world, countries over the course of a school year while promoting strong parent involvement in the school.The program uses postage stamps as a valuable educational tool for teachers, and an interesting and enjoyable hobby for students.The Passport Club at Cherry Crest has been running for several years, run solely by parent volunteers. This program is setting an atmosphere in our school of a generation of young people who are interested not only in our community but in the rest of the world. Most importantly, it is your support at home that makes this program work.Students new to the program should start at level one, where they will learn forty countries and seven continents by the end of the school year.As students advance to level five, they will learn all of the world countries plus forty capital cities, the continents, oceans seas, deserts and mountain ranges!This program is intended to be a multi-year program to help students maintain a solid working knowledge of what they have learned and build upon it it year. The recommended participation level for students should match their current grade level. (i.e. a first grader should participate at the first grade level).Explanation of LevelsLevel 1: We encourage our Kindergartners and first graders to participate at this level, where they will focus on learning five levels a month, eventually memorizing forty countries.Level 2: This level expands level one to eighty countries, plus the three great oceans.Level 3: Level 3 adds lesser known countries and island groupings and includes the continents, plus four oceans, two seas, the equator and the prime meridian.Level 4: At this very challenging expert level the student will learn all the world countries by end of the school year! Twenty-five countries are learned each month. In addition, they learn the continents, oceans, seas, bays, gulfs, Oceania, the equator and the prime meridian.Level 5: This is the highest level. It is the level where they really start to explore what they have learned. Students learn the capitals of all the major countries learned in level one and also memorize deserts and mountain ranges. CHECKPOINT DATES October 25th November 29th (wind storm) December 20th (Nov and Dec) January 3rd January 31st March 28th April 30th May 30th MATERIALSStudy materials will be made available upon registration. CHECKPOINTSCheckpoints will be performed in-person during the school day by a volunteer on the date of checking. MATERIAL EXPLAINEDThe Map Study Guides and Forms Maps are copyrighted material that the Cherry Crest PTSA Curriculum enhancement fund pays for. These materials are only visible to users of this site who have completed registration.Materials should not be shared with others outside of Cherry Crest Elementary.
