Your Support Matters

Your Annual Fund donations truly make a difference at Vinson-Owen! Below is a sample of the wonderful and worthy programs and activities we've done over the years, thanks to your contributions.

 

Wright-Locke Farm

Kindergarten sample enrichment

  • Curious Creatures

  • Discovery Museum: Lights and Colors; Magnets

  • Matt Wilhelm SEL

  • New England Aquarium Touch Tanks

  • Wright Locke Farm

 

First grade sample enrichment

  • Curious Creatures

  • Discovery Museum - Light & Sound

  • Drumlin Farm

  • Mass Audobon Life Under a Log

  • Matt Wilhelm SEL

  • NE England Aquarium Touch Tanks

  • Wright-Locke Farm

Acton Discovery Museum

 

Lexington Symphony Orchestra

Second grade sample enrichment

  • Discovery Museum - Physical Changes of Matter (i]In-school program)

  • Emigration / Immigration 

  • Joppa Flats

  • Lexington Symphony

  • Matt Wilhelm SEL

  • Odaiko Drummers

 

Third grade sample enrichment

  • Atmospheric Scientist

  • Discovery Museum - Force & Magnetism

  • Mass Audobon: Lifecycles: Frogs & Beyond

  • Matt Wilhelm SEL

  • Meteorologist Visit

  • Museum of Science: Extreme Weather IMAX Movie

  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums

Planatarium at the Museum of Science

 

Mass Audubon

Fourth grade sample enrichment

  • Discovery Museum: Sound Waves

  • Lowell Mills "Engineer It!" 

  • Lowell Mills "Yankees & Immigration" 

  • Matt Wilhelm SEL

  • U.S. National Parks Pass

 

Fifth grade sample enrichment

  • Discovery Museum: Electromagnetism

  • Discovery Museum: Physical Changes in Matter 2

  • Historic NE: A Revolution in Dorchester

  • Magnificent Mayans

  • Matt Wilhelm: SEL

  • MFA Sumi Painting

  • Minuteman National Park Road to Rebels, Redcoats, & Homespun Heroes

  • Peabody Museum at Harvard

  • Project Adventure (in conjunction with 5th Grade Committee)

Thanksgiving baskets

 

Additional ways your contributions help

  • Field Trip Transportation

  • Staff Hospitality

  • V-O on Skates

  • Field Day

  • Jr. Authorfest