Clubs & Activities
Band and Orchestra
Fourth and Fifth graders who are interested in playing an instrument are encouraged to join band (woodwind, brass, percussion) or orchestra (strings) starting in the fall of each year.
Speech Tournament
The Deerfield Speech Tournament provides early opportunities for students to develop oral communications skills. Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 have an opportunity to perform a published piece or give a speech written by the student. The students are critiqued on their expression, memory, and interpretation.
Chorus
Led by Walden’s instructional music teacher, chorus is a club for 4th through 5th grade students who like to sing.
Geography Bee
Students in 4th and 5th grade “compete” to test their knowledge in national and world geography.
The Walden 2023 spelling bee
Mr. Schwartz and a few students visited classrooms and performed holiday pop-up concerts
Destination Imagination
Led by Walden teachers, Destination Imagination centers around teamwork, creativity, and problem solving. DI is open to 4th and 5th graders. DI begins in October and runs through February, meeting once a week during the lunch hour. DI is team based, so teams also meet on their own to complete the team project.
Young Authors' Conference
The Young Authors’ Conference, held each year in May at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, is an event sponsored by the Illinois Language and Literacy Council, in conjunction with the Illinois Reading Council. Designed as a celebration to honor exceptional writing by students in grades K through 8, the conference provides an opportunity for these young writers to meet published authors and to hear how the authors themselves create the characters and stories that have become their books.