The last Olympic game from yesterday was the Newspaper Race. Each student was given 2 sections of paper. They could only step on the paper to move all the way down court. If they touched the gym floor they had to start over. We did this in two rounds and then had the 1st and 2nd place winners from those … Read More

Our second Olympic game yesterday was the Hula-Hoop Roll. We did this in two rounds and then the two 1st place winners and 2nd place winners had to compete for the top spots. Source

Yesterday was day 3 of our Olympics. This was our robotics team day with two younger students that are joining us now. First was our bean bag toss. This one we did a little differently than we did outside the day before, and it worked a lot better. The students each had 6 bags. They could toss it into the … Read More

Here’s Olympics Day 2, this time with 3rd-5th grades. We did the Bean Bag Race, Torch Relay, and Discus Throw. Source

Here’s Afterschool Olympics day 1. The students competed in the bean bag toss, torch relay (cone with a ball on top), egg carry, badminton, and discus throw. The students earn points based on how they finish–1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 5, and 3rd gets 3. We will total the points after the two weeks and give out awards … Read More

For Fun Friday, we went outside first thing while we had our snack, enjoyed the beautiful weather. Then we came back inside for a science lesson (pictures of that to be posted later) and we discussed the upcoming Summer Olympics. The students then helped make Olympic medals for the Afterschool Olympics starting this week. Source

Here’s yesterday’s Robotics Team in action. Source

Here are the 3rd-5th grade students doing crafts on Tuesday. This is a multi-day activity. Can’t wait to see the finished masterpieces! Source

For Monday’s Legos lesson, Ms. Jessica taught about dams. The students made one out of their Legos, then they tested how well it worked by pouring water on it. Source

Robotics team in action Source