Our fifth graders are gearing up for their Restaurant Disaster Challenge! Before diving into the chaos, students are taking a closer look at their personal strengths, areas for growth, and the important skills needed to work successfully as a team. Using what they've learned about themselves through our personality and Johari Window activities, students are exploring which restaurant roles might be a good fit and which ones might push them outside their comfort zones. Through this experience, students will discover that running a successful restaurant takes more than just one person's strengths—it requires communication, leadership, flexibility, problem-solving, and teamwork! Let the restaurant adventures begin!
Our fifth graders are taking a deeper look at who they are and how others see them through the completion of a Johari Window. Students are reflecting on their own strengths and characteristics while also receiving feedback from their peers. This experience helps students recognize that how we see ourselves may not always match how others see us, building greater self-awareness, understanding, and confidence as they continue to grow.
Our fifth-grade Challenge students kicked off the year with a hands-on experience designed to explore an important idea: we may be working toward the same goal, but we don't always have the same tools to get there.
Students recreated the same artwork using oil pastels—but each student had different rules that affected the tools and resources available to them. Through this experience, students explored equity, empathy, assumptions, and access, discovering that the same goal does not always mean the same journey.
This activity sets the foundation for our Challenge community: appreciating differences, recognizing the strengths others bring, and seeking to understand before we judge.