Kindergarten:  Students have been working on fine motor skills through a variety of stations and activities.  They are using hole punches, practicing cutting different shapes, writing letters in rice, and building numbers using magnatiles.

First Grade:  Students have been challenged with creating the longest paper chain using only one piece of paper.  Students love incorporating a book into a challenge, so we have read Pete the Cat Goes Camping and students have been challenged with building a "tent" using different materials such as sticks, paper, toothpicks and tissue paper.  As students haven been learning about positive classroom choices, they have to build a model using cardboard and paper to display one of the choices they learned about.

Second Grade:  Since back-to-school means lots of opportunity to read a good book, the second graders have been challenged to build a platform that can hold the most books using only one piece of paper.  Teachers love apples, so the second graders had to try to build the tallest tower that could hold an apple.  We tried to beat the heat by building a boat using either one piece of paper or once piece of aluminum foil.  Students then counted how many cubes their boats could hold before sinking.