Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Academic Extracurricular Activities

The Resource Room sponsors several extracurricular activities.  These are the activities that have or will soon begin.

Young Rembrandt's Art Classes--Every Thursday, a group of students in grades 1-4 meet for the class "Dazzling Cartoons".  This class meets eight times and has been producing some fabulous artwork.

Junior High Math Team--Nine dedicated mathematicians in grades 7-8 have started preparing for the Math Counts competition this winter.  There is still room so if your child would like to join, let me know.

Fifth Grade Math Masters--This group is gearing up to begin meeting before school beginning October 23.  They will compete in the regional competition in April and also have some fun meets with other Catholic schools at Saint Ambrose in Woodbury.  There is still room to join this group as well.

Destination Imagination--Teams have been formed  in grades 3-8 and will begin meeting in the next few weeks to begin working on picking and solving their challenges.  I love this program since the students do all the problem solving and creating of the solutions.

Battle of the Books--Students in grades 5-8 have had their first lunch-time meeting to peruse the ten titles for this year's competition.  The books are flying off the shelf and we have a record number of participants with more students joining daily.  Way to read!