Trimester 2 is off and running!!

Hi friends,

Trimester 2 is off to a glorious start. Third and fifth graders started trimester 2 off by first practicing how to effectively cooperate in a group. Cooperation is so important for engineers, because they rarely work alone, and their designs are always enhanced by collaboration with other engineers. To practice cooperation, the students were given a challenge game called----Cooperative Cups! Cooperative cups is one of my favorite cooperation games, because it is fun, challenging, and really forces the kids to work together in unison. The kids worked in groups of 3-5 to stack a 10 cups into a tower using only a rubber band with strings attached. The rules are to pick up the cups only using their string tool, The kids could use their hands only if a cup fell over on its side or on top of another cup. After they stacked 10 cups, I gave the groups 11 more cups to make an even larger tower. Many children claimed this challenge was impossible, but once they got their flow and rhythm down as a united team, it became a lot easier. This exercise was as much about perseverance and not giving up as it was cooperation,
Check out their success below!

-Mrs. A