Saturday, January 27, 2018

Olympics Cross Curricular

Today at Wattsburg Elementary, the special area teachers (physical education, library, art, and music) collaborated to create 3 stations focused on the OLYMPICS!  Students rotated through each station.  The students spent about 15 minutes at each station.

At the literarcy/music station, students read the book "Olympics" by BG Hennessey.  Then students learned about the national anthem and the open ceremony music.  Finally, students "marched" or "paraded" around the auditorium to the opening ceremony music!

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The second station that students went to was physical education.  Students learned about speed skating, the color/metal of each medal, and the podium stand.  Students got to take turns in heats doing "speed skating".  Each student took two rectangular "carpet" square pieces, turned them carpet side down, and stood on the back of the carpet pieces.   Students then attempted to skate around the gym in a large "circle".  The top two times in each heat were recorded.  Then the top 3 students in each home room were awarded "medals" made out of paper and string.  Finally, these award winning students stood on the podium for a picture!

The third station was art station.  The students learned about the 5 rings, the colors, and the history behind them.  Then students got time to color the following olympics graphic as well as the rings!


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