Third Grade Teamwork

A large focus of third-grade for the first few days of school was teamwork. Each teacher had lessons in their classrooms that required students to work together to solve problems. One of those lessons was Save Fred. Students had to work together only using 4 paper clips to get a gummy worm off the top of a cup, pulled through a life-saver, and then put inside of the cup.

                      

The third-grade teachers finished the week by pulling all the third-grade students together for two large team building activities. In the first exercise students stood on sheets that they pretended were magic carpets that were taking them on an adventure. The objective of the activity was to turn the sheets over without stepping off the sheets. It was amazing to see how well they worked together.

The students also had a chance to pretend to be first-mates on a large ship. They had to work together to follow orders and practice their listening skills.