• May. 28, 2007 - Awards Dinner and Chess Tournament
This past weekend was our Awards Dinner and our first annual Chess Tournament.
Those receiving awards were as follows:
Matt L.: Chess Strategies
Isaiah: Physical Fitness
Matt S.: Art
Isaac: Physical Fitness
Janie: Home Economics & Perfect Attendance
Gunnar: Science
Reese: Literature (Reese learned to read this year!)
Noah: Music
We also had a chess tournament as that was one of our big unit studies this year. Every child learned to play chess, and even the children with learning disabilities were able to master the moves. Now all they have to do is practice to learn strategy and I am amazed at how many of them are learning to think several moves ahead! It's truly amazing to watch.
We used these materials to learn:
The kids loved the songs on this CD! And with the coloring book, even the youngest students and those with disabilities were able to learn chess.
These were are main resources. It is a book called Chess Basics by Stephen A. Schneider as well as a DVD (this picture shows a video, but it comes in DVD). What an excellent resource!! I highly recommend it.
The winners of the 2007 LCA chess tournament:
Left to right: Matt, 10th grade, 1st place;
Noah, 10th grade, 2nd place;
Gunnar, 3rd grade, 3rd place.
Congratulations to our winners! I am so proud of them!
We purchased a new tournament chess set for each student. I love these sets! I am going to get one for myself eventually even though all three of my boys have them. They are really nice. You can get them at http://wholesalechess.com. Each student also got a medal for completing the course.
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