Future Olympians in Training
Mrs. Schiska’s seventh-grade geography class is currently having a curling match in the game room.
The students prepared for this competition by making the equipment needed for the game. They made their curling sticks out of a piece of wood with a paintbrush taped to the end. They replaced a curling stone with lids to Mason jars. They also made the target by hand. It was ghetto, but fun — Connor Cox
The goal is to slide their lids across the floor onto a circular target. The team with the most points total will win.
Performing this sport shows the students how hard the Olympians work to become successful.
“It was ghetto, but fun,” Connor Cox, seventh grader, said.
“Because the Olympics were set in South Korea this year, I decided to use the sport of curling as a catalyst to do cross-curriculum with English as well as a study on the current political situation in the Koreas. Students picked their own groups and were assigned Western European countries for an in-depth study. Because curling is not familiar to the students, it was an equalizer for curling competition, which held their interest in “their country,” Mrs. Schiska said.
Maybe one day we will have students from Canton, Oklahoma participate in the Olympics and bring home the gold.
The Claw will stay updated on the curling competition.
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Definitely Not Luke • Mar 1, 2018 at 10:26 am
I agree with Connor.