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Fourth Grade Art Club: meets in the fall and ends just before winter break on Wednesday mornings. Students work with clay, wood, glaze, paint, plastic and a variety of additional materials.
Fifth and Sixth Grade: Journal as an art form meets Wednesday mornings from January through March. For each session, students are introduced to a new writing, drawing or painting technique. Students are given their own sketchbooks and practice the technique.
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Chess Club is the place to be Wednesdays from 7:30-8:25 a.m. The club offers instruction and tournament competition from September through June. About a dozen parents are needed to help supervise and instruct more than 100 Grade K5-6 students, who learn chess rules, terminology, tactics, strategy, chess patterns, etiquette and a number of tournament formats. Elmwood is the host site for an inter-school tournament and the Elmwood Chess Club is an affiliate club of the U.S. Chess Federation. Many Elmwood players have national rankings. Contact coach Randy Bubolz at rbubolz@wi.rr.com for more information. New player information can be found HERE.
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All fourth, fifth and sixth grade students who would like the opportunity to do some extra singing are invited to join choir. The choir meets Tuesday mornings before school throughout the year. We focus on singing and perform two concerts. Contact music teacher Ms. Nehm with questions.
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Coding Club is an opportunity for students in kindergarten through sixth grade to being or continue practicing coding, coached by Ms. Karolek. Students will be introduced to various coding apps and websites. They will also have the opportunity to code Elmwood's robots. Coding Club meets Tuesday mornings beginning in January. Students will be grouped into sessions based on grade level: K-1, 2-3 and 4-6. Sessions vary in length depending on grade level and on the number of students participating.
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Fifth and sixth grade students have the opportunity to produce our school-wide, live-stream, morning broadcast: the Elmwood Today Show. Crew members will gain technical skills, learn to collaborate as a team, and develop confidence and composure when speaking to an audience. Students make a two-week commitment and must have the ability to arrive early (prior to the start of the school day) for the duration of their session.
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Girls on the Run is a 10-week program, meeting after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:35-5 p.m. It is for girls in grades 3-5 and fosters confident, competent and caring young girls through physical activity and lessons focused on findings their inner strength through positive emotional, social, physical and mental development. The season concludes with a 5K at Miller Park.
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Are you interested in helping our classrooms, school and community become more environmentally friendly? If so, the Green Team needs you! The Green Team is a group of dedicated 4th-6th graders who work to make our environment better by encouraging recycling and upcycling. The group meets every other Friday morning, as teams work on projects they are passionate about. We also practice upcycling by creating fun crafts with recycled materials. Please contact the school for more information.
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H2H is a student leadership team that will train fourth, fifth and sixth graders to be experts in different areas of technology. You will be learning through a hands-on experience to support students and teachers in the building with technology. Meetings will be Tuesday mornings.
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Lovers of literature, Lion Cub Book Club, under the tutelage of Ms. C., is where you want to be. As a group, you will choose a book, read voraciously, learn roles to analyze and understand books at a deeper level and discuss your ideas with other book lovers. It is available to fourth graders starting in third quarter. Meetings are every other Monday in Room 409.
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Do you enjoy singing, dance, acting, painting or building? Each spring, fourth, fifth and sixth graders have the opportunity to participate in the musical. You can choose to participate by actor or actress, singing and dancing on stage. Or you can put your painting and building skills to use and join stage crew. All practices are after school in January through March, with a performance at the end of March. Contact music teacher Ms. Nehm, with questions.
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Robotics Coding Club is offered on Tuesday mornings in the spring. Fourth and fifth grade students who would consider joining the Robotics Club, along with current fifth and sixth grade robotics team members, are encouraged to participate. Students in Robotics Coding Club code robots using LEGO Mindstorms. Students will have the opportunity to build robots and write code using previous FIRST LEGO League maps and challenges.
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Fifth and sixth grade students can join the Robotics Club and participate in FIRST LEGO League. Every year, FIRST LEGO League releases a challenge, which is based on a real-world, scientific topic. Each challenge has three parts: the Robot Game, the Innovation Project and the Core Values. Teams of up to 10 children participate in the challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points. Participants are exposed to potential career paths within a chosen challenge topic, in addition to solidifying STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) principles.
Elmwood's robotics teams are coached by Mrs. Dodd, Mr. Dodd and Ms. Karolek, along with high school mentors from the New Berlin BLITZ team. Teams are limited to a maximum of 10 students. Applications are available over the summer and due in late August. There is a fee to participate. Practices are held after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from September through regional events in November and December.
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Speed Stacking Club is open to students in grades 1-6. Speed Stacks are specially designed sport stacking cups that students stack in a multitude of ways as fast as they possibly can. Sport stacking promotes hand-eye coordination, ambidexterity, focus, reaction time, and exercises both sides of the brain at the same time. All students start on a level playing field and being athletic does not help out in this activity. The key to this sport is simply practice.
Speed Stacking Club meets Monday mornings at 7:45 a.m. in the gym for 6 weeks. No equipment is needed to join; we supply the cups.
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Do you have great ideas to promote school spirit? Are you interested in helping others in our community and our world? If so, you are perfect for Elmwood's Student Leadership Team! We are looking for respectful and responsible fourth, fifth and sixth graders who will positively model our school beliefs as Student Leadership Team representatives. Members will meet to plan special spirit days, coordinate community projects and decide how we can help make our school a better place to learn and grow.
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