I
am a 3rd grade teacher and have approximately 20 students. Every
semester we like to do a class project of some sort. Last year
our first project was focused around pollution and what it is
doing to our earth. The second project of the year was an art
project and the kids either did drawings, paintings or paper
mache projects. This year I wanted to do something that the
kids could somehow incorporate into the school carnival. I came
up with pinewood cars. I told my students about the project
and they thought it was cool. We decided that after the cars
were all built we would hold the first ever "Pinewood
Derby" of the school.
The
first thing I did to get things started was to get wood from
the woodshop teacher at the high school. I then needed some
instructions on how to build the cars. I looked on the Internet
and found Pinewood Pro .
You have a book called Pinewood Derby in
Six Easy Steps. I ordered enough books for all my students.
As a special gift I also
ordered your car blocks for
each child. I then invited the parents to get involved. Our
parent volunteers came to school on Wednesday and Friday's which
are our project days. Before I knew it the derby cars were built.
The
school carnival was finally here. We had several volunteers that
got the children set up for the race. We had two divisions, one
for boys and one for girls. Then we would take the champion from
each division and have a grand champion race. It was an exciting
time and it was even more exciting when a girl took the Grand
Prize. The boys were furious but said they want this to be an
annual event and get more classrooms involved so they could have
a chance at winning next year. I suspect the winner used your
groved axles but she won't tell.
