Chess Club
Be on the look out for the Chess club paperwork. This club fills up fast. So get your paperwork in ASAP.
Chess is an exercise of infinite possibilities for the mind, one which develops mental abilities used throughout life: concentration, critical thinking, abstract reasoning, problem solving, pattern recognition, strategic planning, creativity, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, to name a few. Chess can be used very effectively as a tool to teach problem solving and abstract reasoning. Learning how to solve a problem is more important than learning the solution to any particular problem.
Importance of Chess in Education
Meets once a week after school for 1.5 hours and has two chess tournaments thru ought the year.
Mr. Hoffman donates his time to after school to give our children this wonderful resource in life. The money from registration goes to supplies,snacks,awards, a shirt and a end of year party.