Woodworking

In woodworking, children acquire skills with a range of tools and create musical instruments, mazes and constructions with moving parts. In Second Grade students make vehicles with moving parts as well as simple stringed instruments. They continue to extend their skills with carpentry tools. In Third Grade woodworking, the children make “useful objects,” relying on their skills in planning, measuring, sawing and hammering. Fourth Graders develop their coping and cross cut saw skills. They experiment with ways to make hinges and types of wood joinery, and learn how to use mallets and chisels. Students carve Peruvian animals and chisel “pathways”.