Thursday, October 11, 2012

Chess Club

Our school has a chess club that is available for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders.  To be considered you have to write a letter to the counselor stating why you want to be in the club, what you expect to get out of it etc.

A man who volunteers with our school system comes in to teach the kids how to play and he applies a life lesson to the game of chess during each meeting.  It is fabulous.

They accept 30 kids into the program.  It is based on when you turn your letter in.  Well this year they had over 80 kids that wanted to participate.

Well they ended up accepting 48 kids.  They arranged the purchase of more chess boards but had to stop at 48 because of the seating in the library and that was all they could hold.


Ladybug made the cut.



Here she is with her acceptance letter and we are headed off to school 50 minutes early for club time. 

She was very excited. 

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