Extracurriculars

5th grade: Students create artwork for campus and individual projects; in addition we occasionally participate in community (local, city, district, state, and national) projects and competitions supporting the arts and creativity.  We explore projects using sketchbook exercises, reverse tie-dye shirts, friendship bracelets, sidewalk chalk, Shrinky Dinks, clay, 3D pens, painting, and more!

2nd Grade - Students work in pairs to design arcade-type games.  They will think through game design, strategies for success, rules, and prize systems.  They will run their games at a campus-wide family event.

Grades:  4th and 5th Grade

The Longhorn Chorale performs a Christmas Musical in December and in Evening of the Arts.  We also participate in the Helotes’ Lighting of the Lights.

Students will work together as a team to solve Minecraft Education Challenges and build designs with parameters.

Kinder and 1st Grade - Students learn about designing and testing kites, parachutes, paper airplanes and/or rockets.

Grades:  4th & 5th

Students will work as writers, editors, photographers, illustrators, and graphic design artists to publish a periodic school newsletter, items for the annual yearbook, and segments for the morning announcements.

Grades:  5th Grade

Students record and assist the sponsor in producing the daily morning announcements.  All members rotate through the rolls of anchor, camera crew, writing scripts, selecting backgrounds, conducting interviews, and more.  Tryouts are held the last two months of 4th grade and an additional tryout is available for new incoming 5th graders at the beginning of the year. 

Grades:  3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade

Students will learn various gardening lessons about planting, pollinators, birding, composting, harvesting, cooking, and much more.  They will also spend time each club meeting watering, weeding, harvesting, etc. in the garden.  There will be scheduled garden work days one Saturday each semester, a Saturday morning field trip, and we will participate in a showcase at O’Connor high school in May.

Grades:  4th and 5th 

It involves a research project as well as Lego Robot build, design, and coding.

*Robotics is available from October to February*

Grades: 4th and 5th 

Meets:  

If your child enjoys building things, figuring out how something works and likes working with their hands, then Solar Cars is the club for them.  In this club students will build a solar-powered car from scratch and race their car with teams from other NISD elementary schools at the Annual NISD Solar Car Races.  Only 12 students can be a part of Solar Cars, so a drawing is held to determine who will participate. This club is for fourth and fifth grade students. The tuition for this club is $35.00.

3rd Grade - Students will use the engineering design process to create Rube Goldberg machines.  Each project will use a combination of simple machines:  pulley, wheel and axle, level, and inclined plane.  They will also have a goal and parameters (i.e. pop a balloon in 5 steps).  Students will present their machines at a campus-wide family event.

Grades: 3rd, 4th, & 5th 

Each class has 2 representatives that created a speech and presented it to the class. These representatives meet to discuss how they can help around the school. Students participate in various events including fundraisers, volunteer opportunities around the school, and community service/outreach.

Grades:  3rd thru 5th grade.  Students meet to learn about how to make yarn and create cloth.  They learn to use a knitting loom, a crochet hook, and rigid heddle.

Grades:  4th and 5th

Students learn from a space-science related curriculum based on Astronauts at Work.  Students will conduct research on current astronauts, living in space, design a space suit, design a crew patch, participate in a spacewalk challenge, train like an astronaut, participate in a space lab science experiment, design a spacecraft, and more.