Before spring break, Lower School students had a blast tie-dying SMS headbands, making sensory dough, creating bird treats, and many other activities during the annual Maker Fair. A tradition in its eighth year, the Maker Fair is a large-scale show-and-tell event where students teach each other how to create something.
For the Maker Fair, Lower School teachers develop creative activities related to science, technology, crafting, or the arts. Second-fifth grade students participate in a training day where they learn how to do an assigned activity, help prep the supplies, and develop training steps and materials.
On the day of the Maker Fair, the students serve as activity leaders, showing the other students how to complete the activity. After a session as a student leader, the girls explore the other stations with first grade students.
The Maker Fair offers an opportunity for students to explore, create, learn, and lead, while working together to complete fun and challenging activities.
- Lower School
