Our schools electives

At our school, Underwood Elementary, we unlike many schools have electives. Each student has 2 electives and we get different ones for each quarter of the year. We have so many some of our electives are dance varieties, band and strings, which are both year round.  We also have art, music,  musical theatre and acting. But not all electives are arts.  Some are robotics, computer coding, library learning, history, math, and reading and writing.  I think that having electives is very important to the environment of the school and helping students really find out what they love and like. It helps them to know what their gifts and talents are. When students come in for kindergarten they don't know what their gifts and talents are. They know the things they want to do and the things they like but It's not until they try things out before they know what they love, which is usually different than what they have done in the past. And when they try electives it gives them an easier path to target what they love.