The South Carolina Academy of Science declared Oct. 8-12 as Metric Week. To celebrate the special observance, the second and third graders at The Village

School of Gaffney participate in a Metric Olympics.

On Wednesday, Oct. 11, they moved their math lessons outside and participated in five Olympic events. They had to measure all the results in metric units. The events were the right-handed marble grab, the cotton ball shotput, the paper plate discus, the plastic straw javelin, and the big foot measure.

Students record their metric results in the Big Foot Measure (top photo) while Morrison Trnavsky and Marley Spencer (right) participate in the paper plate discus. Anna Morgan, Alexis Miller (top photo), Ben Karriker, Taylor Addis and Reid Geary (bottom photo) demonstrate the right-handed marble grab. Caleb Tanner and Ashton Childers participate in the cotton ball shotput. Nelson Gothard and some of his classmates experiment with the plastic straw javelin.