LME's Top Ten Lists

Children come to school to learn about the world. They also come to school to learn about themselves. Laurel Mountain is committed to helping students develop an understanding of their own interests and talents. Our ultimate goal is to help children develop interests and understand how they can share their talents with the world.

The interest surveys help our teachers focus on their students’ interests, learning more about them as individuals and as a class. This, in turn, helps build classroom relationships we value at Laurel Mountain. Knowledge from the interest surveys also guides the enrichment clusters and E-slot activities on Friday mornings.

At the beginning of the school year, each student completed an interest survey in which they were asked to select their top five to ten interests. The K/1st grade survey consists of 19 different pictures, ranging from pets to outer space. The 2nd/3rd grade survey has 77 different categories while the 4th/5th grade survey has129 categories. The number of categories increases as children get older and are exposed to new experiences and information.

Following are the survey results by grade level. The number following the topic are the number of students who selected that interest from the interest survey. Continuing to develop the whole child.

Kindergarten Top 6 Interests
Computers - 53
Pets - 48
LEGOs - 47
Cooking - 47
Puzzles and Games - 38
Rocks and Minerals - 38

1st Grade Top 5 Interests
Arts and crafts - 51
Science - 49
Computers - 41
Pets - 41
Cooking – 40

2nd Grade Top 10 Interests
LEGO building - 60
Pets - 48
Arts and Crafts - 46
Magic - 43
Playing games - 37
Playing sports - 37
Cooking - 36
Robotics - 34
Pottery - 32
Painting – 30

3rd Grade Top 11 Interests
Magic - 55
LEGO building - 52
Robotics - 45
Cooking - 40
Playing games - 38
Pottery - 37
Arts and crafts - 35
Playing sports - 33
Pets - 29
Dinosaurs and fossils – 28
Claymation - 28

4th Grade Top 10 Interests
LEGO building - 56
Playing games - 40
Cooking - 40
Robotics - 38
Pets - 33
Movie making - 33
Magic - 33
Arts and crafts - 33
Wild animals - 31
The future – 30

5th Grade Top 11 Interests
Robotics - 41
Cooking - 35
Creating websites - 34
Pottery - 30
LEGO building - 30
Pets - 28
Animation on the computer - 28
Monsters and mysteries - 27
Wild animals - 26
Acting - 23
Playing sports - 23