Caine's Arcade!

We watched Caine's Arcade last week.  The movie is about ten minutes long and tells the story of nine year old Caine, who spends his entire summer building a cardboard arcade in the front office of his dad's used car parts store Los Angeles.  Although Caine has only one customer all summer, he never gives up and continues to add arcade games that he built.  This movie was connected to our yearlong study about ourselves - what we all have in common and what is different about us.   

I won't ruin the story, but Caine gives us a tremendous lesson about a characteristic that helps us do well in school and life: perseverance.   Other lessons included are examples of the power of play, and the success you might obtain by following your dreams.  

Here is the link:http://cainesarcade.com/ 

This is one of our first graders who built his own arcade game after watching Caine's arcade.  He has built four games so far and has made $7.00 on games.