STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 10

A great week for creative expression in the STEAM lab!

K-2 were all about Robo-retells this week! BeeBots and OZOBOTS were the zipping around student-made story maps for The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns and P. D. Eastman’s Are You My Mother? Students also put in some time on a little Pair Programming in their Code.org courses.

3^rd - 5^th grade had practice sessions for the Bebras Critical Thinking Challenge, so every day brought a new group to the lab except for Wednesday. For Halloween the STEAM Lab classes worked in Scratch creating spooky games and animations!

K-2 Name That Book Club is making rapid progress with their book list; lead readers finished their 17^th book before everyone headed out for their Friday Book Buddy read-aloud.

Monarch Heroes have reached the ½ point towards their fall Monarch Money goal and will start painting their new garden beds next week.

Next week 3^rd – 5^th will be cycling through again, this time to participate in the actual Bebras Challenge! Good luck, Panthers!

STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 9

It was a big week for Arts Education at Piney Point!

The Alley Theatre brought their show Oskar and the Big Bully Battle to the whole school on Monday, Kinder and 1^st grade attended a Musiqa performance at the Hobby Center and 4^th grade had their second meeting with their Arts Partners from MET Dance.

In the STEAM Lab we started a new rotation that focuses on integrating literature. The primary students read the Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns and made their own BeeBot mats to practice retelling the story. The 3^rd grade broke into groups based on their choice of story and created literal story maps for their Robo-retells! They used the OZOBOTS to retell stories from Chris Van Allsburg and Eric Carle.

Students continue to work towards their programming goals in Code.org; the 5^th grade in particular made really outstanding progress this week!

Next week 3^rd-5^th grade will be working through the practice session for the Bebras Critical Thinking challenge!