STEAM lab 2018-19 week 4

Students did a great job in their first visit to the STEAM lab this week!

The lab hosted:

Ms. Almanza’s Kindergarten, who learned how to use the laptops and were introduced to Code.org

Ms. Montoya’s 1^st grade, who finished their Monarch Hero wings and make great progress in their coding course

Ms. Lugo’s 2^nd grade, who started Course C in Code.org and made posters for recycling! Our 2^nd grade team sent classroom artists to make door reminders and start work on hallway posters made from reused materials. They kicked off schoolwide recycling this week!

Ms. Roesch’s 3^rd grade, Mr. Torres’ 4^th grade, and Ms. Guzman’s 5^th grade almost immediately mastered all the new lab procedures and tools! They jumped straight into Code.org, and found that the class assignment hyperdoc, goal setting padlet, and Classroom Q gave them a lot more control over their own learning experience!

During G/T Genius hour:

 Ms. Massey’s class wrapped up their Scratch projects, and started work on their display objects – I can’t wait to see their interactive research projects! Ms. Grimaldo & Ms. Martinez’s 4^th graders started work on their “Poetree”. They learned about Haiku and then wrote their own about trees on paper leaves. They ground up old crayons to make wax paper fall foliage to showcase their poems.

Looking forward to week 5!

STEAM Lab 2018-19 week 3

We had to cram 5 days of learning, making, collaborating, and problem solving into just four days again this week, but our Panthers were up to the challenge! 

This week the lab hosted:

Ms. Allende’s Kinder Green Heroes learned all about the problems they face keeping Piney Point green and started working on solutions. They learned to log in to their Code.org class with their partners and are already making their own algorithms!

Ms. Dipersio’s 1^st grade Monarch Heroes had a very busy week! In STEAM Lab they made their class butterfly for the Journey North Symbolic Migration to Mexico, worked on their wings, AND got started in Code.org Course B! They learned to navigate to their class, sign in with a partner, and are already making amazing progress!

Ms. Mosquera’s 2^nd grade Recycling Team completed their bin audit and got their classroom recycling assignments. They made posters for their hallways and got to work in Code.org Course C. They are old hands at Code.org, so they were ready for the new challenges! They love all the new puzzles and are pair programming like champions!

Ms. Guzman’s 3^rd grade, Ms. White’s 4^th grade, and Mr. Torres’ 5^th grade made fantastic progress in Code.org, learned to use the new digital goal setting tool - Padlet, and the new digital help tool – Classroom Q, and the new digital Exit Ticket via Scratch and Makey-Makey! 4^th grade even found time to paint with the Sphero robots!

Ms. Massey’s 3^rd grade G/T class completed step two of their PBL Scratch Pals project – creating their sprite and writing up their research as a conversation! Next week they’ll complete the programming and learn to upload it to online Scratch, use the backpack tool, and import their work into a remixed collaborative project. I can’t wait to see their final products!