17-18 week 7

A sensational 7^th week in the Piney Point STEM lab featuring:

Ms. Ballentine’s Pre-K

Ms. Caro’s Kindergarten

Ms. Thomas’ 2^nd grade

Mr. Briceno’s 3rgd grade

Ms. Martinez’s 4^th grade

And Ms. Mulry’s 5^th grade

PPES Stem lab wk7 from Kimberly Boyce-Quentin on Vimeo.
Pre-K went out to check on their sunflowers and were very impressed with how much they have grown. They worked on letters, numbers, and shapes in clay this week.

Kinder made their Litter Less Green Hero capes this week! We reused grocery sacks and talked about reducing consumption and reusing help the earth. We also went out to check on the pumpkin patch – the vines are growing everywhere, and flowers are blooming! Pumpkins can’t be far behind. They also had their computer parts petting zoo and got started in their code.org coding course.

2^nd grade started the week with a special performance of their peers’ Mini Drama Fair performances! Back in the lab we discussed the difference between drawing and designing and then set to work to design a robot assistant! They also learned how to access their code.org class and made a lot of progress on the programming challenges!

3^rd and 4^th grade started with Kobi Yamada’s What Do You Do With an Idea? And created wonderful Idea Portraits. They started work on their grade level code.org courses also.

5^th grade started a new unit – mini milk carton automata. They also made some excellent progress in their code.org course!

We wrapped up the week with a Free Build Friday!