A wild, weather impacted week, but students were incredibly
productive with only three days to work!
Ms. Almanza, Ms. Montoya, Ms. Lugo, Mr. Torres, Ms. P.
Guzman, and Ms. V. Martinez’s classes were in the STEAM Lab this week and
impressed me with the speed at which they mastered all the procedures and
jumped straight into making and learning!
Monday started off with a fantastic meeting of the No Place
For Hate student coalition.
The subcommittees presented their recommendations, and
everyone voted on the campus-wide events, the climate survey questions, and the
Resolution of Respect pledge signing and activities. They got straight to work
after the meeting and the survey was created and the link shared to both
computer labs, the pledges went out to all the classes, and the first set of
morning announcement No Place For Hate Moments were filmed and aired!
Thirty minutes later I had a group of Ms. Hernandez’s Green
Heroes in the main conference room to open the Monday administration meeting
with a presentation of their theme song and explanation of their Eco-Schools
USA mission.
On my way to collect the presentation team from the Marathon Kids
morning work-out, I ran into a lovely group of Ms. Colmenero’s Green Heroes who
had picked up all the litter around the track as they logged their daily half
mile run!
All this awesome occurred before 8:30 Monday morning!
Clearly, we were on track for an excellent week and it was,
until Imelda apparently decided that we were having too much of a good thing.
Students K-5 made outstanding progress in their Code.org courses, researched,
wrote, and performed wonderful science shadow stories, fell in love with
Wonderopolis, and created fantastical environments, creatures, and courses with
Keva planks, LEGO, and OZOBOT. Monarch Heroes earned and made their wings, and
all the Green Teams practiced their theme songs.
All my classes did fantastic work and stayed engaged through threatening skies, deafening thunder, uncomfortably close lightning strikes, and rapidly rising waters. Thursday was challenging, but our school community definitely rose to the occasion!
This week also saw Houston Ballet on campus for our first
Arts Partner residency of the year. Ms. Ballentine’s third grade will be
exploring physical science concepts through movement with the marvelous Dance
to Learn program. The class loves it and has already awarded instructor Mr.
Paul rock-star status!
Friday’s closure was especially disappointing as 5th
grade was slated to visit the Houston Ballet’s beautiful Center for Dance for
the Behind the Scenes program. We were privileged to take a group to this last
year and it was an incredible experience! Houston Ballet is incredibly good to
us and have already reached out to try to reschedule despite the program being
fully booked! We love our Arts Partners!
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