17-18 week 4

A fantastic, but frenetic 4^th week in the STEM lab! We hosted:

Ms. Ballentine’s Pre-K

Ms.Tran’s Kindergarten

Ms. Thompson’s 2nd grade

Mr. Garza’s 3rd grade

Ms. Grimaldol’s 4th grade

Ms. Limon’s 5th grade

PPES STEM lab wk 4 from Kimberly Boyce-Quentin on Vimeo.

The real story this week was our long-awaited Eco-Schools Green Flag celebration!

Click HERE to read about it on HISD’s News Blog

See event pictures from HISD's Facebook HERE

We started our last crop of Sunflower Stars this week! I was so happy to meet Ms. Ballentine’s class and get started on our project. They learned all about the parts of plants and what they do, what plants need to survive, and how to plant a seed. They also made paper plate sunflowers!

Kindergarten started the week by getting acquainted with various parts of a computer – they examined the monitor, mouse, keyboard, and a micro-computer. They also made a good start on their Level A coding course in Code.org.

2^nd grade designed Robot personal assistants that were specially imagined to perform specific tasks – personal pizza maker and homework doer continue to be popular models! 3^rd-5^th grade worked on their idea portraits, and all 4 grades got started on their level Code.org course. Everyone made amazing progress! In fact, they all sis so well that all 4 grade earned a Free Choice Friday!