17-18 Week 6

Where is this year going? This 6^th week was another fantastic fiesta of creative & collaborative problem solving!

STEM lab hosted:

Ms. Sato’s Pre-K

Ms. Almanza’s Kinder

Ms. Lugo’s 2^nd grade

Ms. Roesch’s 3^rd grade

Ms. Nelson’s 4^th grade

Mr. Torres’ 5^th grade

PPES STEM lab wk6 from Kimberly Boyce-Quentin on Vimeo.

The week started off with a special presentation for PK-2^nd! A dairy cow came for a presentation about nutrition and some basic facts about where our food comes from! Sonny was a big hit with all the children!

Classes all went out for progress checks on our various Eco-School projects – the habitats, Pumpkin Patches, and Sunflower Street are all doing well! We continue to see lots of pollinators in all the gardens. Our Monarch Heroes launched our annual Monarch Money drive – they have a goal of $800.00 this year!

Pre-K spent the week exploring the possibilities of play dough! They made letters, numbers, and lots of shapes. Kindergarten had their computer petting zoo to get to know all the parts of the computer and their jobs. Next they learned about how code tells the computer what to do. They started working in their Code.org class and were doing a great job creating simple algorithms!

2^nd-5^th had their first activity of identifying the difference between drawing and designing! Next they jumped into the grade-level coding courses. They accomplished a lot for just a few days, so we celebrated with Free Build Friday!