17-18 Week 16

A VERY short week in the STEM lab, but we made the most of it! 

PPES STEM Lab 1718 wk16 from Kimberly Boyce-Quentin on Vimeo.

Snowflakes (timely!) were the topic for K, 2^nd and 3^rd again this week; they researched with BrainPOP, made borax crystal and reused milk carton snowflakes, and designed digital snowflakes in Code.org’s Frozen Hour of Code. 1^st grade Monarch Heroes discussed symmetry and made chromatography butterflies and got started on their coding class. 4^th and 5^th grade worked together constructing LEGO Simple Machines, K’Nex structures, and chain reactions. Last week’s 4^th and 5^th grade classes didn’t get to host their cardboard arcade so with the kind collaboration of Ms. Kindle I was able to bring them back to host Ms. Almanza and Ms. Hernandez’s Kindergarten classes. They were perfect guests! Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely, and even Ms. Swaby dropped by to see the fun!