17-18 Week 24

It was a wonderful week of STEAM and especially Green STEAM! We also had fantastic Arts Access Initiative learning experiences with Da Camera.

PPES STEM Lab 1718 week 24 from Boyce Teacher on Vimeo.

For scenes from Da Camera’s 1^st grade Butterfly Music Encounters click HERE

For scenes from Da Camera’s 2^nd grade Stella Luna Music Encounters click HERE

To see our K-2 Name That Book team click HERE

Thanks to the cooperation of the Kinder, 1^st grade, and ancillary teams I was able to switch classes back and forth all week so that all K-1 students could participate in the creation of the Earth Day art projects. The official unveiling won’t happen until April, but they made an incredible start!

Also, this week students in the STEAM lab combined design, art, and robots! Classes learned to program and drive Bee Bots and Sphero robots. They created personal mats for the Bee Bots – a zoo, a fairytale land, a farm, and a city scape! Upper grades painted abstract creation with the Spheros.

Of course, classes continued to make progress in the code.org courses as well! 4^th and 5^th graders created personal BrainPOP accounts and learned to make use of the Make-a-Map, Make-a-Movie, and Snap Thoughts in Game Up. 3rd grade enjoyed a Free Build Day mid-week as a reward for exceptional collaboration and progress in their coding course!

Great job this week, Panthers!