STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 16

I was tied up with testing most of the week, but cancelled everything on Thursday to have classes come in for a Free Build Day before the break!

Here’s a sneak peek at some of our wonderful Winter Program

Or you can watch the whole show here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0rwTPbQ4wY&feature=youtu.be

We all had a fantastic time! Have a safe and relaxing break, Panthers!

See you next year!

STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 15

So much testing! The students were testing – District Level Assessments for a different subject every day; I was testing – administering the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, however we did manage to squeeze in a day or two of coding and building!

STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 14

This week we held our 5^th annual campus-wide Hour of Code!

It was a complete success thanks to the support of my amazing team: Mr. Baham, Mr. Huerta, Ms. Karna, Mr. Keahey, Ms. Kindle, and Ms. Ryan – they stepped out of their various roles as Music, Art, Technology Applications, PE, and Drama specialists to join me as coding instructors for the day. 

The one person who truly makes our Hour of Code happen is our campus technologist, Mr. Contreras! He has managed all the logistics of collecting (and charging!) 100+ laptops, setting them up in the gym and library, and most impressively – getting everything back where it came from – for the past few years. I am so very grateful to this group for another great event!

We also held our campus Spelling Bee this week! To see more about this event, click HERE

STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 13

A HUGE week of Green STEAM! We had a Kinder Green Hero Trash Bash, the recycling team started a new poster campaign, Monarch Heroes finished painting all their new beds for the habitat expansion and their 4^th grade partners carried them out and placed them. 

These 4^th grade partners got a work-out this week! They helped all eight groups of Monarch Heroes cycle through the lab to finish painting, making their milk-jug monarchs, and got the last set of reused cereal box wings completed. They also cut out the plastic bottle spirals and milk jug butterflies as the plastic was too sharp and difficult for the first grade to cut through. Finally, they punched holes and attached wires to all the butterflies for the garland.

There was also lots of work in Code.org, robot-retells with OZOBOTS, and everyone’s favorite - a Free Build Day.

What a fantastic week!