2019-20 STEAM Lab week 9

Another week full of arts, special events, and student learning!

All grade levels started the Van Gogh unit this week; in a fun coincidence, the ART Lab is doing collaborative collage too with Mr. Huerta! Students explored the work and life of Vincent Van Gogh via Wonderopolis, BrainPOP Jr, and Britannica Kids.

We used these same research sources for 4^th and 5^th grades’ background work on electrical circuits. They put their new concepts to the test with the breadboards and LEDS, Snap Circuits, and Little Bits.

We continued work in Code.org, exploring more complex idea such as loops in Kinder – 2^nd, and nested loops and conditional statements in 3^rd-5^th grade.

The Name That Book teams are making great progress with their book lists – in fact we have a 1st grade student who has completed her first read-through of the entire list!

A big week for Arts Ed and Arts integration as the entire Kindergarten and 1st grade teams atended Musiqa at the Hobby Center and Arts Partner DaCamera was on campus for our very first Music Encounters of the year! They worked with our 3rd grade G/T classes on a special math and music problem solving activity called "Hiring the Band". They had a fantastic time applying their academic skills to an authentic and musical situation - also saxophone serenades! 

As a campus we had lots of special events and celebrations! Both our Eco-Schools USA Monarch Heroes and our Recycling Team were awarded Mayor’s Proud Partner status and will be recognized at the annual Keep Houston Beautiful celebration in November! We are so very proud of our student leaders. 

On Saturday the PTO hosted a fantastic Fall Festival with special guests from Houston Rodeo Agriculture Education Outreach committee and so many of our amazing community partners from Common Threads and Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. The festival was also the annual kickoff celebration for Marathon Kids!