2019-20 STEAM Lab week 24

A short, but productive week!

The week was suddenly cut short by a broken water main, so K-2 were unable to complete their projects. They will return to the lab one day next week to wrap up their last bits and pieces!

3^rd and 4^th finished their Ozobot Robo-Retells with 3^rd grade adding a circular course to their water cycles!

4th grade hosted a couple of story parties with students from Ms. Caro and Ms. Colmenero's kindergarten classes. They read selections from the K-2 Name That Book list. Everyone involved had a fantastic time!

Ms. Limon’s 5^th grade hosted the year’s first Cardboard Arcade! We begin this unit with this video about Caine’s Arcade

and the students choose a partner and begin designing! They invited Ms. Montoya’s 1^st grade to come play their games. Everyone had a fantastic time!

This week Ms. Ballentine’s 3^rd graders skyped with animal scientist, Kelimar Diaz. She shared a fantastic set of slides detailing her personal journey to a science career and then answered everyone’s questions about her work which focuses on terrestrial limbless undulatory locomotion.

Digital Making Club – 4^th and 5^th grade started working through a Scratch Challenge pack, 3^rd grade made impressive progress on their Scratch + Makey Makey interactive storytelling projects,

while second grade finished their Ozobot Robo-Retell of Little Red Riding Hood.

This week was rich in amazing arts experiences! Kindergarten had musicians from our beloved Arts Partners DaCamera in the classroom for their Great Train Race Music Encounters. 

Then on Tuesday, 4^th grade went to the Houston Symphony for a concert program that demonstrated how music can tell a narrative. Students were introduced to the way plot, setting, and character can be expressed musically. They were treated to the Marriage of Figaro Overture by Mozart, a movement from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a couple of Spanish dances, Stravinsky’s Infernal Dance, Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, and Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story.

We love being an Arts Connect Creative Campus! It is wonderful having the chance to participate in these fantastic Arts Integration programs.

Next week our 3-5 Name That Book team heads to competition, so wish us luck!