A great week, full of learning, making, and special events!
On Monday, K-2 classes from last week were back in the lab
to wrap up their projects. We had wonderful Robo-Retells from K,
and 1st ,
and second truly enjoyed their repurposed can cuicas!
Also Monday, we held a Black History themed Mardi Gras parade – it was a little late due to Friday’s closure, but plenty amazing! View some highlights HERE
We started the new units for K-4 this week and they are off
to a great start! K is making their Green Hero videos, so they are practicing
their song, conducting extra clean-ups, and sketching their version of a Green
Hero.
1st grade is creating their collaborative Monarch
Movies. First, they brainstormed a list of everything they learned this year
about monarch and then divided into groups to make the slides for each topic.
The slides were organized into order and combined and then they practiced
narrating their sections and managing our recycled film strip “viewer”!
2nd grade is looking for more ways to combat
waste on campus and to that end helped our Kinder by conducting a clean-up in
front of the school. They collected a large box full of trash from just the
small garden area by the Gold Car rider dismissal area. They sorted it and were
shocked to see how much plastic trash is everywhere.
3rd grade started working with Scratch. They
worked through the tutorial projects at their own pace to acquaint themselves
with the new programming environment and then started creating their own!
4th grade began their Interactive Stories using
Scratch and Makey Makey. In teams they selected either fiction, non-fiction, or
poetry and divided their subject into pieces. Then each team member created an
illustrated book page and wrote a Scratch program to animate their page. At the
end, all the pages were lined up in order and everyone went down the line to
enjoy the stories!
5th grade hosted our 2nd Cardboard
Arcade for the year. They hosted Ms. Tran’s kindergarten and a wonderful time
was had by all!
Friday saw our Kindergarten Eco-Schools USA Green Heroes’
annual Trash Bash. All eight of our K classes met outside for a massive litter
pick-up and then they sorted the trash into categories. For the second year in
a row, they discovered that plastic trash is the biggest culprit.
In the STEAM Lab we were able to squeeze in a little Free Build Friday too!
In the STEAM Lab we were able to squeeze in a little Free Build Friday too!
Our 3-5 Name that Book team competed on Wednesday. This
group has done a great book with the book list! They have been hosting a popular
series of Book Talks on the morning announcements! Check out the Name That Book tab at the top of this page to see some.Thank you to the Piney Point
PTO for treating our readers to lunch!
Digital Making Club – 3rd grader Krisha finished
our first Scratch + Makey Makey interactive story! She wrote and illustrated an
original story and then created a Scratch project that animated her tale. She
attached copper tape to the backs of her pages to connect them to the Makey
Makey and make her book interactive! The rest of the 3rd grade is
right behind her in completing the work.
4th and 5th grade began work on their
Interactive stories today, and 2nd grade completed rehearsals for
taping their Ozobot Robo-Retell.
Our Junior No Place For Hate subcommittee started work on our next campus-wide event. They are writing their own version of Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches.
Our Junior No Place For Hate subcommittee started work on our next campus-wide event. They are writing their own version of Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches.
Saturday, our UIL team competed at Northside High School in
Oral Reading English and Spanish and Creative and Ready Writing. We are so
proud of these super talented Panthers! Thanks to Ms. Hernandez and Ms.
Wheatley for chaperoning, our Panther Parents for their support, and the PTO
for sponsoring lunch!
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