STEAM Lab 2018-19 Week 17

Welcome back to the lab! It was a short week due to testing, but fantastic student collaboration and problem solving in Code.org, the building centers, OSMO Newton, Math, and Tangrams, and design made for a wonderful start to 2019!

Ms. Leal’s Monarch Heroes reused cardboard boxes and their milk cartons to start seeds for the spring planting. They also had two students complete the Code.org Course B! Congratulations to Mikela and Keyla!

The Earth Day design contests were introduced in Kinder and 2^nd grade, and 5^th grade started work on their Makey Makey 50 states project. We also had a Free Build Day! I have finished the G/T testing for the 2018-19 school year, so my lab is officially back open for STEAM!

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