21-22 STEAM Lab week 11

 This week the lab hosted Ms. Allende, Ms. Nicholson, Ms. Mosquera, Ms. Pena, Ms. White and Ms. Mulry's classes.

Another great showing on the Math Stories activities and Robo-Retells! 

K-2 continue to progress in their coding courses and 3-5 complemented their robotic unit with the Code.org Dance Party & AI Hour of Code.

G/T started work on their November Journals and 4th & 5th grade completed the research for their Galapagos Mini Museum projects.

5th grade put in a habitat work day in their roles as Hero Helpers, cleaning up and putting our cardboard and pallets to help condition the ground for the new beds.

After school enrichment completed their Recycled Orchestra project and it was a phenomenal success!

We were thrilled to have entomologist Ms. Nicole Martinez join us for our Guest Speaker series! We all learned a great deal about insects in general, but also some really useful specifics about pollinators that our Monarch Heroes will be putting to use for this year's habitat plans!

And, as always, a very enthusiastic celebration of creativity and collaboration was on display for Free Build Friday as Keva, LEGO, and Chain Reaction kits took over the lab!

21-22 STEAM Lab week 10

 A great week with some very creative work done by Ms. Hernandez, Ms. Maldonado, Ms. James, Ms. Martin, Ms. Lee, and Mr. Fakhreddine's classes!

We started off strong with our Math Stories: Eric Carle's Rooster's Off to See the World, Marilyn Burns' The Greedy Triangle, and Ann Tompert's Grandfather Tang's Story. Students did a great job on the art activities and interactives, and, after an exploratory play day with the Bee Bots & Ozobots, the Robo-Retells we're a smashing success!

K-2 continued work on their coding courses and 3rd-5th got reacquainted with Code.org through the Dance Party & AI Hour of Code. 

Ms. Hernandez's Green Heroes did a fantastic job with their campus clean-up!

G/T spent some time learning games promoting spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, and visual problem solving: Rush Hour, Quirkle, and Q-Bitz.

In their after school enrichment they make a spectacular start to their Recycled Orchestra with excellent designs and construction of their instruments. 

We lost power Thursday afternoon, so creating their Scratch programs & connecting the Makey Makeys had to be postponed, but no one seemed too upset about a bonus Free Build with LEGO, Snap Circuits, and Meccano!

21-22 STEAM Lab week 9

 This week saw the start of a new rotation! The second cycle will feature a Math Story/ Robo-Retell mash-up where we explore math concepts through art, literature, and robotics. Ms. Colmenero, Ms. Maldonado, Ms. James, Ms. Martin, Ms. Lee, and Mr. Torres' classes absolutely hit it out of the park with these projects this week!

In addition to the math story robo retells we had: code.org, Bee Bot and OZOBOT exploration days, & Free Build Friday, a Green Hero Clean-up, and Monarch Hero Migration Exploration

First grade GT students from Ms. Montoya and Ms. Thormodsgaard's classes staged their adaptation of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Live Arts Experiences returned to the building with our beloved Arts Partner DACAMERA! 5th grade loved their "Friendly Debate" Music Encounter

@PineyElem we were thrilled to welcome back beloved Arts Partner @DaCameraHouston! 3 of our 5th grades enjoyed a Friendly Debate Music Encounter as they worked on facts vs opinions@artsconnecthtx @HISDFineArt #ArtsIntegration pic.twitter.com/xwXea1PxaG

— kimberly boyce (@kboyceq) October 20, 2021

We held our very first Student Decathlon!

@PineyElem it's our 1st Student Decathlon! 1st-5th grade students are testing their skills in a range of events from spelling, to dramatic reading, to map interpretation, to listening!
Thanks to proctors @ms_bridgewater @csalas2912 @thompsonmonical & Ms. Accavallo!@HoustonISD_GT pic.twitter.com/nvpi8NDDMV

— kimberly boyce (@kboyceq) October 20, 2021

And last, but not least, we started after school enrichment for 4th & 5th grade students!

 

@PineyElem after school Special Projects class was really productive! They painted 24 recused aluminum can butterflies for a new garden art piece & blended polymer clay to make new butterflies for the library mural!
A little wiring & baking and these will be ready to install! pic.twitter.com/QACXriuL9U

— kimberly boyce (@kboyceq) October 20, 2021

21-22 STEAM Lab week 8

It's the end of the first rotation! Everyone had been introduced to the coding environment they will be using this year, the Green Heroes and Monarch Heroes have all completed their first unit activities, and we are all looking forward to the next activities. This last group for unit one did a fantastic job; It was a pleasure having Ms. K. Keahey, Ms. Pineda, Ms. E. Keahey, Ms. McCord, Ms. E. Guzman, and Mr. Cruz's classes in the lab!

We also made a little acknowledgement of Ms. Bailey's 1st Principal Appreciation Month! 

@PineyElem we are the most privileged to have such an amazing principal and we - every student & staff member - are so pleased to celebrate @kendalrbailey this month!@HoustonISD @ELEM1_HISD pic.twitter.com/zdLm2AZnyN

— kimberly boyce (@kboyceq) October 13, 2021

4th grade GT treated us to a fantastic presentation of Tomi DiPaolo's The Legend of the Bluebonnet

We wrapped up a splendid Hispanic Heritage Month with a digital field trip from our beloved Arts Partners at Houston Ballet!