February 2024:
STREAM
The 3-6 Global Education students have learned about animal internal and external parts to prepare them to virtually design an animal that could survive in an Arctic climate. We will now be using our new LEGO Spoke Prime robots to construct an animal that can move and modify its external parts to ensure it can run fast from predators.
The 4th grade students just finished up their collision Rube Goldberg machines. Their collision course could not begin with their hands, it must be started with a Sphero robot. Then, there must be at least 10 collisions that end by turning on an LED light. The students were up for this tricky challenge and exceeded my expectations when it came to creativity and teamwork!
Technology
We reviewed robotics programming with Spheroes. We reviewed connecting a Sphero to iPad App. We learned about different program types, coding blocks, and wrote programs for sphero to achieve a simple goal.
Art
Wayne Thiebaud-inspired torn paper collage desserts using recycled magazines. All of these projects will be displayed at our “Earthy Otters” STREAM night, which is why we are focusing on the use of recycled materials.
Physical Education
K-6th grade: February was American Heart Month. To celebrate, students learned and practiced their jump roping skills! Jump roping is an excellent cardio exercise to keep our hearts healthy. Students learned how to do several jump roping tricks, partner jump roping tricks and team jump roping. We also challenged ourselves to jump rope for 1-2- or 3 minutes straight without stoping or making mistakes, or at least 20 times in a row for kinders!
Media Center*
During Black History Month (February) the students were introduced to people who have had an impact on the world.
Music*
When folk dancing in music class we might be simultaneously working on musical listening skills, movement and spatial awareness skills, sequential memory, teamwork and social skills, and some cultural or historical awareness. Recently we, among other things, have been working on some folk dancing skills (like the do-si-do, partner promenade, and the grand-right-and-left). We applied these skills to a kindness-themed folk dance for the recent Great Kindness Challenge Week. We will further be adding these skills to the square dances we just started learning.
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