We began our November Learning by playing some reading and vocabulary games including, I have Who Has Thanksgiving and I spy Thanksgiving Vocabulary games in Boom Cards. Next we played Crack the Code… Followed by I spy Thanksgiving…. Turkey Colors We read the story of the First Thanksgiving and made a Color Coded Thanksgiving Bracelet.… Read More November 2023

Who Stole the Cookies : Counting Cookies 1-10 with Boom Cards

Throughout this year please follow along as we journey through our: Superhero’s of STEM ABC’s of LEARNING A – Algorithm, B – Blog, C – Coding, D – Debugging, E – Engineering, F – Fourth, G – Graphics, H – Hyperlink, I – Invention, J – Jimu, K – Keyboard, L – Loop, M –… Read More SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023:

September Blog Entry WELCOME to the 2023/24 School Year  This year our Superhero’s of STEM will be engaging in a new CS4ALL curriculum called Software Engineering Program Jr. (SEPjr).  The goals of SEPjr are to (1) increase the number of elementary students learning computer science, (2) develop students’ computational thinking and problem-solving skills in real-world… Read More SEPTEMBER 2023/24 School Year

ScratchJr. Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, children can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. The Interface: BLOCK DESCRIPTIONS: PAINT EDITOR: https://www.scratchjr.org/ ADDING SOUND: SCRATCH JR. CODING CARDS:

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This week our Superhero’s of STEM Celebrated EVERYTHING STAR WARS! We began the week by completing our first STEM Project. Students created a rocket that could fly into another GALAXY!!! Next we paired an ipad with our 1st STAR WARS Robot and completed an obstacle course with STAR WARS Characters. We coded a STAR WARS… Read More May the 4th Be With You 2023

The Creature Garden is an open-ended construction kit that gives kids hundreds of parts to create and play with. Kids can race their creatures through obstacle courses, see if they will (or won’t!) walk, swim, and fly, and cross creatures to make new breeds. This app helps students to help develop creative-thinking, problem-solving, and storytelling skills.… Read More Creature Garden STEM Project

We dove into April by playing some Reading Games, I HAVE WHO HAS SPRING & EASTER, and completed some word games. Cracking the Spring Code: We completed some Spring BOOM Cards practicing CVC Words and Sentence Building. Spring story with Bruce Bear Spring Unplugged Coding: Students continued working on unplugged coding activities strengthening their hand… Read More April 2023