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April 17: Classroom Happenings, Family STEM Night - Programming Party! / 17 de abril: Sucesos en el aula, Noche STEM en familia - ¡Fiesta de programación!

April 25 from 6-7 will be our final Family STEM Night--Programming Party! Learn how to program robots just like your children do. I hope toWant to learn more about the creative strategies we use to teach skills like programming? Join us for a student-led STEM Family Night and try programming a variety of robots yourself! 5th Grade students created nose cones and fins in STEM to help make their film canister rockets they made in class more aerodynamic. As always with this group, there was a lot of thoughtful engineering and a solid helping of team spirit as you will see in our pictures. 5th Grade Rockets 1st Grade continues to work on sound in their classroom unit planner, so we are using the engineering design process to learn about how to block sound waves. Their challenge is to build a structure for my phone that causes the smallest decibel reading on it when we make noise outside of the structure. They are working really hard to test and modify. 1st Grade Sound Build 5th...

April 10: Classroom happenings, Family STEM Night April 25 6-7 PM

Dear Frisco Families, April 25 from 6-7 will be our final Family STEM Night--Programming Party! Learn how to program robots just like your children do. I hope toWant to learn more about the creative strategies we use to teach skills like programming? Join us for a student-led STEM Family Night and try programming a variety of robots yourself! I am back at teaching STEM! Students in 3rd through 5th grade are learning how to create a video that uses green screen technology, and they have chosen so many different types of video from news, to a report about an animal, a story about becoming werewolves, and a PSA about saving sea turtles. I can't wait for you to see them, but here's a picture of a few kids at work: Kindergarten students continued to study forces in STEM. Students did straw and pompon mazes, STEM bowling, domino building, and gears to keep looking at how forces work. Kindergarten pictures First grade brought home their harmonicas they made to demonstrate that sounds...

March 3: VEX Competition, Donations, Classroom Fun. 3 de marzo: Competición VEX, donaciones, diversión en el aula

Dear Frisco Families, Please watch this video blog to learn about what we have been up to in STEM classes. THANK YOU Town of Frisco and the PTSA for your donations over my two years here! Here are some examples of purchases we have made for your students! Dash (see above): Block programming Makey Makey: Circuits, innovation (see our photos and video for fourth grade) Five iPads: iPad apps run robots like our Spheros with the chariots and Dash Lego for Education Programmable Building Kits: Innovation, following directions, problem solving Student field trips and guest speakers: Each grade received $1000 from STEM donations to travel and pay for STEM related guest experiences in order to make learning more authentic. STEM materials: We are always purchasing things like duct tape, pipecleaners, popsicle sticks, and other random materials for the maker space to keep construction options wide open. Collaborative furniture for our library media and STEM spaces You are all just am...

February 6: STEM Activities, Cardboard Convention, Family STEM Night February 15 6-7 PM, VEX Competition - March 8

Please join us in the STEM room and LMC for an hour of Cardboard Convention! I am looking forward to seeing the work you and your families have done, and you will love seeing the work kids have created here at school. One problem that is being solved is an automatic trash can for Mr. Alberto the custodian:) Thank you so much for your donations! I am good with cardboard right now, but I would love toilet paper tubes! 5th Grade VEX Club will compete March 8 after school. I will give you more details when I have them. Their robots are really coming along, and they are practicing driving them, too! Hello, Frisco Families, I have a quick activities update for you! 5th grade - Ms. Lloyd and I are collaborating to help the students create models of daytime, constellation movement, the phases of the Moon and seasons, so they can teach younger students. Students are not only become experts in the science, but they are learning about how different grade levels have different attention spans...

January 25: Chromebook care, Cardboard Convention After School Work Time, Family resources

Hi, everyone, Cardboard Convention work time We are offering time at school for students to work on their Cardboard Convention project. This project is not required , but students and families can display their work on February 15 at 6:00 PM. Mr. Hansen and I are offering times after school on January 31, February 2, February 7, and February 9 between 4-5 PM. Please email this Cardboard Convention Permission Slip , if your child is going to stay and work in the LMC and STEM lab. If your child is a little confused, we will all make a paper prototype in STEM Monday and Tuesday. Chromebook Care: We are seeing a few more damaged Chromebooks recently, and right now, we do not have loaners available for students to borrow . I have two set aside for students who need to test. Central is doing their best to get repairs done. Please remind yourself of our repair policy in the One2World Handbook . For a brief period of time last year, if students were keeping the high quality, cloth, h...