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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 come from vibrations. They also explored how to make high and low sounds using a Dash robot. We practiced some coding in code.org last week, too.
Second grade students will be learning about how plants and animals depend on one another. We made Colorado wildflowers out of Legos to kick our unit off. We have just started learning about how bees are becoming extinct and what that means for our food supply. Second graders will be engineering something to pollinate flowers in the makerspace this week!

Enjoy that sunshine!

Jen Mortensen

El 25 de abril de 6-7 será nuestra última Noche Familiar STEM--¡Fiesta de Programación! Aprenda a programar robots como lo hacen sus hijos. ¿Quieres aprender más sobre las estrategias creativas que utilizamos para enseñar habilidades como la programación? ¡Únase a nosotros para una Noche Familiar STEM dirigida por estudiantes y pruebe a programar una variedad de robots usted mismo!

¡Estoy de vuelta en la enseñanza de STEM! Los estudiantes de 3º a 5º grado están aprendiendo a crear un vídeo que utiliza la tecnología de pantalla verde, y han elegido tantos tipos diferentes de vídeo de noticias, a un informe sobre un animal, una historia acerca de convertirse en hombres lobo, y un PSA sobre el ahorro de las tortugas marinas. No puedo esperar a que los veáis, pero aquí tenéis una foto de algunos niños trabajando:

Los estudiantes de Kindergarten continuaron estudiando las fuerzas en STEM. Los estudiantes hicieron laberintos de paja y pompones, bolos STEM, construcción de dominós y engranajes para seguir viendo cómo funcionan las fuerzas. Fotos de Kindergarten


Primer grado trajo a casa sus armónicas que hicieron para demostrar que los sonidos provienen de las vibraciones. También exploraron cómo hacer sonidos altos y bajos usando un robot Dash. También practicamos un poco de codificación en code.org la semana pasada.

Los alumnos de segundo curso aprenderán cómo las plantas y los animales dependen unos de otros. Hemos hecho flores silvestres de Colorado con Legos para empezar nuestra unidad. Acabamos de empezar a aprender cómo las abejas se están extinguiendo y lo que eso significa para nuestro suministro de alimentos. Los alumnos de segundo grado diseñarán algo para polinizar las flores en el makerspace esta semana.


¡Disfruta del sol!

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