Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Let there be Light


The Light investigation continuous. 
With Reglection  , refraction , concave , and convex . 

Friday, November 13, 2015

The Light Blox is unveiled


Today we experimented with the new lasers and lenses . 
We tried three different activities:
First we did follow the beam where we tested have a light travels in a straight lines. Here we lined up index cards to see how one would travel from one to the next and spread out over distance.
The second activity we did worked with reflection and how light will bounce off the wall and off the mirror. 
The third experiment was with Refraction and how the shape of a lens impacts how light bends . Here we tried concave , convex and trapezoid lenses . 


Monday, November 9, 2015

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Movement - 3rd graders get busy !!!

3rd graders work on Movement - 
Straight , side to side , round and round , back and forth - we tested this with speed and different heights affecting the
Distance . 

Students lead Reflection time.

At the end of each class , we reflect on what didn't work that day and a Bright Spot for their work. Usually this is lead by the teacher , in order to keep the higher level questions flowing , however this past Friday a 4th grader started the reflection on his own . This was a very proud teacher moment . Proud Pirate Student Leaders ! 

Math pays off

Students using math to create artwork 

Friday, October 30, 2015

Cube / pep- rally / Einstein - what a week !

Zometools take cube form - Katara has been very busy with her cube within a cube and now a new cube has formed . Looking forward to the final product . 
Our Pirate ship sailed ! 
Drug Free Pep- Rally 
Einstein ( aka Robert Lane ) makes some dry ice boo bubble science fun ! 



Tuesday, October 20, 2015

STEM =Zometools

Success !!! Great work boys such a wonderful addition to the wall . 

2nd and 3 rd graders have an Amazing Friday

3rd graders earned Prezi certificates !
They made amazing presentations on Science Day ! 
Sweet Second Graders earned Hour of Code certificates for their Leadership Binders . 


Great Day in the Smart Lab

Codeing Sphero and creating obstacle courses . 
Girl Power !! 
Adobe Photoshop editing 
Working with Lego Robotic Gears . 
Comic Life brings your own story to life . 



Thursday, October 15, 2015

4th graders taking ownership

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I am so excited for this . These two young men saw a video on the CLS website and said ," Look Mrs. Adams we can make that for our wall too !" They are working so hard to finish . 
It will say STEM when they are finished which is what we focus on , Science , Technology , Engineering , and Math . 

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Friday, September 25, 2015

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Pirates and Science

What an amazing day ! 

Students and staff dressed up for National Talk like a Pirate Day . 
2nd grade Pirate Diego knocking out some Code . 
What a cute little Pirate ! 

3rd grade teachers had an amazing 
Science day !!! I took green screen pictures of all the kiddos - now to edit them . Have a great weekend !!!