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Today the first graders spent their STEM time decorating their Gingerbread Community. On Friday we will be adding trees. We also have skype dates with two other classes in different parts of the United States coming up. The next part of our Global Project was to research facts about Michigan, and recorded clues using the Flipgrid app to share with our new friends - to see if they can guess where in the world we are. It is fun making new friends and learning from them. We already have some responses with a challenge to figure out their clues and guess where they are from!
5th -8th grade students enjoyed a Skype conversation with middle school students from Ottawa, Canada. Students talked a little bit about our schools and the weather...our students were shocked it was 14 degrees there and they were shocked it was 61 degrees here...it provided a little lesson on Celsius and Fahrenheit. Finally, the students shared their art pieces which are part of a global project. It was a wonderful experience.
Mrs. M and I have begun a school-wide STEAM project. We are participating in the Global Awesome Squiggles Collaborative Art Project 2017. Students from grades kindergarten through middle school are creating art based on the same four squiggles as hundreds of classrooms world-wide. Fourth grade and up will also try their hand at creating digital art with the template. We will be sharing the students artwork in a variety of ways using various technology. A few of the classes will take it a step farther as we connect with classrooms around the world via skype, twitter, facebook, etc. We are so excited to be a part of this huge project! 2nd graders are nearly done with their wrap-around marble runs. They have created them 100% independently! Nice work 2nd graders!
Our collaborative slide show with classes around the country and farther... Click on the picture below to see the classes that have already posted about their projects. You can visit the page that the children used for their research here.
The kindergarten groups wrapped up their marble runs this week! They did a great job of making their marble run slow instead of fast. Nice work Kinders! |
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