This has been a busy week for the Little Journalists – along with writing pieces for their weekly newsletter (The Weekly Tea), they documented and wrote about two field trips that they went on. On Wednesday, they went to the…
Wearable Art Gets “Happi” [Week 3]
This week we had a field trip to the Honolulu Museum of Art where we learned about three different art mediums and had a short interactive tour of some of the galleries in the museum. In class, we began constructing…
STEM: Discovery Catapults into Week 3 [Week 3]
This week we learned to efficiently use materials to minimize our waste. To do this, we learned about a money system that incorporated our previous lessons on states of matter. Students were able to purchase materials as a group to…
Wet Weather Leads to a Quiet Week for Let’s Play Sports [Week 3]
This week has been a rainy one! We spent Monday on the courts until we got rained out, then went into the MPB for some indoor activities that included Zumba, Jan-ken-po snake, and a reaction time partner challenge. The next…
STEM: Science Olympics [Week 3]
Robotics with VEX [Week 3]
Robotics with Lego WeDo Colossal Quakes [Week 2]
This week in Lego WeDo, students experimented with complex robot models and coding. For the first time, they programmed their robots to perform two actions simultaneously. On Wednesday, the students were tasked with building an earthquake simulator to test different…
Minecraft Smiles [Week 2]
This week in Minecraft, students continued with character customizations and game modifications, working alone and in pairs, while learning to build various structures within their worlds.
Robotics with VEX Builds Bot Bases and Ramp Races [Week 2]
This week it was all about that base in VEX. The class built a ton of stuff – from bot bases to adding second stories to individual bases with wheels. And for those who finished early, a ramming device. Students…
Inspiring Global Leaders Create Quizzy Kahoot!s and Packing Plans [Week 2]
Inspiring Global Leaders presented research on countries they were assigned during Week 1. After each presentation, students participated in fun Kahoot! quizzes, nudging the competition out of the way! Students also learned about international relations, immigration and refugees, and global health…