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ANIMALS IN ART
This week, we focused on community-building and learning about textures. We got to manipulate textures on paper and even go on a scavenger hunt to find different textures around the classroom (texture rubbing scavenger hunt). We ended the week with bigger art projects like creating textured animal collages and making our own animal.
CREATIVE PROGRAMMING WITH SCRATCH
This week in Creative Programming, we have set up our Scratch emails and accounts, started introducing important coding topics such as events and if-then statements, and started our journey through Scratch coding! On Friday, we took a trip to the UH eSports Gaming Lab to check out cool games and gamers for coding inspiration.
CREATOR SPACE ADVANCED
This week we started designing our mixed media canvases, learned to do a basic friendship bracelet tying, and made our first shrinky-dinks!
FOSSIL FILES 🦖
This week we went over fossils, fossils, and more fossils! Every student has started their learning journals with some notes and vocabulary pages, but we’ve also been busy creating pop out inserts to help us remember everything we’ve learned. We made a mini timeline to help us visualize how long ago the dinosaurs lived, and we made a step by step insert about the fossilization process. We’ve been busy using our new knowledge to solve puzzles. Next week we will be doing even more investigating by digging up and categorizing fossils, analyzing ‘fossil’ trackways, and studying how we know what dinosaurs looked like.
MINECRAFT: A VIRTUAL LEARNING ADVENTURE
PASSPORT TO ART
This week, students began their journey around the world by exploring artistic traditions from Asia. They created Japanese ukiyo-e inspired prints while learning about The Great Wave Off Kanagawa and practicing printmaking techniques with brayers and barens. Students also practiced Chinese calligraphy using water brushes and designed Chinese porcelain-inspired plates featuring meaningful symbols and patterns. Through Indian Rangoli art, students explored symmetry and design while creating colorful salt artwork. To conclude the week, students created Korean-inspired norigae charms and learned about traditional Korean art and clothing. Throughout the week, we discussed how artists use symbols, colors, and images to express emotions, tell stories, and represent important parts of who they are.
ROBOTICS WITH VEX
We began our class by creating name tents as a getting to know you activity. After that we worked on a few puzzles to help us develop habits in problem solving, communicating, and working in groups. The second part of each day was dedicated to working on our Freeze tag robots. On Wednesday, we had our first one vs. one tag challenge.
SLEUTH ACADEMY FOR JR. DETECTIVES
This week we focused on crime scene basics & types of evidence. They learned how to identify different types of evidence (physical, biological, trace, circumstantial, etc.) found at a crime scene. They also discussed proper techniques and procedures for documenting a crime scene so that the evidence (and the investigator) are not contaminated or damaged. Finally, they learned about the “art” of crime detection and how to make a facial composite using a computer software demonstration.
STEAM WITH LEGO SPIKE
This week, students were introduced to the Lego Spike equipment and software by completing various introductory builds and challenges.
STORYBOOK TO STAGE
This week students were introduced to readers theater.
After reading the script for “I Hate My Hat,” students made unique headband hats that they wore for their performances on Tuesday. They performed for classmates and our photographer. Next they started learning “The Witch and the Broomstick “ script and created headbands of these characters.
Throughout the week, we also played drama class games to get comfortable being silly with each other and to remember to project our voices
We, Miss Tanja and Emmitt, are amazed at the creativity, kindness, and performing skills of this group—and it is only week 1!
UNDERSEA ECOLOGY
Students have started to learn about ecosystems, abiotic factors, and seaweed. They also examined seaweed using magnifying glasses and microscopes. To further learn about seaweed and the non-living components of an ecosystem, we did crafts including a sensory tube, a tide simulator, and seaweed prints.