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ANIMALS IN ART
This week, our artists learned about different art techniques and modes such as 3d and moveable art. They tried out various crafts like a butterfly spinner and jellyfish hanging mobile. Finally, we started on our final project for the class—planning out and painting our shoebox habitat.
CREATIVE PROGRAMMING WITH SCRATCH
This week in Creative Programming, we learned to use complex functions like operators, ands, and clones to make real, working video game demos. As we wrap up our lessons in using Scratch, we began prepping and coding our final projects for the end of the program.
CREATOR SPACE ADVANCED
We rinsed and heat set our tie dye shirts, worked on mixed media canvases, and started our canvases for soap resist paintings.
FOSSIL FILES 🦖
MINECRAFT: A VIRTUAL LEARNING ADVENTURE
Our class has been exploring the geography and cultural places in Hawaiʻi. Students discussed what are important Hawaiian locations and why they’re significant—including historic buildings, sacred sites, and stunning natural landmarks. Now that we are familiar with these locations, we are working together to recreate some these places in our virtual world.
PASSPORT TO ART
This week, students explored artistic traditions from Africa through hands-on projects inspired by places such as Ghana and Kenya. They created Adinkra-inspired stamps to learn how symbols can communicate values and stories, practiced paper weaving inspired by Kente cloth while exploring the importance of patterns and textiles, and designed beaded jewelry using recycled paper as they learned about color and identity. Students also began researching a country of their choice to prepare their displays for our Open House “Art Around the World Museum.”
ROBOTICS WITH VEX
Students visited NP complete problems that plague automation and robotics systems. They learned how the complexity of these grow at n! (n factorial) rate and how sometimes good enough is enough.
- The travelling salesman problem expresses the complexity of planning an optimized route that a bot might have to travel to deliver packing orders in a large fulfillment center.
- The knapsack problem deals with how bots and algorithms must decide how best to pack a backpack or in a large automated fulfillment center’s case it might be how to pack a truck.
Students then revised their rules for Team Freeze Tag and Rocket League (robot soccer). We played our first team freeze tag and our second round of rocket league this week.
SLEUTH ACADEMY FOR JR. DETECTIVES
This week’s theme: Trace Evidence. Our detectives
– Learned about the different types of trace evidence.
– Prepared slides and used microscopes to observe and compare trace materials (hair and fibers).
– Learned how trace evidence is used to solve crimes.
After a hard week of solving crimes, our detectives enjoyed a well-earned day off with a fun walking field trip to Raising Cane’s.
STEAM WITH LEGO SPIKE
This week, students continued to create and program LEGO builds based on the “Quirky Creations” series.
STORYBOOK TO STAGE
-introduced to song “What Does the Fox Say?”
– worked on puppet choreography for the song
-practiced the puppet play, “The Great Race”
-created stick puppets to perform stories with
UNDERSEA ECOLOGY
This week we continued learning about apex predators, and began learning about decomposers. To learn about decomposers, I brought in a conspicuous sea cucumber from Kane’ohe. On Wednesday, we were able to go to the aquarium and connect what we’ve learned in class to real life animals and plants.