Maker Tank Magic

Wow! I am not sure when I have ever been so impressed with our student's creativity and innovation! Our amazing children created inventions to solve a problem in their lives that has been bugging them. They researched how to solve this problem, created a blueprint for their invention, and then built the prototype and brought it to school. We presented our projects to our classmates and choose a winner to represent us at our school wide Shark Tank style Maker Tank Talent Show on February 21st. Here are our friends' projects and our winner!

Our winner--Slip Clips

M 2 B (Milk to Bowl)

The Organizer

The Hook

Addition Machine

Snack Helmet

Glow Path

Milk Flash

Candy Flash

Dinosaur Stand

Winter Wonderland Art Adventure

Our Kindergarten-Second Grade students stayed after school recently to enjoy a Winter Wonderland Art Adventure benefiting our Find Your Light Service Project. Our students had an awesome time creating pasta snowflakes, a snowy picture with sand art, and snowmen made from socks. We also enjoyed hot chocolate and made paw prints in the snow! Not only did we have a great time, but we were able to continue to add funds to our service project! Here are some adorable pictures from our art adventure afternoon! We hope you enjoy them!

Music Around the World--Week 3--Latin America

What a fun day we had in our third day of Music Around the World! We learned about Latin America and the exciting music that this country has to offer. We were introduced to two of their favorite instruments the guiro and the maracas. We also enjoyed two of their favorite songs, "La Raspa", and a traditional Latin American song, "De Colores." Check out our video from our fun day and some of our favorite pictures.

https://vimeo.com/314949362

Procedural Text--How Tos

This week we studied procedural texts and the importance of following directions when you are using a "how to" text to create something. We also took this opportunity to create our own "how to" story where we taught our reader how to do something that we were an expert at. Here is the process our amazingly talented Kindergartners went through to create their own how to stories.

We were introduced to procedural text by making our very own grill cheese sandwiches in class.

Next, we practiced our sequencing skills and used sequencing words such as first, next, then, and last to retell a story. 

Then, we began to create our own how to story by using an outline to draw out the steps for something that we knew how to do on an expert level. 

Finally, we turned our outlines into our very own how to stories. 

https://vimeo.com/314951227