Our class has been busy this week getting settled into 1st grade! We have worked on being a team and how to work with partners. We have talked about our school theme this year: superheroes! We will keep coming back to this topic this year: What are our own superpowers (things we are good at)? What can we do to help make the world a better place? what can we teach others and what can we learn from others? And, of course, since we are a STEM campus, we have done several engineering/building challenges. Students have enjoyed getting their hands into things right away.
Since Superman can leap tall buildings, 1st graders worked together to build the tallest structure they could with 25 Keva blocks:
Since some superheroes have incredible strength, 1st graders used 25 blocks to build strong towers and tested them with a heavy bucket of blocks:
We also had some free exploration time in the library to see what they could create with the different materials there:
The students worked together to complete a cup challenge. They could not touch the cups with their hands, but had to use the rubber band and yarn tool to stack the cups and then line them up by alternating colors!
The students worked together to complete a cup challenge. They could not touch the cups with their hands, but had to use the rubber band and yarn tool to stack the cups and then line them up by alternating colors!
We are looking forward to a lot more learning fun!
