Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

We enjoyed some Dr. Seuss stories today and wore our fun hats in honor of his birthday!

Engineering Week in 1st Grade

During Engineering Week we had special events and activities every day and the students had a blast!  

We had a visiting engineer from Lockheed Martin who showed us some of the airplanes they design and told us about different kinds of engineering.  

We went to the media lab and had our first (and second) experience with Lego WeDo Robotics.  First the students followed the step-by-step instructions to get the correct pieces and build the structure.  Then they followed the instructions to create the coding to tell it to move.  Then they got to alter the coding to make it do something else on their own.  Everyone was successful on our first visit and there was a lot of enthusiasm for this activity.  We will return several times to build some of the other structures!

We went to the library for some special makerspaces activities including building a maze for a "brushbot", creating a car and testing it on a ramp, creating something that would catch the wind in the wind tunnel, and trying out a variety of hands-on electronic puzzles.  These activities were fast and left the kids wanting to do more!

Finally we got to experience Google Expeditions and visit places around the world with the 3D 360° images.  We saw animals in the San Diego zoo, Angel Falls, California's giant redwoods, the pyramids in Egypt, and some undersea creatures.  And all of this without ever leaving the school!