STEM Rec Challenges April 29- May 3 The sun is starting to come put more and the temps are rising. STEMRec spends quiet a bit of time outside. Please remind your children to put sunscreen on before and during school. Drama Open Scenes. Older grades will be doing short open scenes. These are scenes in which the dialogue is sparse and teaches actors to make specific choices in order to inform the dialogue. Dramatic skills include objective, tactic, reaction, story and character creation, and cooperation. Rain Forest Animals. Younger grades will get to explore the different levels of the rain forest/play structure by acting out different animals found in the rain forest. They will learn about making specific movement choices as we discuss each animal. What would these animals say to each other if they could speak? What would each animal want? What possible conflicts would they have with each other? How would you resolve this conflict? Literacy What Makes Me Sp...
STEM Rec Challenges March 5-9, 2018 Science The World Around Us. For our final microscope week students will be making their own slides by scavenging for specimens from our STEMrec area and garden. What do everyday objects look like when magnified 400 times? Literacy Pictionary. Get your drawing skills ready! In literacy our focus will be on people, places and things. Or in other words, we're talking about nouns and we will be playing a fun version of Pictionary to practice our knowledge of this important concept. Social Studies Welcome to the OSS . Since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we need more secret agents. We'll be working with MI5 to train you. Maybe you can help us stop the war. Technology & Math Coding. Math and technology are teaming up to teach our students coding. The younger grades will be learning “LightBot”, a puzzle game based on coding. This game secretly teaches students programming logic as they play. The olde...
STEMrec Challenges October 15- 17 Math Color by Equation Solve simple math problems and color the math page to create a picture. This guided lessons helps the students master this concept, focusing on shape, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Having a firm grasp of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is crucial for math fluency. Science Blood Students will learn the different roles of red, and white blood cells. Also we will be learning the importance of oxygen during exercise to help blood move faster we will be demonstrating this importance through an outdoor running activity. Literacy Sneaky Story Makers- Students in literacy this week will be reviewing all the elements of a story they have talked about in STEM so far and applying them into the fun running game called sneaky story makers. Art Egyptian Characters In ancient Egypt names we're not written with traditional letters they were written with characters we will be expl...