A variety of glaze options were presented to the Muons. The could choose between primary colors or glazes with effects. The first half of the Muons already glazed a few weeks ago. This week, the other half finished up. Since
Weekly Summary: 100 Point challenge – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym
For the last gym class this school year, we reviewed what we had done all year. Kids first got to say what they remembered and demonstrate / practice together. This was the prep for our 100 point challenge (an appendix
Weekly Summary: Eiffel Tower/marble maze – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM
The Neutrons and Electrons had two engineering projects to choose from this week… a group project of building an Eiffel Tower out of newspaper, or a solo project creating a marble maze using cardboard and popsicle sticks. Interestingly enough, most
Weekly Summary: Kicking and soccer – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym
We used the beautiful weather today to make it feel like summer! For warmup, we used hula hoops to hula on our waist and arms, jump through them and play games with the hoops. Then we switched to a beach
Weekly Summary: Metal Tooling – Quarks – Art
Last week we experimented with metal tooling. Each kiddo created their own design on paper first. We then taped that over a piece of heavy gauge aluminum and used paint brush handles to trace over that design effectively embossing the
Weekly Summary: Nature Story telling – Neutrons – Nature Study
This week we took our story-telling skills from last week and honed in on natural elements to weave into our stories. We attempted to take a hike, but the trail we chose was a bit wet, to say the least,
Weekly Summary: Rocks – Quarks – STEM
We continued our rock discussions this week. We began with a classification activity where they had to cut and paste pictures of rocks and decide if they were igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. There were some healthy discussions about how how
Weekly Summary: Pi Celebration – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM
In honor of Pi Day (3/14) we spent STEM discussing all things pi. We had a reading of Sir Cumfrence and the Dragon of Pi and then played a dice game based on the digits of pi. I had another
Weekly Summary: Paragraphs Part 1: Evidence! – Muons – Writer’s Workshop
As we’re beginning to draft our essays, I reviewed the basics of evidence and its role in argument (generally) and body paragraphs (specifically). Most students REALLY struggle with finding and explaining evidence, so I tried to normalize that struggle. Indeed,
Weekly Summary: Lunges – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym
The focus of this week’s class was lunges. We talked a bit about form and what muscles are involved (quadriceps and gluts are the main ones but the core along with some calf muscles are also very important! The muons