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Weekly Summary: 100 Point challenge – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

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

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Weekly Summary: Eiffel Tower/marble maze – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

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

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Weekly Summary: Kicking and soccer – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

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

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Weekly Summary: Pi Celebration – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

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

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Weekly Summary: Lunges – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

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

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Weekly Summary: Making paddle boats – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

Weekly Summary: Making paddle boats – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

We took advantage of the beautiful weather to work outside and enjoy some water play, even if contained in a plastic kiddie pool. The Neutrons and Electrons were shown a couple of examples of paddle boats and given access to

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Weekly Summary: Easter Movement – Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

Weekly Summary: Easter Movement – Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

Thanks to the wonderful preparation and printouts by Alison, gym was an Easter-themed blast this week! After a brief warm-up, the kids rotated through stations including “hatching out of the egg” (start in a squat and break the egg shell

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Weekly Summary: Write it/do it – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

Weekly Summary: Write it/do it – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

Each group was split in two to work together to create instructions for the other group to complete a specified “build” or structure, a concept borrowed from Science Olympiad. They then switched instructions and tried to recreate the “build” using

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Weekly Summary: Four Strikes You’re Out – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

Weekly Summary: Four Strikes You’re Out – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

The Neutrons and Electrons played a game called Four Strikes You’re Out, which I’m so grateful Elizabeth shared with me. Here is a description of how the game is played: https://marilynburnsmath.com/four-strikes-and-youre-out/ Rather than breaking into pairs, we played the game

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Weekly Summary: 1-point Perspective Drawing – Electrons and Neutrons – Art

Weekly Summary: 1-point Perspective Drawing – Electrons and Neutrons – Art

For the last 2 weeks in Art, both the Neutrons and Electrons have been working on the concept of perspective in drawings. During the first period, we discussed how implementing concepts like 1-point perspective and vanishing points can help make

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