Electives

This is our social contract! Students will be held to his expectation all session.

Session 3.2 is our Maker Fair. This is a new activity for Bell and I can't to add this to our Family STEAM Night. The students started the elective getting into groups to start a business with. The came up with a name, a product they wanted to make and non-profit they wanted to donate their proceeds too. I am so proud of all of there hard work and I can't wait to see them selling in action. Come check them out at STEAM Night on Tuesday, March 18th!

Cardboard Candy

Apple Cat

Blooming Bracelets

Cutzey Surprise

Lanyard's For Life

Fidgets For Food

Noodle Bracelets Ltd.

The businesses will be donating to...

The Common Pantry

PAWS Chicago

UNICEF

World Wildlife Foundation

Feed My Starving Children

Red Cross Chicago

School Nutrition Foundation

The kids tables were at STEAM Night! All together they raised $923 for their charities. Here they are in action!

Session 3.1 is Mini Golf round two! So excited to have the kids creating our final six holes for our course opening March 18th. We welcomed Ms. Lazar's class to try out our prototypes and vote on their favorites. Those are the 6 we built out of wood.

Session 2.2 is hard at work sewing their monsters for their Kindergarten buddy! This this the second time we have offered this elective. This class was paired up with rooms 102 and 106. Look at all of their hard work...and all those smiles!

At the end of the session the kids competed in the school competition . We have celebrity judges and the winner from our competition will go on to compete in the regional competition. Cyberbloxz win our class competition . Check out all our pictures and our feature on Channel 7.

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Our third elective for Session 2.1 is Lego Robotics Competition! The class began the elective learning all about the First Lego League. Then each student completed a self evaluation on how they feel about their coding, Lego building and presentation skills. They also selected classmates they want on their team. Mr. Chan and Mrs. Athanas put the kids in teams and then competition prep began! During these 4 weeks the teams will go on a rotation of working on missions for the challenge board and working on their presentation.

This is our competition board

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Way To Go SID!

Releasing the shark is 20 points on the game board!

Our second elective for Session 1.2 is Building our mini golf course! The class first build their ideas on a cardboard prototype. The second graders came to play the holes and to vote on their favorites. Then the top 5 holes were picked from the votes and we made them out of wood. These will be the first holes for our new course coming March 2025.

Cardboard Prototypes

Our first elective for Session 1.1 is Sewing and Embroidery! Right now the students are working on the Monster Project. Each 7th & 8th grader will interview two Kindergarten students about the monster in their head. After they draw their monster the big kids will sew it into the stuffie of their dreams!

It's Interview day!

We are so excited to make monsters for Room 101 and 119.