August/September
The beginning of the school year included learning routines, STEM behaviors, teamwork, and the role of an engineer.
Some of our favorite activities included:
Learning the habits of teamwork and collaboration to solve problems.
Exploring how engineers can use everyday objects to design solutions to a problem. With, a partner students worked to design and build something to take kids home from school. A focus on teamwork, communication, compromising, and creativity was highlighted throughout this lesson.
Reading Beautiful Oops and taking chances as we made our own beautiful "oops". (This book is a class favorite!)