Engineering with a Partner

Today the scholars worked with a partner using Keva Planks to complete the Brain Builders challenge. The classroom was buzzing with great communication and much excitement over accomplishing each new challenge!

From School to Home

I just love when something we have done or learned continues at home!  After only two days, Liam returned to school bringing a real world connection to our previous day's engineering challenge.  Liam and his dad found pictures illustrating a structure extending from another.....a cantilever. Liam did a great job sharing these pictures and from here the class began making several other real world connections!

Our 2nd Day!

My awesome engineers arrived this morning and demonstrated that they already knew our arrival routine! Our Mini Engineering Challenge today was to use 20 Keva Planks and design a way to have them extend off the edge of their table. One engineer actually extended 10 inches off the table. This challenge provided great discussion for weight and weight distribution. These engineers are also learning that failure is a good thing because we learn from what went wrong! We also had fun with our brain break, Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Our 1st Day 2015/2016!

Today was the first day of the new school year and I had the pleasure to welcome 18 awesome scholars to Room B-6!  The scholars had a fantastic day of team building, brain breaks, a mini design challenge, story time and of course the usual learning of routines.