Recycling & Video Games & Research!

It’s been a great Spring!

With so much technology at our disposal, it’s nice to get some fresh air and enjoy God’s creation and this awesome weather! And while we’re at it, why not take care of it!

That’s what the students have been focusing on this Spring…

Some time indoors designing, creating and playing their own video game and/or researching…

and then…

getting some fresh air to learn how to take care of God’s earth!

The teacher learns from the student though…

Especially yesterday, as we welcomed Ms. Ramos into our classroom as our guest Teacher for the Day!

She read to us …”Little Monsters Guide”, “The Computer Teacher from the Black Lagoon” and “Goodnight iPad”! And then taught us how to take care of our technology tools and gadgets and how even inanimate objects also need to be treated with respect 🙂

Then, she took us outside to go on a scavenger hunt to find things we can recycle or throw away around the school. We also found some of God’s creatures and living things like flowers, plants, butterflies, carpenter bees (or wood bees as the kids like to call them 😉 )

WAIT…there’s more!!!!!

YES!

Ms. Ramos took us back to the classroom to discuss our findings and award us a special prize: a lollipop!

We had so much fun combining the learnings of technology with the learnings of nature!

During our regularly scheduled program, we have been designing our very own video game in grades 3-5th. The students are learning how to design, create, debug, package and publish their own video game they can play. They have worked hard at learning the basics of programming and coding, so now it’s time to put those learnings to work and cook the meal (video game) using the recipe (coding/programming). That way we have a meal we can share and enjoy! I hope that analogy made sense 🙂

The students in K-2nd grade have been learning how to research using the search engines and YouTube Kids.

3rd grade has been learning how to organize their findings using Google Slides!

3rd grade is working on the 13 colonies!

Kinder and 1st on planets!

2nd grade on sea animals!