Student read "12 Sleighs of Christmas". Then they had to design a new sleigh using 1 straw, 1/2 piece of construction paper, 1 pipe cleaner, and 1 egg carton section.The challenge was in getting Elmer's glue to dry and stick on the Styrofoam. I think that we could have skipped this material.
The goal is to get them to slide down a "zip line" since Santa's sleigh needs to fly. I gave them 10 minutes the first class, 40 minutes the second class, etc...
Another challenge was storage! How do you store 100 gluey sticky creations flat?
Overall, the students are having fun and I am seeing their unique personalities!
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| A Sleigh is started here |
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| Can we test our sleighs like engineers? Great question from this student! So we created a second make shift zip line. |
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| Sleigh in process! |
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| This student thought outside the box then inspired/helped friends! |
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| Engineering is a messy process of trying to figure it out! |
1st and 2nd graders are working on the basics of coding. I have not done coding so soon and they are ROCKING it! First we read "How to Code a Sandcastle" for background. This was much more readable for this age level.
Next, we started with Snoopy Snowball Battle from Hour of Code and Code Sparks.
Snoopy Snowball Battle
Finally, this week started doing Google's Santa Village website. It has several coding games built into it for first grade.
Here is the link to Santa's Village
Second grade is trying out Grinch Hour of Code. Two of the students in second grade completed all 20 levels in less than 1 hour! They loved seeing Wattsburg School district on the "Hour of Code" website.
Link to Grinch Hour of Code
Link to Hour of Code
Finally, third and fourth grade completed the Binary Code ornament activities. I did this two years ago. I felt like that it went so much better this time. I understood the topic, more organized, and had better video resources.
You can see my previous post here - Binary Ornaments 2016
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This week, we are doing more holiday fun and finish up the activities above!
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