The decision was suddenly made 2 weeks ago to return me to my special of STEAM by administration.
Okay - so on a Friday - I had to figure out how to regroup and teach my class. Oh wait - I was going to be teaching a double class of STEAM and library with an extra adult to help (aides and/or principals!).
I was ready but not ready for this experience. My class of students that I had been with for 7 days was now divided among the 4 other classrooms at that grade level.
So I pulled out my Dot Day lesson plan with modifications like NO technology.
Originally...students read the book called "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds
Starting on September 8, I started doing a Farm to Table lesson about Zucchini Bread. My last group got bread on October 1. It took 3 weeks to teach a lesson to every student. I ended up making 30+ loaves of zucchini bread. I think it was 12-15 batches of zucchini bread. I have left over eggs and need to use them up ASAP. However, most of the frozen zucchini has been used at school!
Students watched a cooking demonstration, discussed what is zucchini, tasted the bread, and more!
It was a busy time with the oven in a completely different wing of the school...but we made it work.
I would say that 95% of the students tried it and over 90% LOVED the recipe. I do not have many pictures because it is hard to demonstrate and take pictures.
PUMPKIN RUN
In addition, the librarian and I made sure to share the story of the "Pumpkin Runner with almost all 500 students in STEAM and/or library. This even meant a co-teaching day!
The event at the track was AWESOME!
As you can see, it has been a crazy first 22 days of school. I have been out of my room about 9-10 days.
I did hang my first week of school projects too! Those were all about initials and names. I called it a creativity design challenge!
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