Senior Kindergarten Study of Bolivia and the Potato Printing Project

Senior Kindergarten is learning about Bolivian culture and potatoes are native to that country. We designed a collaborative unit where the librarian read The Potato King to the students. In technology time the students designed cookie cutters using cookiecaster.com and the. We 3D printed them to turn them into potato stamps. The students cut shapes out of potatoes using their stamps and made patterns with paint, which is a math concept being practiced this month.

Patterns

Cutting potatoes with 3D printed cookie cutters.

Lots of paint!

Potting potatoes for the garden

Learning to weave, inspired by tradition.

Cookie cutter app

Saturday Thing Fun

Aqueduct Designs in Latin Class

MacBeth Garment Project in 7th Grade English Class

Mr. Tahmaseb's English class read MacBeth and had to design and create a garment that would help explain a character from the play. They also wrote arguments to explain the decisions behind the fabric, style, color, and texture.

First Grade Marshmallow Challenge

During Technology Class the first graders tackled the marshmallow challenge.  Mr. Scafati caught it on film as well and it became part of the youtube video, below.

Third grade design thinking project for the Waltham Families School

The third grade visited our preschool friends at the Waltham Families School and spent the morning in choice time, playing games in the gym, and getting to know their parents who are enrolled in the ESL program there. We brought board games to teach to the parents and interviewed them to learn about their backgrounds.

Now, in Ms. Meeta's math class, students are design thinking a solution for picture book storage at home for their new found friends. 

Before visiting, students came up with a list of four year old traits. 

Circle time in preschool.

Meeting the teachers

Empathy Map after our visit..

Students organizing more questions to ask of their clients.

Playing with our friends. 

Third Grade Visited NuVu Studio and learned a few things about what goes on there.

This is the beginning of planning for third grade Open Studio in April.

NuVu students sharing their inventions with Meadowbrook Students. The high school students were getting ready for their final presentations the next day and had great prototypes to share. 

Mr. Taylor boiling sap into maple syrup for middle school Science classes.

Mr. Richard brought 2nd Graders to the EurekaLab to make recycled materials into possible shelters for woodland animals.

Fifth grade creativity shows during morning drop in time

Art Tech In Middke School

A new semester begins and new stools get vinyl stickers. 

Afterschool in the Eurekalab

Learning to engrave and cut on the laser cutter. 

First Grade Inquiry Lesson on Electric Circuits

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Second Grade Making Costumes of Rain Forest Animals

Here is a sneak preview for Friday's upcoming assembly.  The second Grade is busy making costumes in the eurekalab.

Maker's lab after school - copper tape circuits

Maker's lab after school k-2

Make the tallest building possible from cups and popsicle sticks. 

Fourth Grade Morning Drop-In

The first Fourth grade preschool drop in was well attended this morning with students learning gravit.io so they can start creating vinyl cut stickers. 

Third grade: Horton's Marvelous Mechanisms

Third grade celebrated the reading of Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure by Lissa Evans by doing a breakoutedu challenge and using the eurekalab to build this fabulous 3D recycleables map of the town in the story.

Tangrams in second grade math

Tangrams designed by second graders on gravit.io and then produced on the laser cutter this week with Mrs. Corbiere's math class. 

Second grade rainforest costumes

The Amazon rainforest unit is in full swing and the second graders will be constructing costumes for their upcoming play. Mrs. Palmer got them started this week in the EurekaLab.