Buddy Families and Coding Unit
/This week we finished our Rube Goldberg contraptions and teams had a chance to showcase their work to the class! It took much grit and persistence it to make a successful contraption. We’ve been reading a picture book called Rube Goldberg’s Simple, Normal, Humdrum School Day. This book is full of interesting contraptions and fun illustrations. On Tuesday students started a coding unit. They will be learning more about basic coding and digital citizenship. During writer’s workshop this week students have been busy creating handmade valentines for their classmates. Students used watercolors and sharpies to create gorgeous cards and write kind messages. We will continue working on both coding and valentine cards next week. At Friday Summit this week we added a new routine called buddy families. Each buddy family has about twelve members and is made up of a couple students from each class in the school. These multiage buddy families are a way for students make connections and build relationships with students and teachers across the school. Today we played a name game with our buddy families. Otters also had an opportunity to read to their Dolphin and Seal buddies this morning. Our students are really stepping up as leaders in our community! This afternoon we took a trip to the Pacific Library to stock up on reading materials. In other news this week, we enjoyed our first snowflakes of the season followed by hot cocoa and snow books, we found new fungus growing in our outdoor classroom, we celebrated a birthday, we finished our January calendar, and we enjoyed sunny afternoons spent with friends in the cedar classroom.
