It's December! Can you believe it? This year is going by so fast. I wanted to share with you the stations we have been working with in Makerspace these past two weeks. The first week in December is when we participate in the Hour of Code - this is an international website that encourages boys and girls of all ages to learn to code. It really helps promote computer science in all grade levels. We have done this for the past 3 years and the growth I see by the time my students are in second grade is incredible. So, to follow up with our Hour of Code I made all our Makerspace stations have to do with coding. I have included some pictures below. The stations are B-bots, Daisy the Dinosaur app, kodable.com, code.org, and coding Osmo. The students have done so well! Another thing I thought I'd explain here is Colt Day. Once or twice a month we have what's called a Colt Day here at Westwood. It is a day when each grade level comes to specials for an hour and a half instead of 45 minutes. This is to allow the teachers to work together as a team and to meet with administration all together. The grade levels are split for specials usually so they don't have the same conference time. This allows for collaboration and is very beneficial for teachers. So, the "thumbs" as we are called, take the kids and we have activities planned for them that are meaningful to their learning. We have had a fire truck visit, learned about health, celebrated holidays and even had special activities to help build our character. These days are so fun for the kids, even Nurse Migl says she doesn't see as many kids on Colt Days! Here are some pictures from last week's - I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and I am looking forward to 2019!
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AuthorI am Amy Boyer, media integration specialist at Westwood Elementary. I teach technology and run the library at a K-2 campus. Archives
December 2018
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