Friday, November 17, 2017

Being Thankful

Today I have set aside time to thank the donors who contributed money so that we could purchase a high quality 3D printer for our classroom.  Expectations from the DonorsChoose organization are:



An excellent way we can demonstrate our character traits of being respectful, responsible, honest and caring is to fulfill our obligation to the donors who supported our classroom by completing the actions suggested by the Donors Choose organization.

1.  We will take a picture of each class showing objects that we printed.  We will also take pictures of student designed 3D objects or of objects that you felt were really neat or significant.  I will upload these to the website.

2.  Students will write thank you letters - creative and fun letters are great!  The letters should be appropriate and could explain how using Tinkercad and a 3D printer caused you to think differently about what is possible in our futures or how they encouraged you to design or enjoy some object you created.  For example, do you remember the 3D printed heart we read about?  You don't need to mention the heart in your letter, but you might consider mentioning something else you have thought about.

3.  Mr. Delemeester will upload the pictures and read the thank you letters.  He will then write an overall impact statement thanking the donors.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

STEAM+C in Science 7



On Friday our students were busy creating parts for a rollercoaster, building robots, using microscopes, coding, and finishing up some cards for veterans.  Thank you to Mr. Loper, Mrs. Richardson, and Mrs. Rodriguez for helping our students with their projects this week.  We appreciate Mrs. Wickerham, Mrs. Hornak and Mrs. Kieffer for accomodating our need for more space and for helping our students find artistic expression and compassion in our world of science, technology, engineering, and math.  Thanks also to Ms. Kuchar for fostering an environment where we are encouraged to try new ways to think and to improve our school.