2017-2018 "Year in Review"
A few highlights from our ELP (extended learning program) groups, as created by the students:
- 4th Grade ELP Service Learning Project for The Ronald McDonald House
- collecting an 113, 250 pop/soup tabs
- A grand total of 1, 134,000 pop tabs have been donated by the Missouri Valley Little Reds!
- 5th Grade ELP Service Learning Project for The Giving Tree Project
- students called the Harrison County Food Pantry to ask for the most needed items
- students created morning school-wide announcements about collecting items for the food pantry
- students created posters and brochures to inform students about what to bring, when to bring items and our goal for items collected.
- K-1st ELP added pre-computer programming skills to our weekly small group time.
- www.code.org
- kodables
- Hour of Code
- 2nd Grade ELP groups developed early robotic skills using OSMO, bee-bots and pro-bots
- 3rd Grade ELP added a course 3 to their studio.code section
- vertical stacking of code
- understanding of angles (obtuse, acute, right angle) to create more complex puzzles and lines of code.
- Middle School ELP groups focused on Language Arts/Literacy
- comparing/contrasting various forms of text and media
- reading a wide variety of genres
- connecting text to social issues and/or character education traits
- creating virtual or traditional scrapbooks based off of biographies read
- participated in Southwest Iowa Middle School Battle of the Books (SWIMBOB)
- particpated in The Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl (online)
- adding Genius Hour to our class time (www.geniushour.com)
- model of a trebuchet
- original reader's theater about the Salem Witch Trials if it had happened in a Quaker community vs. a Puritan community (tied to novel "A Day No Pigs Would Die")
- creating an original coded storyboard about how to have a formal conversation (created to look like a virtual game of "catch"---a question is thrown to you, you throw back a response and a question.)
- Science experiments to crystallize egg shells, create "bouncy eggs" and how to make an egg shell see-through.
It was an exciting, exhilarating and educational year. I look forward to what a new school year will bring to our ELP groups. Have a wonderful summer vacation.
Yours in Education,
Mrs. C.
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