The sign (pictured above) was part of Kindergartens celebration, my collaborating teacher created something similar the year before and it had been a big hit. It was really sweet watching our Kindergarteners react to walking through it, a few thought you were supposed to touch it and crawled underneath it to get into the room but most were excited to walk through and feel the paper on their faces. It was a crazy fun day, and my teacher and I spent some time discussing how much our kids have grown in the past 100 days.
Dr. Davis gave some wonderful prompts to respond to about STEM Fair judging, the one I choose to use is In what ways did your participation in the STEM Fair connect with your learning from SCE 4310?
I felt my science classes learning throughout the day at STEM Fair. Science is social, (a nature of science standard) the students came up with projects they were interested in and then created a project that matched what they had chosen to work on. The students then spent time in groups or individually working of these projects, after which they were judged to see if they were going onto the next step of STEM Fair. When the kids got to us, the STEM Fair judges, they then had to explain what they had done and answer any questions we had about what they did. It amazed me how knowledgable some students were about what they had done, they had spent so much time working to create the results of what they did and it was awesome getting to watch them speak about what they had learned. Pictured above in the name tag given to the judges.
I just wanted to post about how wonderful it is to have such a close and connected group of individuals who support each other as we approach graduation. Pictured above is a coffee cup a near and dear friend of mine let me use when I spent the night at her house because I left my keys elsewhere and she was kind enough to drive me to school the next morning for class. I've linked her blog below because she's an amazing friend and fellow teacher.
http://rebeccafiore.weebly.com/blog
And that's all for this week,
Ms. Brookes