Designing, Coding and More!

This past week the children were involved with several design challenges- some that were structured and some that were not.  Take a look below at friends teaming up to build matching, symmetrical structures out of Zoobs and pattern blocks.

Below is a duo feeling proud of their unit block structure and a group of children exploring Pentominos.

On Thursday we extending on the coding skills we learned earlier in the year in the library with Mrs. MacDonald and programmed BEE BOTS with Ms. Corcelle!  Here you can see her getting the whole group acquainted with the robotic bee and then us splitting off into pairs to program the bees to reach various shapes on the mats.

Even with taking time to design, build and code we managed to get in writing letters to the US Olympic Nordic Ski team (thanks to Mr. White's connections) and work in a new "Numbers Galore" book in Math.   All in a week's work!