Welcome Back Core 2 Parents!
I hope that everyone had a wonderful winter break! I had a great break, but truly missed your kiddos! I am ready to get back to our days full of learning, playing, and exploration! (Side note: I had the chance to visit the Exploratorium up in San Francisco over the break. If you ever find yourselves up in that neck of the woods, I highly recommend it for both kids and adults.) I wanted to thank all of you again for all of the generous gifts, cards, and all around good vibes that I received before break! I feel so lucky to work with all of you and to have the opportunity to spend my days with your kids! I wanted to give you the first look at our next project. Both Patrick and I have been working all week to fine tune our plans, and we are beyond excited about this next project. Tinkertown: Students will build an understanding of how cities work and the different vital parts of a city. They will work together as a whole class to come up with a vision of a city that has all of the necessary components in order to meet the citizen’s needs (food, water, structures, transportation, energy) and draw a map of that city together. They will go through an authentic design process while planning and building models of their city. Students will build models of structures and vehicles that incorporate electricity and use basic principles of motion and force which we will be learning along the way. Students will also explore how people hold different roles within a city and work together to make the community serve their citizen’s needs. (Find the complete Project Overview under the "Projects" tab) We will be spending an hour a week in the Innovation Station (DVIA’s new maker space) and we will be building a model of a city in the classroom. There are a lot of ways that you can extend the work we will be doing at home. We will be giving you a list of home extensions, along with communicating ideas along the way. We wanted to offer a reconnecting meeting this Thursday and Friday after school (it is not mandatory). We will be meeting from 3:15-4:15 on Thursday and Friday in Patrick’s room to discuss the new Tinkertown project, home extensions for the project, and some brainstorming on the next semester with regards to reading. We would love if you can make it! Comments are closed.
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