Spanish: Songs

The girls have had lots of fun learning Spanish songs this year.  Some of the girls asked if I could put links to some of the songs up on the blog so that they watch them at home so here they are. 

Billy la Bufanda story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cjV3gbex1E&t=23s

Billy la Bufanda song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTGxLc-lv0

Somos como las flores: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNS2uloUydQ

A Mi Burro:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkrMgGzN7E

Salta Salta:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBiFqDyAZGA

K-2 Spring Concert

https://youtu.be/fxWLysGtPbw

Marble Runs

Pre-firsters have been busy designing, building, testing, and revising their marble runs!

Spanish: Fun with Sock Puppets

The girls have been learning fruits and vegetables in Spanish.  They love feeding them to Lucia, and they are learning how to talk about which ones they like and which ones they do not like.  Yesterday we made puppet shows with the app Sock Puppets.  Here is a peek at a few of the girls.

Art_Marble Run Prototypes

This spring the girls are going to make marble runs in collaborative pairs using a collection of 3D materials like plastic tubes, paper towel rolls, yogurt cups, etc. The following videos show their individually made prototypes made of paper and tape. The challenge was to have a start and a finish and a path. The process was fail, fail, fail, fail, fail, SUCCEED! 

Empty Bowls

The pre-first girls are glazing their bowls for Empty Bowls. The Empty Bowls Dinner event is Thursday, February 15th from 5-7pm. It is a very popular community event, so sign up today! 

Hour of Code

This week, your daughter participated in the Hour of Code.  “The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries” (hourofcode.com).  We use this as an introduction to the programming your daughter will be doing throughout the year.  Learning the basics of programming reinforces problem solving and logic skills.

In Pre-First, we learned how to use basic directions (forward, turn left, turn right, jump, and light) to control Light Bot.  Next, we will learn how to use the Kodable app to learn more about programming and in the spring, we will use path to control the Dash robots!

If you would like your daughter to explore more at home, use this link.  Please note, different activities run on different devices and are appropriate for various ages.