Elementary STREAMS and Outdoor Environment 01.26.2020

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Last week in STREAMS we got creative and made posters to hang around campus to help us collect milk cartons. We are well on our way to the 100 required cartons for the project, and we hope to get there within two weeks so that we can start building and planting. We also circled through stations that included LED circuits, working on our art projects for Atlantis, and tending to our indoor seed starts.

Finally, we voted on names for our two new chickens. We started with a list over 100 suggestions from the students, which was narrowed down to 20, then 10, and finally 6 before our final vote. The results are in, and we are pleased to announce Skipper (the red/brown chicken who lays blue/green eggs), and Pepper (the black/spackled chicken who lays brown eggs). Skipper, Pepper, and Otis are all settled in and enjoying time in the sun!

In Outdoor Environment, we were able to get out into our garden several times, thanks to the beautiful weather we have been having. Students (and teachers!) worked hard on weeding out all of the stray plants that have popped up due to all the rain a few weeks ago. We also raked leaves, gave our worms fresh bedding, and did some heavy work by transferring the thick mud leftover from instrument installation into a bucket for later use.

We look forward to much more time in our garden in the coming week!

Don’t forget that STEM Fest is this Saturday at the Power Campus. We will have a Montessori STREAMS table set up with some interactive activities to showcase what we have been working on this quarter. I hope you are able to stop by and say hello!