This week in STEM, the 2/3 class of engineers practiced an important step of the Engineering Design Process: Improve! After building paper houses with working circuits last… Read more “Engineers Improve on their Designs!”
Month: March 2018
PBL Share: Thursday, April 5!
Dear Vermont Day School Families (& Friends!), The K/1, 2/3, 3/4, & 5/6 classes are enthusiastically wrapping up our third round of projects and are excited to… Read more “PBL Share: Thursday, April 5!”
Practicing with Paper Circuits!
This week in STEM, the 2/3 class practiced making a working circuit for a piece of art. This was practice for their final product, in which they… Read more “Practicing with Paper Circuits!”
Music News
The 2/3 class completed a fantastic study of sound and musical instruments of the orchestra, culminating in a “create your own instrument day” with many amazing creations… Read more “Music News”
Digital iPad Art!!!
The 2/3 artists learned how to make digital art by using the Drawing Pad app on the iPads. Artists partnered up and completed a scavenger hunt to… Read more “Digital iPad Art!!!”
Exploring Conductors and Insulators
This week in STEM, the 2/3 class continued exploring the important parts of a circuit, and how to use the steps of the engineering design process. They… Read more “Exploring Conductors and Insulators”
Engineering: Circuit Diagrams and Blueprints!
This week in STEM, the 2/3 class explored one of their “need to knows” for this project on engineering and circuitry: What do engineers do? To answer… Read more “Engineering: Circuit Diagrams and Blueprints!”
Math News
Time……….. We have been learning about time as a whole group. We started with telling time, a.m. and p.m., elapsed time and past or future time. This… Read more “Math News”