Science Conference

I am attending a Science conference in Charlotte, NC this week. I’m already getting a boat load of ideas and can’t wait to share them with the students and teachers. Stay tuned...

Scholastic Christmas Orders

Just in time for Christmas!!

If you would like to place a book order that benefits the library, please use code N94FK when ordering on line.

https://clubs.scholastic.com/homedef?esp=CORPHP%2Fib%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FNAV%2FReadingClub%2FTOUT%2FLetsGo%2F%2F%2F%2F

The order will be placed next Friday, Dec. 7th so that it arrives in time for Christmas. If there is a surprise in your order, please email me so that I can email you directly when it arrives.

annmarie.ghio@sascolts.org

Camp Invention Summer 2019 is live!

Camp Invention is now LIVE at campinvention.org and ready to take registrations.

Save the date: 
St. Ann Catholic School
June 3rd - 7th from 9:00am - 3:30pm 

For more information, email Ms. Ghio @ annmarie.ghio@sascolts.org

STREAM Night is on!

Even though the school is closed today, we’ve been given permission by the CDOM to move forward with STREAM Night. 

Hope to see you all at the school gym from 5:30pm- 7pm. 

Why come to STREAM Night this Thursday?

Your student’s STREAM project will be on display along with the entire school. Some are even interactive, so come ready to play!

Curious about robots and medical interventions like laparoscopy?  Visit with reps from the CBHS Co-STEMM table.

Need ideas for STEM related books and toys? Stop by the Knowledge Tree table.

Ever coded with cubes? You can with ambassadors from the West TN STEM Hub.

Want to solve a Rubik cube? Come try! There is even a take home engineering activity for the family.

Your child/grandchild can make a dog bone carrier for our robot dogs, help baby Moses make it down the Nile River, and create a stop motion movie. Oh, yeah, and of course, there will be glow-in-the-dark slime.

See you Thursday night in the school gym from 5:30pm – 7pm. Free admission!

Finishing touches

First graders put the finishing touches on their inventions and wrote their project descriptions. Then they used the Rubik cubes to make letters and patterns. Lucy also solved one complete side!!

West TN STEM Hub

Ambassadors from the West TN STEM Hub demonstrated Cubelets (coding cubes) to the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders today. They will be back for STREAM Night on Thursday, Nov. 15th from 5:30pm - 7pm in the school gym.

STREAM Night

Our fall STREAM Night is a free event on Thursday, Nov. 15th from 5:30pm - 7pm in the school gym. It is open to all St. Ann PRE and school students, their families, and guests. 

There will be a student showcase of STREAM projects from grades Pre-K 3 - 8th grade, SPARKS, and STREAM classes, plus a live egg drop by the 5th grade at 5:45pm. 

There will also be hands-on activities, including: 

- Rubik cube challenges
- Cubelets (coding challenges) with the West TN STEM Hub
- Making glow-in-the dark slime and testing it
- Designing and building a dog bone carrier for a robotic dog

- Learning activities using Stop Motion with our SPARKS students

- Designing and constructing a basket for baby Moses to float safely down the Nile River

- CBHS Co-STEMM Lab will have Robots and Medical Interventions that mimics how laparoscopic surgery is performed

- Display of STEM games and toys from Knowledge Tree

Engineering: Stack the Cats

As Pre-K4 read Stack the Cat, we discussed what an engineer does, learned the meaning of the words teeter and rooter, and then added and subracted cats. SO of course, we had to practice stacking and counting, just not with cats!

Peer Learning

Most of what we do is project-based, working in pairs or small groups. Sometimes students research on their own, then come back together as a group and share. This strategy ensures that all students are actively and purposefully contributing. Other times, they work together on research and planning, assigning roles. One of my favorite strategies is having the students go to team members—or even another team— for help when they’re stuck. I could easily give them the answer, but then their learning hasn’t been as meaningful.  In fact, they may not have even learned anything. It’s challenging for them, but I promise, in the end, it will make them better live-long leaners.

Three important words in the SREAM vocabulary:
Perseverance
Grit
YET! (as in ....I just don’t know it YET!)