Techie Tuesday.
Challenge: Build a maze and program the Bee Bot to get through it.
Techie Tuesday.
Challenge: Build a maze and program the Bee Bot to get through it.
The notes went home … bring boxes of all shapes and sizes. We have been bringing every box we can lay our hands on to school ever since that day. It seems like ages ago but not really!
At last it is Monday – Make It Monday!!!! We are Makers.
Boxes, boxes and more boxes and yet more boxes … what are we going to be doing?
We had to do lots of Reading, Writing and Maths. When were we going to get to the FUN part of the day? At last! What will our challenge be?
Building buildings! Imagining our Main Street. Working together creating challenging having fun.
Have you seen our Bee Bots? We’ll be having fun with them and our Main Street soon.
We are some of the Stage 1 Mini-Makers. Our teacher challenges our imagination and creativity. We think about making the things we imagine after talking and working together with our teacher.
Our teacher encourages us to think critically and creatively. We use lots of leftover goodies to make our amazing imaginings. Sometimes we use our digital age skills and sometimes we don’t.
Our teachers provide us with opportunities to:
Our Mini-Maker Program draws on the arts, music, engineering, design and computer science skills.
Making is not a novelty, a fad or a trend that will fade it is a way of learning by doing. Our students have authentic problems to solve, they are challenged to think creatively and critically, reflect and re-do if need be. Our Mini- Makers program is based on the premise that children engage with learning when it is challenging and fun.
Implementation
Stay tuned as we show you what we do as we work through our exciting and interesting week.