What can we do with our worries?

Story and STEM today is Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes

and then I challenge you to create a worry jar or worry box.

Listen and find out:

What do you do with a problem?

Have you ever thought of a problem as an opportunity?

Well listen to this:

And then work on solving some problems of your own with coding:

Try out Scratch coding from MIT

SCRATCH Programming

or try some coding with Code.org

Code.org K-5 Coding

May the 4th be with you!

May the 4th be with you

Enjoy this Star Wars Story and then some Star wars coding

Code.org Star Wars link

Or a plethora of Star Wars STEM activities

Star Wars STEM activities link

Another Tale of Perseverance

The very Brave Irene shows a lot of 

perseverance in this story!

or you can hop on over to Facebook and see Mrs. Sauder 

read this story on the Parents of SW Elementary page.

Irene's mother is a seamstress and a designer, you too could be a designer today- draw and design some new clothes.

or visit PBS Kids and explore some design activities with Design Squad.

PBS Kids Design Squad Link

Perserverance and Math! May you use both!

Story and STEM: Hidden Figures

Head here to listen to Mrs. Sauder read the story

or listen to someone else read it here on YouTube

And... when you're done, head over to Greg Tang's Math 

website and play some math games to work on your math skills so that 

you too can be really good at Math.

Greg Tang's Math Games Link

Calling all young scientists

A little Story and STEM withAda Twist Scientist

Enjoy these fun games from SciGirls on PBS KidsSciGirls Games on PBS Kids Link

Today is your day- you decide what kind of day it will be

Story and STEM for the day...

Use Read, Write, Think and create your own shape poem in the shape of a heart:

ReadWriteThink Shape Poem Link

Heart of a Hero

And here is an escape room to enjoy!
Avengers Escape Room

A Day of Space Exploration- Story and STEM

Hi there,  Today's Read Aloud talks about a meteor!  

I can't get my read aloud to fit on here it's too big so either head on over to Facebook to the Parents of Southwestern Page or my Page or you can watch this YouTube video of someone else reading it here.  

        You can learn more about outer space and play games at NASA Kids Club

                 https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

And if you would like to make Alka Seltzer Rockets today....

Check out this link and have fun:

https://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/educator/activities/rockets

Jaime O'Rourke and the Big Potato

Happy St. Patrick's Day Trojans
Here's today's read aloud for home and a really fun activity to do outside.

You can make rainbow bubble snakes outside... regular bubbles or soap works fine

Click the link below for directions

Rainbow Bubble Snakes

Clever Tom and the Leprechaun- Story and Do At Home activity

Try to build a leprechaun trap at your house- use recyclables, pots, pans, craft supplies- be creative and use what you have.

Skyping with Thailand

Third Grade students in Mrs. Ohl's class 

skyped with a teacher in Thailand today.

We learned it's a 12 hour time difference.

She connected with us at 9:30 pm

People there speak Thai, love spicy foods, and fruit.

She lives in a small city of 5 million people. 😮

Her students are poor and work to 

help their families after school.

They have the next two weeks off for a 

cleaning vacation due to the Coronavirus- Covid19.

Elementary STEM Wars

This month Southwestern Schools hosted the first ever 

Elementary STEM Wars.

Our students competed in Maker Faire exhibitions, T-shirt Design, Catapults, Science Posters, Marble Runs, and Robotics.

Falconer, Frewsburg, Bemus Point, Chautauqua Lake, 

and Panama Schools all joined us.

What a fun event for everyone!

STEM stops not even for vacation!

Hi there Trojans!

Even on my vacation we stopped at the NASA Wallop Flight Center, 

check out these cool STEM jobs!

Update: Pumpkin Design Challenge

I didn't post this in October, but the school once again had the pumpkin challenge and designed a pumpkin to look like a book character.

Here are our winners:

And some of the amazing contenders:

The Great Donut Debate

Today we conducted a highly scientific blind taste test...

THE GREAT DONUT DEBATE

I mean who really does make the best donuts?

Well I can tell you now where you should spend your Saturday mornings.

Our contenders were Farm Fresh, Tim Horton's, Ecklof Bakery.

First Place went to ECKLOF BAKERY!
90%

Second Place- Farm Fresh

74%

Third Place

50%

We got to listen to Arnie the Donut on Storyline Online... a great and funny read.

Penguins!!!!

Kindergarten has been learning all about the animals of the arctic climates.

We explored Antarctica in this National Geographic 360 video:

We tried to see how tall different penguin species are:

We read about the Emperor Penguin:

And finally we designed ice floats--- rafts--- to keep our penguin safe and dry: