Great discussion about Ch.3 Communication & Relationships at the SENG Model Parent Group Meeting Norterra Canyon! Thanks to Adam Laningham Bright Child AZ for facilitating our group & to the Deer Valley Unified School District growing together in this learning.

When you hear ice cream truck music outside your class, take a peek! Dreamsicle makings delivered by Norterra Canyon admin to thank us for “crushing it” in Q1! Top it off w/CodeJoy Project Trix & Micro:bit Educational Foundation for Gr.5&6+ KEVA® Planks arriving thx to #Lubriderm=1 sweet day!

“EUREKA!” Ashley Spires 🧚‍♂️Your gracious gift of 2 fantastic #FairyScience books, autographed to my Norterra Canyon DV Gifted Services Pirates, arrived!Ss are going to flip out as these 📚, along with The Most Magnificent Thing, will SPARK us to explore, examine & enjoy! Many thanks!🧚‍♀️💜

#WorldTeachersDay saw the 🌟✨align Norterra Canyon SPARK (literally w/microbit starry night coding & figuratively w/funding thanks to: GoGuardian Gives for selecting us this month; Verizon Up for DC gift card codes; & Arizona Department of Education for a 2x match maximizing donations! Deer Valley Unified School District

1st Norterra Canyon 22/23 IBMYP Gifted Workshop today!Gifted 7th/8th Ss learning about self-advocacy & rights/responsibilities in their own education. Thx to advocates who joined us: Mrs. Murray Barry Goldwater High; Mrs. Yates,SDOHS; Mrs.Baker, Parent; Ms.Tollefson, NC Counselor Deer Valley Unified School District

Oct. is National Principals Month, so 5th SPARK completed a top secret project:Mission Milks! They ❤️ our Norterra Canyon principal & used microbits to relay that message. One S even coded the tune of A Pirates Life for Me!🏴‍☠️#extraordinary Deer Valley Unified School District Micro:bit Educational Foundation CodeJoy

My Norterra Canyon 1st & 2nd SPARK Ss said “Eureka! Let’s make science labs.” So we did & learned basics of electricity & fluorescence to light them so Esther 🧚‍♂️ can do nighttime experiments! Thanks again Ashley Spires for your #FairyScience books. They magically inspired us! 🪄

Great fun Norterra Canyon 5th & 6th SPARK w/ CodeJoy live interactive Robotic Haunted House event. Ss saw how robotics from BirdBrain Technologies work & their code ran the robots! Good preview of what’s next-servos & sensors here we come! Thx Infosys Foundation USA for the opportunity.

A great interactive&informative PD last night from BUILD.org & the #BUILDdesignchallenge! Shared w/Norterra Canyon & Deer Valley Unified School District friends too! Thx too for the DonorsChoose gift card=materials to make the ideate/prototype/test/pitch steps of the design thinking journey more real!

🎉🎉🎉We're celebrating and GIVEAWAY 20 of our STEAM Sample Packs for #NationalSTEMday! Follow and RT by 11/9. Tag a media specialist, instructional coach or teacher friend who you think would love to get a taster of Strawbees! #STEMeducation #giveaway #win

The sun set (beautifully we might add) on our final night of SENG Model Parent Group Norterra Canyon. Thanks to the families who came out on this cold & wet evening. Thanks Adam Laningham Bright Child AZ for facilitating our group to meet the need of DV Gifted Services families!

Yesterday Norterra Canyon honored veterans with a breakfast & assembly. ❤️ when Deer Valley Unified School District staff & students bring their own veterans to school, as I hold dear the time my dad came & my son presented him. To all who served to protect the freedoms we hold dear, thank you! 🇺🇸

What a #CSWeek for Norterra Canyon SPARK! Multithreading w Microsoft MakeCode for chibitronics clips;student-led simple circuit holiday cards & today another DonorsChoose for robotics kits fully funded thx to Infosys Foundation USA & @azedschoolsz So many 🎁 to our gifted program in 2022! ❤️

Elf games are in progress all over Norterra Canyon this morning!Thank you Principal Glitter Sparkles (aka Mrs. Milks) & our Norterra Canyon PTSA elves for bringing holiday magic to campus today!☃️🎁❄️❤️