Two days ago I taught my 3rd graders Tinkercad. One of them came to me the very next day begging to have something printed. It’s her teacher’s birthday. Using tech skills to make meaning moments for others. Makes my heart so happy to see them loving others! FCPS Library Program FCPS STEAM

Back to robotics for first grade. Today we are working on addition and subtraction algorithms to code robotic algorithms. Coding is everywhere! #csinfcps FCPS STEAM FCPS Library Program

4th grade has been hard at work designing new trophies for our Battle of the Books competition. They enjoyed learning how to decompose a model and work on spatial reasoning in Tinkercad FCPS STEAM FCPS Library Program

Our very own Heather Baucum (she/her/hers) 😍

1st grade kicked off their final coding unit today with way more giggles than anyone could have expected. And it was GLORIOUS! #csinfcps FCPS Library Program FCPS STEAM

Researchers hard at work designing their animal research in Canva. Eight year olds deep in the trenches of canva helping each other with design elements. It’s awesome! FCPS Library Program

Today we were so excited to celebrate our very own Charlie Kim on his second FCPS Cares employee of the month. We are so incredibly blessed to have Mr. Charlie at our school!

I gave into the data trend. 🤣. This is after day 11! Y’all. My volunteers are BUSY! FCPS Library Program

Our second graders are working on POG attributes. Today we started our work as communicators in using technology to find and share ideas. So I taught them Canva They chose to work on Canva over checkout 🤣. I can’t wait to see what they create. FCPS Library Program Jeff Lonnett

Happy Diwali to all who celebrate. #ourfcps

We finally hit 10,000! FCPS Library Program Fairfax Schools 🌟

I am sweaty and tired. But look at his face. Blessed to have my kinder IAs stay and help support. 21 kinders can now green screen in Wixie! Tech4Learning FCPS Library Program FCPS STEAM Fairfax Schools 🌟

What an exciting day here at Crossfield Elementary! Our very own superintendent Dr. Reid visited us to check out all the amazing computer science learning we’ve been doing! We even sent her off with a golden Scotty! See you again soon Dr. Reid! Fairfax Schools 🌟 fcpssupt FCPS STEAM

Finally hit over 20,000! Woot. Way to go Rockets!

We are working hard to make sure that our staff and students are represented in our library on a much larger scale for underrepresented populations in publishing.

When the prize for the Read Across America Book Puppet and Boom Trailer contest is a golden 3D printed model of your school mascot you go HARD! My email has about 30 trailers. Good luck picking A. Scott Crossfield Elementary School teachers!!!

My 2nd graders have been rocking their coding. To celebrate World Autism Acceptance Day coming up, I have an ambitious coding project for them in ScratchJr . Here's hoping that building empathy & tech skills now will inspire some to build amazing things. FCPS Library Program FCPS STEAM

Major shout out to my amazing volunteers that velcro’ed over 240 pieces to help prepare new adapted library boards for my enhance autism classrooms. So much time saved for me so I can build even more to serve our students with brand new books and activities. Thank you!!!!

The AAC building kicks off today. We talked about how coding goes beyond the silly things we can make and help to give someone else a voice. Don’t mind me over here cutting onions over my second graders ATS FCPS FCPS Library Program FCPS STEAM Fairfax Schools 🌟

To think beyond our school walls second graders went to the ocean today to learn how coding can help create new ways to clean our oceans and tried it out themselves too.