Working collaboratively: building circuits

Time to experiment & create

Thanks to The Doris Ackerman Team for the donation of multiple copies of Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. We've had small groups of 6th graders enjoying the novel.

STEAM Master classes first week: Fidget Factory (making/creating own fidgets)

Fidget Factory at Work - Check out the concentration & focus!

Oh, you know who you are...Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Thanks to Junior Achievement career speaker, Shelby Miller, from Kirkwood's Pharmacy Technician program. Learned a lot about the world of pharmacy!

Power of people from our pasts - dry erase tables came in handy for lesson in working together to come up with possible interview subjects for our Story Corps interviews!

Just in case you could use a little extra today...

Infinity Fidget Cube made from dice - fun in the Fidget Factory during STEAM Master class.

Thanks to JA Career speaker and Iowa state legislator, Ashley Hinson, for coming to speak with us today. Learned a lot about how a bill becomes a law!

Partners working on analyzing poem " Set the Garden on Fire" (power of community gardens) - using table texting (written "conversation" done in text boxes back and forth).

Great day for baseball - 6th grade @ CR Kernels game!

So proud of 6th gr. McK Bears helping lil cubs @ Bever Park today - patient, gentle, and such good teachers...

6th gr McK Bears - awesome time @ Bever Park. Thanks to everyone who made our day so special!

So this guy loves his raspberries:) Today I brought him canes so he can plant his own raspberry bush. A few tears - the raspberry bushes were first my dad's & then ours and have lived in Chicago, NE CR, and will now be in Wellington Hts. My dad would have loved this...

Celebrating Mrs. Swanson as she gets ready to retire. She will be missed.

Hey, Bears! Keep reading...here are a few books Mrs. Reynolds has been enjoying!

Fun morning dropping off Harbor Me (Jacqueline Woodson) to some incoming 7th gr Bears. McK joins Project LIT Community book club movement this year & we're excited to share some great reads! Keep reading & sharing books, Bears! Thnx Amy Gardner & @MsKatMCK for coming this am!

Summer fun and it's free!