Our first sessions of Breakout EDU were a success! Luckily, the classes all “broke out”! Ally Chiu Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ Breakout EDU #SMILES #School6Magic

Did you know? Coding gives you super powers! Here are 10 reasons to teach coding.💡⚙🤖 #coding #STEMed #kidswhocode

What do you do with the scraps from the 3D Doodlers? Turn them into student artwork by channeling our inner Jackson Pollock! Ally Chiu Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ #3Doodlers #smiles

CAUTION! Do not cross! Our lab is divided this week into two sides! High-tech and Low-tech! Our high tech side will allow students to enjoy iPads, Cubelets, and our Touch Table. Our low-tech side will have students engaging in STEM games and activities. Pick a side!

Kinders making their own Thanksgiving Float Parade using Do Ink Animation, a green screen and about 1000 feathers & pom poms! Stay tuned for the results! #doinktweets #School6Magic Ally Chiu Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ dee martellucci

Looking to engage your students with stories they love? austinredbethechange, a #LEGOmastereducator, created a #STEM activity with #WeDo2 inspired by Frozen. Anna wants to surprise Elsa with a new, fast way to get around the snowy countryside. Help Anna build & code a snowmobile!

A huge thank you to our School PTA for their donation of these fabulous books from Usborne Books! Our Lab shelves look so inviting!! Can’t wait to share them with our students! Usborne Publishing Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ Ally Chiu

It’s “Holiday Leftovers” week in the Learning Lab as we bring back some old favorites and finish up some projects before the new year!

The mood in the learning lab is contagious! Milk and cookies for Santa? Not in this house! My 6 year old has opted to make him a Santa made from a 3-D doodler! Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ Ally Chiu

Congratulations of our Artist's of the Month!

Final day of the SMILES Walking Museum where Ss viewed past and present phones, cameras, video and music devices. They even got to share ideas for the future! Next week, deconstruction! Ss will be exploring the “insides” of those devices! Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ Ally Chiu dee martellucci

When Ss turn our deconstruction station and our cassette tapes into a game of limbo, you have to just smile and go with the flow! LIMBO!!! Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ dee martellucci Ally Chiu Beth Barbakoff #smiles #limbo

Let the games begin! Kindergarten classes split into teams and scan QR codes to listen to clues! It’s a race to the finish in the SMILES Scavenger Hunt! #SMILESscavengerhunt Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ dee martellucci Ally Chiu

This happened today...some of our Pre-K students gathered in the Learning Lab to watch the first ever all female space walk on a NASA live stream! Many of our kindergarten classes tuned in as well! History in the making! #WomenInSTEM #smiles

Presenting is tough. Presenting on ZOOM is tougher, especially for teachers who like to talk a lot! Here’s a simple way to remember to “Be Brief”: ✅Show up ✅Speak up ✅Shut up (thanks to Rich Mulholland for the tips ▶️youtu.be/9iArNac6JRU ) #remotelearning #distancelearning

Passion Project Presentations have begun! Japanese Culture with an origami lesson and Mac-N-Cheese Around the World virtual presentation! Diane Provvido Jessica Weld Keegan Michelle Mastrande Oceanside School #5

Hip Hip Hooray! Learning Lab for Pre-K! #smiles #School6

It’s 3D Doodler week in the SMILES Learning Lab! Julie McGahan✌🌏⚓ smiles