The STEM lab at Fairforest Elementary has been abuzz with busy students, holiday music, and some really impressive engineering projects this week! After the fun and success of last year's Goldilocks Challenge, Mrs. Register and Mrs. Blackwelder decided that we needed an exciting project for Pajama Day once again. Just like last year, it was impossible to fit every class into the lab on a single day...so we've celebrated the whole WEEK of Pajama Day with some exciting reading and STEM challenges! Students in 4K, kindergarten, and first grade worked with LEGO Build to Express sets to represent their favorite Christmas/wintertime songs. Students worked collaboratively to select their favorite songs, analyze the lyrics, focus on a significant part of the song, and plan and build a LEGO sculpture to represent it. Our younger students had a great time, worked really hard, and created some fantastic pieces! Check them out: Children in grades 2-5 faced a very different challenge. These students worked in small groups to select a favorite song, determine the most significat part, and create an original animation to illustrate it. Student animators used Goldie Blox and the Movie Machine kits to create a zoetrope and their own unique artwork to represent their songs. We were all AMAZED at some of their final projects! Take a look at some of our engineers and artists, hard at work...and see two of the final animations below: The enthusiasm and intense focus that our young engineers and artists demonstrated this week were extremely impressive. It's amazing what our kids can accomplish when they put their minds to it. We are so proud of our Fairforest students, and we can't wait to see what they'll come up with in the new year!
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