I was super excited to have the opportunity to work with AVID and Amazon Future Engineers that last two days to work on piloting a new computer course. There were a lot of interesting activities and people involved. I was lucky enough that in my position this year as a virtual teacher that I was able to attend these days. The course is supposed to be available to the public this summer.
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The kits from my grant are being put together. I know I'm a bit of a nerd but it's exciting to find all of the items and organize them into these tubs. As you can see from the pictures, we were able to fit a lot of things into the plastic shoe boxes. Everything in them is being used as we study waves but have been put together to be able to go home to my virtual students.
Every year our small town has a festival like many city/ villages in Michigan to celebrate a specific fruit or vegetable. For us it's the fall pumpkin festival. Part of the festivities is that all of our elementary students decorate a pumpkin in one of 4 categories. While all the pumpkins get displayed on the courthouse lawn, the K-2 submissions aren't judged like the rest in a contest. This year due to Covid, the festival had to be canceled but we didn't want the kids to miss out on the tradition. One of the teacher's in our building has a farm that includes pumpkin fields so they donated hundreds so that the kids could still decorate them, they just had to be harvested. So a team of staff and their children, went out to the farm and collected the pumpkins to be delivered. It started out rainy but was an amazing day of fun together when gatherings were in short supply.
This was a year like no other in so many ways, not the least of which was how we ended the year. Students left the physical building in March and while we had them take what was in their lockers home at the time in case they needed something, we still had to go through desks and get them back to our kids. To safely do this, we set up a drive by-pick up day. Lucky for me, one of my co-workers brought a tent since it was a very hot day. I also put together a small end of the year bundle and made some large letter signs to post in the windows. Welcome summer and we will see what fall brings.
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