Women’s History Month

All grade levels are busy celebrating different achievements of Women this month.

Mrs. Richardson’s sixth grade girls did a presentation on Henrietta Lacks. Her work nicknamed “HeLa” cells, from the first two letters of her first and last names — are used to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones and viruses on the growth of cancer cells without experimenting on humans. They have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines.

Keva Blocks

The library has recently add 1,000 Keva blocks for the library and STEM classes to use to construct and complete various tasks. The STEM classes were challenged to build a tower that was taller than one of their team members and the library classes were asked to construct a rainbow that a team member could fit under.

Ozobots

Students in grades K-2 are busy learning how to make their robots “read” in the library. Ozobots are able to read colors and the students are able to code them to do simple tasks. Kindergarten students are working on coding the robot to move right or left to select the correct sound in a CVC word.

Students in grades 6-8 are learning how to code the robots with simple block coding and then completing various tasks in STEM. They are also finishing up making timelines for Black History month and having the robots complete their timelines with color coding.