In LMC lessons this week, first graders have listened to stories and watched videos about unusual animal partnerships. They compared these stories to the one In The Nest For Celeste, when Celeste the mouse formed friendships with Cornelius and Lafayette, two birds. The students used an iPad app, YakIt Kids, to make the animals “talk” by recording their own voices over a photo of the unusual animal pairs. Second graders pretended to be mouse-sized visitors to the LMC. They wrote about what they’d see and feel through the perspective of a tiny visitor. Using PicKids, they created posters of themselves as tiny people and described the scenes using the scripts they wrote.
To connect with The Nest For Celeste book, Mrs. Seisser, the Technology Facilitator, showed students how to practice their coding skills using the programmable Beebots. Students had to code the bee to move around on the board completing challenges related to the book. They had to make sure to avoid dangers like the cat and had to move Celeste to different parts of the house and grounds. Here, the students in Ms. Brown’s third grade class took turns coding the bee.
