Jen Horst, Early Intervention Teacher, and her class will be receiving a "Holiday Bonus Present" - Jen wrote the winning essay for the December drawing of the Little Genius OSMO Kit. Congratulations and thank you for all you do for your students!

With there only being 8 more days until the holiday break I wanted to share some STEM activities that you can do with materials in your classroom. If you don't have materials listed check in with Giovanna Chamberlain, Hillary Holler, or myself to see if we have them in our maker space inventory.

Hello Everyone,

The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week. The 2019 Computer Science Education Week will be December 9-15. We have some ideas for you to try out during this special week. These ideas will be shared on this Blog soon so you have time to see what can fit in your lessons that week. Please send me pictures of your students doing some lessons! I would love to see what great stuff is occurring in our IU13 classrooms. 

I am excited to announce we had FOUR winners for this month's Blog contest. Congratulations goes out to Sue Bowers, Headstart teacher at One Cumberland, Lisa Kiss, ES teacher at Fairland, and Andrea Peters, SLP therapist for all winning a Bee Bot. We had several staff members that sent in essays and we had a three way tie. Supervisors decided all three would receive a Bee Bot.

What is STEM/STEAM Day

STEM/STEAM Day falls on November 8. There’s no way around it: children are significantly better off with strong science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics skills. That’s why STEM and STEAM education programs are so important. It’s understandable that these subjects push society forward, and these programs help to find fun and engaging ways to teach them to students, which is all worth commemorating. So, on November 8, we celebrate STEM/STEAM Day!

I can not believe it is already November 4th. Our first contest give-away is approaching. We have two items to give away. I have received several essays and I am still accepting them until November 11th . Please see contest rules on the right hand side of my blog.

Welcome to fall- can't believe we are already in the middle of October. I have received some emails that my latest blog (created today) sent an email to staff that subscribe; however, the link seems to be broken! I am sorry for that and re-sending it again. Good luck!

I can't believe we are already in the middle of October. If you look over to the right under Spotlight, you will see our first instructional technology tools give-a-way contest! I have two items for staff to win this month. You can write an essay for each one, or just the one that applies to your class the best. Please view the videos on uses of these tools in your classroom! Good luck

Welcome back. I hope you had a fantastic summer vacation. Students are arriving back into our classes as I type this and I hope you are as excited as I am to start working with them. Several things occurred over the summer and I am hoping this blog post will keep you updated on these new things, as well as, throughout the school year. Please keep checking back or subscribe to this blog.