Tinker and Techxploration Fair

The girls enjoyed the Lower School Tinker and Techxploration Fair on April 18th.  The girls had an opportunity to explore and tinker with 10 of the latest technology innovations and gadgets.

 
The Beam is an experimental telepresence robot. It lets you move around and talk to people, even when you’re not with them in person. The Beam uses WiFi, cameras and sensors to move around.

Google Cardboard is a virtual reality set of glasses. What’s virtual reality? It’s a way to experience something through our computers that doesn’t really exist.
    
You can connect the MaKey MaKey to a computer and then to just about anything.

  
Makeup Genius uses augmented reality code to put makeup on your face!

 

Robot turtles is a super fun game that will also teach you how to think like a computer scientist.
  
Drones are machines that fly themselves.
   
Alexa is an artificially intelligent bot that you can have a conversation with.

  

Leap Motion allows you to control a computer through motion rather than a keyboard or mouse, that’s called a “gestural interface.”

   
The Spirograph was created by a mathematician in the late 1800s. He used it to calculate the area of curves. But a British engineer soon realized that the Spirograph could also be used to create really pretty drawings.

Singing Into Spring

We have been very busy in the classroom after a restful and rejuvenating Spring Break! These past few weeks we have been focusing on the letter "e", the most difficult vowel sound to pronounce. We had a word-egg hunt, read about Elmer the Elephant, and learned some more word families that featured the letter "e". We also danced into and celebrated the spring, although who knows where spring has gone?!

Dancing into spring

Searching for eggs

Writing down the words we found

Even Daisy Bear got in on the action!

Graphing jelly bean colors

Enjoy a few pictures form before our break! We observed Daffodils blooming, measured them, and even dissected them.