Lego Visits Pelham Elementary!

Lego Education is visiting Pelham Elementary School this week to work on robotics with a group of ten fourth graders. We are excited to try their products and learn more about math and science. Mrs. Doe is on a special Lego group called the Lego Education Advisory Panel. She and 24 other teachers in the United States will be working with Lego to try new things and give advice. Mrs. Doe has started teaching us about robots and sensors this year. The second graders built alligators, lions, and birds and made them behave like real animals.
The fourth and fifth graders are just beginning to try the Lego Mindstorms kits.
This is what they look like:

The Domabot that 4th and 5th graders are building.

The Alligator in the Wedo set.

Comics and Graphic Novels

In 4th grade we are examining the genres of comic books and graphic novels. Mr. Coutu, the art teacher at the middle school, visited us to explain some art techniques to use when creating your own comics. We loved watching him draw. Mrs. Doe received a grant from U.S. Cellular to help teach us about comics. We read from The Secret Science Alliance and then created our own comics with special storyboards and markers. We will award a prize to one student from every fourth grade class and a grand prize to the best comic strip in fourth grade.