Good afternoon,
Today Jen, Gina and I met again to work onn the STEM Lab.
Today we accomplished moving the following topics to the
STEM Computer Lab room:
Human Body
Circuits
The blue set of scales
One class set of microscopes and dry/pre-prepared slides
(no water necessary)
Prisms
We made more headway on cleaning the STEM Lab.
We will be meeting again next Tuesday, Setpember 23rd at
8:00 to continue this work. We are about ready to make a
shopping list items such as bins and supplies.
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:14:01 -0400
David Klein <
davide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Parents,
>
> Ms. Miller and I are creating a list of volunteers
> organized by specific
> tasks for the STEM initiative. The idea is to pair up
> interested volunteers
> with the teachers in charge of those tasks. Many of you
> spoke with Ms.
> Miller and Ms. Foley at Curriculum Night and/or filled
> out the Volunteer
> Sign-Up sheet then. I have listed a summary of the tasks
> below for those
> who missed it. Please let Ms. Miller or I know if you can
> help with any of
> them and we can put you in touch with the appropriate
> people. Thanks.
>
> David Klein
>
>
> *STEM Volunteer Sign-Up:*
>
> *School Painting* - STEM Lab / hallways
>
> *Business Partners* - Find partners that will be willing
> to come and work
> with students on projects 2-4 times a year.
>
> *Garden Club* - Help out or possibly run a monthly after
> school garden club.
>
> *Science Olympiad* - Coordinate the Science Olympiad team
> and practice for
> the spring competition.
>
> *EIE Kits Coordinator* - Help to order supplies and
> construct Engineering
> is Elementary kits after manuals are ordered.
>
> *Grant Writing* - Seek out and write STEM grants.
>
> *STEM Stars* - Help collect and grade monthly take-home
> sheets (similar to
> MATH Stars previously) - one grader per classroom.
>
> *Science Lab Backpacks* - Help to pick experiments,
> gather supplies, and
> make experiment backpacks for teachers to use in
> classrooms.
>