K2 STEM Launch: Kindergarten and 2nd grade students will meet for our first lab session this Friday, February 8th. We will read What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada. Afterward, we will discuss the process we will take each week asking questions, imagining results, planning, creating, and improving designs. After a guided practice/STEM warm up activity, students will be released to explore several stations of K and 2nd grade standards-based STEM challenges throughout the lab. Check back for the results of our first session!
Due to a city waterline break, students will be dismissed at 2:30 following our School of Excellence celebration. Please join us at 1:30 for the celebration!
You are invited to our School of Excellence Celebration today at 1:30! Enjoy a piece of cake with our students!!
K2 STEM: Growing Strong Students Through Collaboration
Kindergarten and 2nd grade will soon partner up for weekly STEM lab experiments. Your child will learn about the scientific process of inquiry and use it to explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in a variety of rigorous, student-centered projects! More information about our first STEM lab session will be sent home soon.
Mark your calendars for February 11th, 6PM to attend a community information meeting at Floodwood School (media center) for the upcoming Operating Referendum Special Election. Ehlers, Inc., an independent financial advisory company will be presenting. Come with your questions!!
Fostering a Love of Learning: Building Strong Kids with a Strong Home and School Relationship
Snow day #3 in the books: Kindergarten students had another phenomenal day of discovery during our third day of the deep deep freeze! Children conducted outdoor experiments with bubbles, water, eggs, and yogurt. They built space machines and took authentic problems and designed effective solutions to rescue pets from the cold. Scientists, technicians, engineers, and mathematicians... THIS is what learning looks like for our brilliant little learners! STEM Snow days Challenge in K: A BIG success!
Come join us!
Bakers, Builders, and Boiling Water Makers: Kindergarten students are working hard on their STEM challenges for snow day #2!
They are using a variety of materials and processes for building structures and improving their designs. They are also concocting delicious recipes for cinnamon and caramel rolls! Finally, they are experimenting with boiling water and the reaction that takes place when it hits the artic-like air. What will snow day #3 look like?
Due to the extreme cold, Floodwood School is cancelled for Thursday, January 31st. All evening activities are also cancelled. Stay warm!
The Home Lab in Action: A STEM Challenge Update... K students have been busy conducting their own experiments at home today. Our youngest STEM scientists are formulating hypotheses, testing ideas, evaluating results, and modifying variables to increase effectiveness of their designs. These kinder scientists are busy discovering BIG ideas, specifically tailored to individual interests and wrapped around the vehicle of play. This is learning in action!
Exciting News from the Floodwood LMC! The LMC added 51 ebooks to their collection. Students can access them online anywhere. Also, a great big thank you to volunteers and people that shopped at our book fair. We have purchased a book binding repair machine with the proceeds.
Floodwood Graduates: Please take the time to e-mail slindstrom@isd698.org or dtollefson@isd698.org about how Floodwood School helped you get where you are today. These will be included in the program for the School of Excellence celebration on Monday, February 4. Please respond ASAP. Thanks
The "Snow Days STEM Challenge" is on! Yesterday, kindergarten students created the following challenge for our two snow days: Stay warm indoors and read, write, build, and play! These activities selected exclusively by the group sharpen their skills as creative, inquisitive, engaged learners who are intrinsically motivated to work.
Evidence of students' creative projects will be uploaded to our classroom blog and photographs with descriptions are already pouring in!
One student immediately decided to construct a ramp out of a wrapping paper tube and then used a magnet structure to raise the end! What a powerful reflection of the learning taking place in our classroom and in the home each day. When students are provided opportunities to explore unique interests and questions within the context of rigorous projects, they naturally transfer this intrinsic motivation to learn beyond the classroom and in their own time.
This STEM challenge is open to anyone with an interest, question, and desire to learn. Share your pictures and ideas with us and perhaps your work will fuel our own rigorous, student-centered discoveries at school and home!
SCHOOL IS CANCELLED FOR TUESDAY (JAN 29TH) AND WEDNESDAY (JAN 30TH) DUE TO THE COLD WEATHER. STAY WARM! (Tonight's games are still on.)
The May All Sports Banquet has been rescheduled to Thursday, May 9th, 2019.
Tomorrow's (Jan 29th) Boys and Girls Basketball Games have been Cancelled!
Mat Pilates offered. Learn more about it.....
Come learn about the use of essential oils in your home. See the flyer for details!
Attention Floodwood Graduates! As part of our School of Excellence celebration on February 4, we are asking you to send us a 2-3 sentence quote about where you work (or your accomplishments) and how Floodwood School helped you get there. Please e-mail responses to slindstrom@isd698.org and dtollefson@isd698.org by January 29. Thank you in advance for taking the time to help us celebrate Floodwood’s successes. Please forward to others that may not be on social media.