During kindergarten's weather unit, kindergarteners got to do a fun experiment with water, blue food coloring, and shaving cream to build a foundational understanding of precipitation and water droplets collecting within clouds to fall down as rain!
read moreIndi Robots with Mrs. Gauck’s Class
With the help of Stony Point VLC's area superintendent, Dr. Travis Mutscher, Herrington Elementary was able to buy a class pack of Sphero Indi Robots. These robots can be coded with color tiles or with an iPad app, making it easier for all age levels and abilities...
read moreHour of Code: Celebrated December 5-16th
The whole campus, prek through fifth grade celebrated hour of code this year in a variety of ways. Students got the opporunity to code on our robots that include Bee Bots, Code-a-pillar, Edison robots, Sphero Spark, and Ozobots. Students also coded on their chromebook...
read moreRegrouping Enrichment Group
During the secnod grade flex time, about 10 students have been working together with Mrs. Engstrom on regrouping with subtraction and addition. They were challenged with creating a set of problems that included either regrouping with addition or subtraction, solving...
read moreBook Creator: Bringing Stories to Life
Mrs. Callaway's Second Grade Class started learning about the features of Book Creator, a digital app for creating digital books. Students experimented with how to input custom or previously created videos and images, backgrounds for each page, customize text, how to...
read moreFirst Grade Holiday Elf Activity
The first grade kids got create their own digital elf while also working on their chromebook shortcut skills like copying and pasting. They also got an opportunity to practice rotating items, making items bigger and/or smaller, and the order of objects (bringing to...
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