Last Week's Blog by Pablo and Arya

Two Friday’s ago was Parent’s Day!  On Parent’s Day, the parents came to school with their kids.  Our whole class did Morning Meeting with our parents.  Parents got to experience a lot of different things that we do in school on a daily basis. 

At the end, we had an assembly.  It was very crowded.  It was really crowded!  We sang seven songs in 30 minutes.  We sang the Orchestra Song and normally only the kids have a part in it, but for the first time, the parents had a singing part.  They were the bassoons.

We are starting a design project.  To start the project, we went to Quirky and we met with an engineer at school.  Quirky is a school of invention!  They make inventions to solve problems and they make things that are easily accessible.  We learned that there are a lot of steps to building and inventing something.  We saw a “Porkfolio”.  A “Porkfolio” is a piggy bank that counts your money.  They showed us a mini version and a regular-sized version of the “Porkfolio”.  The mini version was just a prototype.  They decided to change the final “Porkfolio” from its shape when it was mini.  We also got to go on a tour of the whole company.  On the tour, we got to see a laser cutter and a few 3D printers.  At the end, both classes competed to see who could design the best drone.  Our class designed a drone with a money slot that turns into a car and has a camera.  It’s controlled by your phone.  If you are lazy it can buy you stuff from the store. 

We also started a design project.  We started by planning and thinking about what we are going to design and make.  We got partners to work with and we drew a rough sketch of what we want to make.  Everyone’s design has to stand up, fit in a bin, and it has to be stable enough not to be able to be blown over.  It also needs to have a function.  We’re excited about this project, but we’re most excited about building it!

Goodbye peeps!  See you next week!  Hope you enjoyed the blog!

Arya and Pablo