Friday, May 6, 2016

Celebrating Robots



Ruth Ayres has a link-up on weekends where people link to posts that are celebrations about their week. I love this reminder to celebrate every week.




We were celebrating robots this week. My fifth graders are involved in a project with our makerspace materials so I had the Sphero and Ozobots out for them when I realized that they would make a great addition to my kindergarten lesson.

I shared some information from a few nonfiction robot books before reading Ame Dyckman's fabulous picture book Boy + Bot, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. Then, students were able to use art supplies to create a robot they would enjoy playing with for a day. While they created, I took the ozobots around to each table to show them the sensors and let them see how they worked. I love my job. Watching their eyes light up as the little robots zoomed around was super fun. We all got to enjoy a story and learn a little bit about robots too. Our robot day was amazing.
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  1. RamonaMay 6, 2016 at 10:48 PM

    Sounds like so much fun. I'm not familiar with ozobots, but apparently your kinder are!

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  2. LoraleeMay 7, 2016 at 2:16 AM

    Such a great book! What fun your students had!

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  3. BernadetteMay 7, 2016 at 3:36 AM

    I'll bet those littles had lots of fun stories to tell at the dinner that night.

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  4. TaraMay 7, 2016 at 4:50 AM

    What fun! I can just imagine how much the kids enjoyed this.

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  5. Linda BMay 7, 2016 at 6:32 AM

    Wow, Crystal, this looks like a wonderful time with those materials.

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  6. CarolMay 7, 2016 at 9:15 AM

    Sounds like a terrific and joyful learning experience!

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  7. Jen VincentMay 8, 2016 at 4:14 PM

    So very fun! We love reading Robot Zot in our house but Boy + Bot is definitely a favorite. too. :)

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