Students in Heather Carter and Faith Manundo’s second-grade classes at Cherry Chase Elementary are expanding their idea of literacy to include computer programming and stop motion. With the help of Anu Agarwal, a parent volunteer, the class created projects using…
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Second and third-grade Bishop Bobcats got an all-day Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival in January. The nonprofit’s mission is to inspire joy with math. Students were able to explore five play-based math activities during the festival: Apple Picking – https://jrmf.org/puzzle/apple-picking/ Domino Dissection…
As the culmination of our Motion & Forces Unit, 8th Grade Science classes participated in a Stomp Rocket Launch on November 9th & 10th! First, students built their rockets in class out of paper and tape. Then they launched the…
This year, our second grade conducted multiple classroom transformations for students to apply what they learned in a given math unit. The transformations targeted grade-level standards, academics, and social-emotional learning. Teachers reported the following impacts on social-emotional and academic learning: Promotes…
A team of Cumberland Elementary 5th graders made it to the 2022 VEX Robotics World Championships this Spring and walked away with the Create Award! The VEX Robotics competition is put on by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, which…
On February 7 and 9, Bishop students were able to participate in a STEAM Museum where they explored 3-D printing, circuitry, music making, and many more concepts. A HUGE shout out to the Sunnyvale Education Foundation for providing the funding…
In January, 7th graders planted beans for our Bean Plant Inquiry Lab, in which they designed their own lab to see what variables affect plant growth! Groups tested different variables, such as water source (filtered, tap, bottled), type of light…
These are the finished products from Gretchen Gabriel’s fifth-grade class’s FAME presentation on Feb. 10 featuring the art of Georgia O’Keeffe. The students used watercolors, tissue paper, construction paper, and oil pastels modeled after the famous red poppies of O’Keeffe….
Everything was awesome for a brother/sister duo who got to spend the summer as Lego Ambassadors for the new Legoland Discovery Place in Milpitas. Lakewood’s Mikayla Wong and Columbia’s Earnie Wong, are also a part of the inaugural Creative Crew for…
Article written by Sunnyvale Middle School teacher, Dewey Huang. A group of volunteer students called the Public Health Enhancement Project (PHEP), banded together to create an educational video series composed of six videos that cover concepts from how a virus…
Despite being remote, Bishop Bobcats were still able to work for 10 weeks during asynchronous school work time to complete their prototypes for a virtual Invention Convention. A total of 30 students participated in the weekly virtually invention convention sessions….
Can you build a hand? Cumberland 4th graders wondered that exact question after reading a Scholastic News article about Jordan Reeves, a girl born with limb differences who designed her own 3D printed prosthetic that shoots glitter. Afterward, their collective…
On April 12, 2019, Columbia Middle School students were invited to LinkedIn in Sunnyvale for a Coding Dojo session where they got to design their own website and game and have lunch on campus. The opportunity was through a partnership…
Over $300,000 in grant funding from the State Public Utilities Commission’s will advance a joint venture with the City of Sunnyvale. The funding will provide 650 families with digital literacy training, access to Internet-ready devices and low-cost broadband internet services….
On Saturday, April 7th, after running the fourth and fifth grade Math Olympics after school club for the last few months, fifth grade teachers Brittany Jansen and Jackie Cerna held their annual Math Olympics competition. Ellis staff members and their…