Choir Concert Animal Testing: The Horrible Truth

Quinn Duboef

Have you ever heard of Sphero? A Sphero is a small spherical robot with a clear hard plastic cover. You usually start using Sphero in 4th grade in STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and Spheros, you will learn how to control and drive them around a course, then you will start using coding blocks to make the Spheros do more advanced things. Different coding blocks give the Sphero different commands like speed, direction, color, and stop and start time. We will get to use Spheros even more in middle school with their STEM teacher, Frankie Gibson.

I interviewed her to learn more about Spheros. She told me how they work, and said “They can move in any direction but what makes them remarkable is they have these sensors so they can sense which way is up and down so they always stay upright.” Ms. Gibson also talked about how Spheros can teach you “everything from mathematical triangulation to reenacting historical events.” The fourth graders here know that because we reenacted Paul Revere’s midnight ride with Spheros!

Learning about Spheros has made me more interested in joining the LEGO League. Ms. Gibson said that “the Sphero technology is very similar to the robots that my students in LEGO League use,”.

If you are in fourth grade and you like using Spheros, next year you could try joining the LEGO league! If you are not in fourth grade, now you have something to look forward to!

All About Ashley

Anna Taber and Bentlee Smallwood

Ashley Bodkins…dog owner, reader, past teacher, enthusiastic principal, and most of all, a representation of kindness.

Ashley used to be a principal in Massachusetts at Greenlodge Elementary School. Though she loved Massachusetts, she loved Colorado even more. When she saw the opening at our school she took the chance immediately, and all of us kids enjoy her being here!

Mrs. Ashley really enjoys kids doing the announcements and would like kids to do it more frequently. This has been a chance all 4th grade classes want. She supports and loves single subjects because she likes seeing kids learning in different ways.

Her favorite play has been Choices & Voices because it includes a lot of the IB

Win Connolly for the new 3rd grade play! She has been a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher but also a reading teacher. She supports kids by making a safe place for everyone to learn. She talks about the students and what they like to do. trip has been 4th grade pioneer day. Teachers and kids dress up! We are so excited to participate in pioneer day this year. Her favorite things about the school are performances, assemblies and recess duty. Her favorite Learner you can care for others and care for the world. She thinks her dog Dune motivates kids to come to school to see his adorable face. Dune is 2 and a half for anyone that is wondering!