This week in Quest, the Eagles were challenged to build a Just Dance robot and moving basketball game. Then program them to move, play music and keep score. We had some great discussions about technology throughout this Quest! Eagles respectfully argued how robots assist us, tasks we would prefer robots are not put in charge of, rather robots are capable of having emotions and the effect robotics is having on daily life.
Many Eagles have completed their letters to their hero and prepared them to be mailed off. On Tuesday, the Eagles met with their Community of Editors- a group of Eagles who work together to edit one another’s work based on punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and word choice. They also had the chance to meet with a Writing Buddy for one last look at how to improve their piece.
Eagles studied and practiced writing addresses. Then addressed their own envelope to place their letter in. After editing and revising, the letters were rewritten or typed to be stuffed in the envelopes and mailed off. Fingers crossed for some responses!
Last week during Town Hall, an Eagle brought up the idea of dress-up days. They all voted yes and made a plan for 3 days each month; pajama day, mix and match day, and crazy socks. Thursday was pajama day, perfect for this cold weather!
The Eagles have been loving some daily challenges (or games) given to them by the Guides. Wednesday, they were challenged to walk all the way across the church from the auditorium to the studio without a single peep! The challenge was for a fun cartoon during free time. They loved it!
This weeks Friday Celebration was based on completed work during Core Skills. The rules were; earn 1% mastery in Khan and IXL (1 standard for our Level 1 Eagles working in Dreambox). Many Eagles were highly motivated by this new challenge! We celebrated with a showing of Magic School Bus Computer Programming and hot chocolate.
*Session 4 Exhibition*
The entire Exhibition (Showcase) was ran by the Eagles! They worked together throughout the week to determine the needed jobs, build a schedule, create programs, and choose discussion questions.
The Eagles showed off what they have learned this session in Coding and Robotics by working with a buddy to build and program their own robots.
Then, shared their progress in Code.org, Khan, Dreambox, and IXL.
The Eagles finished with a technology discussion, completely led by an Eagle. They discussed rather they would prefer robots or humans driving cars and playing football. As well as if they worked with robots, would they rather build or code?
What a great way to end a fun session! Eagles will enjoy a hard-earned break and join back together February 22nd.
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