Everyday is an adventure at Glenbrook!

Each day something new and interesting happens at Glenbrook. This week the students have been working hard on their mid year MAP testing, which can be a bit stressful and requires a bit of hard work! We want to celebrate their successes and effort.  This week we made sure that we enjoyed the week with some fun and interesting things, starting with every class participating in the "Hour of Code."  

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 45 languages. https://hourofcode.com/us

Every class spent at least one hour this week learning how to code using hourofcode.org.  Our youngest students partnered with our more experienced students to learn just the basics of computer science. Now that all students are registered, they can continue coding as often as they wish.  

Mrs. Smith, 4th grade IGNITE teacher lead the school in the efforts to start coding at Glenbrook. This has become an annual event here and the students love it.  She helped our school to become a part of the 320,931,751 students who are benefiting from the work of the Hour of Code organization.

Some of our classrooms wanted to learn more, so they began exploring other uses for coding when they read about how coding is used in robotics.  Mrs. Dauksavages class practiced Binary Coding after reading about The Evolution of Robots. 

After all of the MAP testing and coding it was time to do some other interesting things.  Mrs. Smith's class Skyped with a Mystery Classroom on Friday. When Skyping with another classroom across the United States, or even around the world, they play a sort of "20 questions."  Each classroom has the opportunity, via Skype, to ask the other classroom "yes" or "no" questions about where they are located.  Both classrooms were able to find each other on the map. This time the Mystery Skype classroom friends were from Newfolden, MN a small town of 380 people way up in the northwestern part of the state.

We also had to take time out this week to honor our very own Ms. Monica Rivera. Ms. Rivera is our school social worker. She recently received an award for her work with crisis prevention. Ms. Rivera works with students everyday who may be stressed or having trouble coping with some sort of crisis.  She is always calm and does an excellent job helping students as situations arise.  We are very proud to call Mrs. Rivera one of our very own Glenbrook Hawks!