Library STEM Lesson: Samurai Santa
Have you read the book
Samurai Santa by Rubin Pingk?
This might be the cutest, most fun, Christmas book EVER!
Friday we celebrated National Ninja Day by reading this clever book. Incorporating STEAM or STEM into our library has been a goal of mine this year and this wonderful read aloud offered the perfect opportunity to reach this goal.
Third grade is studying procedural text at the moment, so we used this as the TEKS to focus on, but encompassed so much more than just how to write procedural text.
As you may well know, we do not see too much snow in Texas, so in preparing for an EPIC snowball fight, we must first make snow. Students measured and mixed to create fake snow. We used three table spoons of corn starch and three heaping and growing table spoons of foam shaving cream. They mixed the ingredients together to create "snow". We then fashioned this creation into snowballs. Following this experiment we went into the computer lab and blogged about
"How to Make Snow".
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