Category: Technology

September STEM News

All four 2nd Grade classrooms are participating in a STEAM challenge using the iPad’s marvelous camera and students’ artistic portrait drawing.  The final product is a bit of a surprise which will be shared on Seesaw.  Mrs. Schluckebier 3rd grade students used the iPad with iCreate to make their nameplates.  Students learned how to use […]

Principal May News

Dear Fall River Families,   There is always so much going on at the end of the school year—I don’t think it can all fit into this one small page!!!  So let me be sure to encourage you to read all of the classroom information coming home in the next few weeks to be sure […]

STEM May News

STEM at Fall RiverMay News This year has truly flown by for me at Fall River especially since I didn’t arrive untilOctober. Kindergarten, 1 st , and 2 nd grades have finished their unit of programmingBee Bots. Some classes chose to integrate their current unit with the Bee Botprogramming. Kindergarten added seeds to coding while second […]

Preschool News

It is hard to believe we are at the end of our school year already! For our last few weeks together we are working on preparing for our roles next year. For our returning preschoolers, we are talking about being good leaders next year while our students moving up to kindergarten are enjoying some visits […]

Library February News

Hello from the Learning Lab! We’ve been busy in here!  We jumped into coding before Winter break, and continued with the older grades learning BitsBox. They are really getting the hang of it!  Grades 3-5 also got an intro to the SVVSD Digital Library…super cool!   The younger grades got to learn the basics of coding, […]

Library December News

Happy Fall/Winter from the Learning Lab! We’ve been reading some great books together, while also adding some wonderful books to our library collection!  The older grades have been learning and practicing binary code, while the younger grades have been practicing alphabetical order.  We are preparing for the Hour of Code nationwide event happening in December!  […]

Library November News

Hello from the learning lab!First of all, thank you so much for all the wonderful support shown for our book fair!  We had a great turnout, and already have a big box of brand new books for our library!  We are diving into technology…researching on iPads and keyboarding activities on the computers.  We’ll be starting to […]

STEM May News

Hello Fall River Families, Students and staff continue to work on collaboration and design across many subjects.  Please read a few highlights of what our community is doing in STEM! Stop Motion Animation Mrs. Trembly’s class worked with stop-motion animation.  They used iPads and had students from the Innovation Center work with them on creating […]

Principal May News

Dear Fall River Families, There is always so much going on at the end of the school year—I don’t think it can all into this one small page!!!  So let me be sure to encourage you to read all of the classroom information coming home in the next few weeks to be sure you know […]

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