Sunday, March 27, 2022

Welcome to Our Classroom and Our Renaissance Museum, Families!

 After almost two years with not having our families come into our classroom, we were FINALLY able to have them come see us.


The Navigators did a wonderful job introducing their parents and showing them around our museum, our classroom, and our school. 

We showed them our "Invention Convention Exhibits"

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A Princess

A girl

An ant

A cute cartoon watermelon

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Our art museum exhibit:
"Drawings of the Groundhog"

Our letter from Leppy the Leprechaun

Our interesting books 

Our Google slideshows of our inventors

The slideshow of Joe Markham, 
the inventor of the Kong indestructible dog toy

Pi written on pages and pages of his journal

Watching a pi video of our Seabury School students and staff made by our second grade teacher, Ms. Feehan.

Click here to see the amazing video.  

Thank you so much for coming! Come again!!



Friday, March 18, 2022

Seabury Inventors: the Innovators and Marketers of the Future!

Ms. Wollum, our head of school, came in and inspired us through her lesson on being an inventor. We then did the following steps and now have an amazing Invention Convention in our classroom!

  • Identifying Coming up with several problems and choosing one to take through the invention process.
  • Understanding Thinking of a unique solution.
  • Ideating Developing a project plan for the invention.
  • Designing Drawing a "blue print" of the invention.
  • Building Constructing a prototype in the MakerSpace.
  • Testing Seeing how the invention works and revising the design as needed.
  • Communicating Coming up with a name, making an advertisement poster, presenting it to others, and making a sign for our Invention Convention exhibit in our classroom.


Thank you, Ms. Wollum, for teaching us!

We each choose a problem 
and come up with a unique solution 

Problem: You can't get your ring off. 
"Buy at Seabury 1st Grade"

Solution: The Adjustable Ring!

Problem: Your bunny makes messes in the house.

Solution: A Bunny Poop Scooper

Problem: Boredom
"$6.99 even on holidays!"

Solution: The MARBLE-O-NATOR

Problem: Not enough room for two pets

Solution: The Double Pet Aquarium!
"It holds two pets at once."

Problem: Markers lose their caps and dry out
"Everyone will love the Markercap Button!"

Solution: The Marker Cap Button!!!

 
Problem: Toys have jagged edges and are not safe
"Do you need a safe toy?"

Solution: The Plushy Toy

Problem: You want to take your toys with you into a store but the workers at the store might think you took the toys without paying.

Solution: The Princess Collection, your own design of toys

The Complete Collection

Problem: Your batteries die 
"$99.99 Limited Edition"
"Half Price on Fridays"
$25 Days Left"


Solution: The Solar-Powered Toy Plane!

Problem: Being bored
"On Black Friday it is one cent"

Solution: The Shakey Table with interchangeable parts

Problem: Your cat needs a sturdy, playful, scratch tower.
"20% off Every Friday"

Solution: The Ultimate O o omega Cat Scratcher!

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Here are some more pictures of our invention process:

Making "blue prints" of ideas

Taking our "blue print" and making the prototype

Finding the correct supplies in our MakerSpace

Construction

Learning new skills like SEWING

Gathering around and sharing ideas

So excited to show Ms. Wollum

Showing our families during our Seabury Open House!

Her brother took his invention to 
the official convention a few years ago.
We look forward to being able to do that again someday! 

Go Seabury Inventors!

You are going to change the world!!




First Grade-isms

A first grader recites 200+ digits of pi!