I want to thank all of the children that gave their lunches and free blocks to help get the costumes and props done for Ms. Swanson's 2nd grade Music classes' Polar Animal Production on Monday, February 1st at Steward School.  It was definitely a team effort cutting and piecing the many felt pieces that go into the masks.
 
The crazy thing is we have a total of 8 productions this year between Steward and Proctor School.  We will be back at creating for the next show on Monday! Please consider donating to CLIC to keep theatrical performances going strong.  These shows drain the CLIC budget but it is completely worth it seeing the children so excited to perform.  When Ms. Swanson and I rolled the yellow submarine onto the cafeteria stage yesterday the 2nd graders started singing the Yellow submarine song while they were eating.  It was so fun! Kids just love to sing and perform so I am happy to see our schools becoming known for our awesome performances.   

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For three days last week, 6th grade science classes came to CLIC to put their physics and engineering knowledge to use engineering and building catapults and then trebuchets.  Building the trebuchets proved to be extremely challenging since there are many factors that go into making the ball catapult forward.  We learned about how trebuchets are first class levers and the fulcrum and exchange of energy and weight is critical in getting the ball to launch forward. The pouch that holds the ball and the angle of of the pin that the sling sits on also became a major challenge.  It is amazing that the children managed to get most of the trebuchets to work since this is really a college project.  The children loved storming the castle in the hall hurling marshmallows, licorice, gumballs over the cardboard castle.  Ms. Strobl and I loved it as much as the children since it was really super challenging but the kids gave it their all! 

Thank you TESPTO for funding this project through the recent THINK BIG! Grant for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning in CLIC.

In STEAM Club last week we began a unit on different types of motors. We built awesomely crazy acting vibrating robots from toothbrushes and eccentric motors.  This is a great lesson to teach about how you can make an ordinary motor eccentric so that it vibrates.  These motors can be found in phones, Fit bits, pagers, electric toothbrushes for example.  They turn the toothbrush heads into robots that twirl and and fly across surfaces in a pogo stick fashion. The children were delighted with their brush bots!