Robots, Levers, and Soccer in 4th Grade!

On April 14, 2014 the 4th graders in Mr. Willard's room held the first robot soccer competition at EMES.  4th graders have been using the WeDo Lego robots to explore levers and pulleys as part of their investigation of simple machines. 

4 teams built and programmed a goal keeper and 4 teams built and programmed kicking legs.
Kickers competed against each other to determine the best kicker by distance.
The winning kicker was created and programmed by Elizabeth and Ivy with a distance of 69 CM.

Goal keepers competed against each other to determine the best keeper by blocks.
The winning keeper was created and programmed by Jacob, Jayden, and Tyler with 2 blocks and 1 score in its first round and 3 blocks in its final round.

Throughout this project students have looked at how changes in the program effect the way the lever in the robot behaves.

The final competition of kicker versus keeper went to the keeper!

EMES DCF AWARD UPDATE

EMES students in 4th through 6th grade have voted for the DCF Award for the 2013-2014 school year!

and our winner is:

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

It was a close race at EMES this year:

See You at Harry's and Dogs of Winter tied for 2nd place

The False Prince, I Funny, The One and Only Ivan, and Shadow on the Mountain tied for 3rd

Wonder and The Whole Story of Half a Girl tied for fourth place

In addition to voting, EMES students who read 5 or more books from this year's list played the great quote challenge game and had a special BLT cake to celebrate their participation in reading the DCF list.

The winners of the quote game were:

Mia, Claire, Sophia, and Averie!  Congratulations to our winners who received a book or a gift card to Bear Pond Books.

The new list is out and many of these titles are available in the library.

Click here to see the new list

- Arlyn