🎮 Creative Coding Week 2! Students used Makey Makeys as game controllers, learned about types of games in Google’s CS First Game Design course, and tried creating their own adventure maps in Minecraft! HCPS Innovative Learning Makey Makey Google for Education Minecraft Education

Our Creative Coders are hard at work on their final projects, but we still made the time to make some Rubik’s cube mosaics! Check out this rainbow beach sunset and the very proud creators of “all orange” 🌅🟧 Henrico County Public Schools Gifted Programs HCPS Innovative Learning Rubik's

👾 That’s a wrap on Creative Coding for this year! 🎮 ▶️ Play the games our kids made using Scratch Team here: sites.google.com/henrico.k12.va… HCPS Innovative Learning

Had an amazing time at the GenAI Expo yesterday! 🌟 Teachers who participated in our Generative AI Microcredential course this summer shared their learning and insights through creative posters and engaging presentations. HCPS Innovative Learning #EdTech #GenAI

LES is Ready to Roar for the 2024 Henrico Schools Convocation!!

So excited for the start of our first ever FLL Challenge team! Our team met the first time today and started putting together models for the robot game. Can’t wait to see how far we go this year! LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning

5th grade presented their Henrico History projects to their class (and some visitors) today! Love seeing these student presentations of learning! LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning #HenricoHistory

Lego League Challenge is in full swing! We’ve chosen our research project and are almost done with our robot game builds! LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning FIRST

How did LaburnumES students learn about Digital Citizenship? Here’s a few highlights: 🔎 4th were Digital Detectives & looked for info in social media posts 👾 3rd played a password protector digital breakout 📱 K created safe social media profiles HCPS Innovative Learning Breakout EDU

Kindergarten is practicing counting with Code and Go mice! 🐭 LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning

For #STEAMDay we revisited a challenge from last year. Students were asked to improve on and redesign their Thanksgiving table build. Last year we had 2 successful tables school-wide. Here are 3 working tables from the same class! LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning

Our second graders are celebrating #HourOfCode with a Dance Party! 🕺🪩 We love that Code.org has multiple language options so our EL students can work in their home language! LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning

Our stidents were able to read with robots during Literacy night! 📖🤖 Students read a passage and answered comprehension Qs. If they got all questions correct, Sphero Indi would follow the path! 🚙 HCPS Innovative Learning LaburnumES Sphero

A couple of hallway displays in progress! As part of our Digital Citizenship lessons this month, K and 1 have been collaborating with kindness spots and showing us how to “bee” 🐝 kind to others online! LaburnumES HCPS Innovative Learning

Computers and iPads were sent home with our lions today. Here are a couple of tips and reminders: For more details, please see the letter that went home with your student today.

aising funds to bring Sphero Indi robots to my classroom through DonorsChoose! These will help my students learn coding in a fun, hands-on way. If you can, please donate—or share this link to help spread the word! Every bit helps. donorschoose.org/project/gettin…

Students and teachers surprised our amazing associate principal, Ms. White, at First Friday today with flowers and posters for associate principal’s appreciation week! Ms. White, we love you and want to recognize you for everything you do for our school! ❤️🦁💛

Last Thursday HCPS Innovative Learning hosted the largest FIRST LEGO League Explore festival in Virginia! From 2 teams to over 30 in just 3 years - so grateful to be a part of building this program! Henrico Schools FIRST

Today we celebrated the retirement of Ms. Farrell, our wonderful Speech Language Pathologist who has served Laburnum for the past TWENTY THREE years! Ms. Farrell, we will miss the joy and love you bring into our building every day. Enjoy your retirement!

Our Kindergarteners had a blast at this year’s Force and Motion X games! What a great hands on way to engage in science!