Rebecca Fischer

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

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!

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_Innovates hosted the largest @firstlegoleague Explore festival in Virginia! From 2 teams to over 30 in just 3 years - so grateful to be a part of building this program! @HenricoSchools @FIRSTweets

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…

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.

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_Innovates

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_Innovates @LaburnumES @Sphero

Our second graders are celebrating #HourOfCode with a Dance Party! 🕺🪩 We love that @codeorg has multiple language options so our EL students can work in their home language! @LaburnumES @HCPS_Innovates

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_Innovates

Kindergarten is practicing counting with Code and Go mice! 🐭 @LaburnumES @HCPS_Innovates

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_Innovates @breakoutEDU

Lego League Challenge is in full swing! We’ve chosen our research project and are almost done with our robot game builds! @LaburnumES @HCPS_Innovates @FIRSTweets

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

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_Innovates

LES is Ready to Roar for the 2024 @HenricoSchools Convocation!!

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_Innovates #EdTech #GenAI

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

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” 🌅🟧 @ConleeJenna @HCPS_Innovates @Rubiks_Official

🎮 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_Innovates @makeymakey @GoogleForEdu @PlayCraftLearn