Lloyd Harbor third graders created beautiful Mola designs in art class with Ms. McLaughlin using pastels showing a variety of patterns created from line and shape. Students learned that Mola is a hand-made textile that forms part of the traditional women’s clothing and quilts of the indigenous Guna people from Panama, Central America, and Colombia, South America.

 

More Creative juices were flowing in the Creative Learning Lab with Technology teacher Margaret Diehl. The Coding challenge was to create a simple calculator that can add, subtract, multiply or divide depending upon the input from the user. Using the Hatch engineering program, students added sprites and created variables. They collected data from the user and then used operators to complete the program. It was a three-day challenge of lessons and tutorials. The Program "Hatch" uses block-based coding to help make it easy to understand the basics of computer programming, logical thinking, and basic arithmetic to help create their very own calculator with a graphic design – amazing!