I Can Build

Art Show projects are completed and photos are in the process of being printed. Look for them on display Thursday afternoon. You can purchase a photo of your child’s project for $5. Proceeds will be used to purchase toys for Santa Cop. The students are so proud of their work and the Grapevine Police Department is equally proud of their contribution.  A recent email sent to the Grapevine Police Department by Sgt. Scott Rhodes, who originally spoke to the students about Santa Cop, included these kind words…”I would like to publicly thank and pay tribute to Michelle Hall and the students of Cannon Elementary School.  It's actions like these that make this community a great place to live and work.  Bless you Cannon students and have a very Merry Christmas!!!”  We will walk to Big Lots on Wednesday, December 18^th, purchase our toys and deliver them to the Santa Cop Store. The Grapevine Police Department will provide a police escort as we cross Highway 26 on our way to our shopping adventure.

We also created an iMovie to share our learning. Watch it below:

Homes for the Holidays

Cannon Elementary STEM scholars are putting their engineering skills to work for a good cause during the holiday season!  For our annual community service project, Cannon scholars are raising money to donate to a local chapter of the charity, Habitat for Humanity.  The project is called "Homes For the Holidays".  Scholars in each grade level are designing and creating "home-themed" ornaments to be sold at this week's Holiday Choir Concert, scheduled for Thursday, December 12th.  2nd graders have created an ornament modeled after a historic building in Downtown Grapevine. Students are currently working on an interactive map of Downtown that include pictures of several buildings.  All scholars are using the Engineering Design Process to create their ornament. Each grade level will display their ornaments on a grade level tree and ornaments will be "sold" for a suggested donation of $2.00.  All proceeds will be donated directly to Habitat for Humanity and a representative from the local office in Dallas will come to Cannon to accept the donation. 

I Can Build

We are finishing up on our food structures. Final pictures will be taken this afternoon. You can see them on display next week in the hallways at Cannon. We would love for you to own one of the photographs and help out our efforts to raise money for Santa Cop. 

Needs

We need empty toilet paper rolls and empty paper towel rolls! Please send them to school as soon as possible!

Santa Cop Project

This week we will finish our Art Show project that will raise money for Santa Cop. Students have designed their structures and we will begin building this week. We need cans of green beans, corn, black beans, ranch beans, tomatoes and coffee to use in our building. I will take pictures of their structures and the photos will be for sale next week. You will want to own one of these pictures – they will make great Christmas gifts for grandparents!  All of the money raised by the sale of these photos will be used to buy toys for Santa Cop.