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Session 17: Year Celebration 🎓

Overview

Grades: 3-4 | Duration: 40 minutes | Session: 17 of 17

Students celebrate their year of C-STREAM learning through reflection, sharing, and looking forward to future exploration.

Session 17: Year Celebration

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, students will:

  • Reflect on growth throughout the year

  • Present favorite projects and learnings

  • Celebrate achievements with classmates

  • Set goals for continued learning

Session 17: Year Celebration

Materials Needed

  • 📓 Engineering journals (entire year)

  • 📸 Photos from C-STREAM sessions

  • 🏆 Certificates (optional)

  • 🖼️ Display materials

  • 🎈 Celebration supplies

Catholic Integration

Saint Connection

All Our Year B Saints — St. Isidore, Blessed Carlo Acutis, St. Kateri, St. Joseph, St. Thomas Aquinas, and all who inspired us!

Scripture

"I am confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion." — Philippians 1:6

Opening Prayer

Dear God, thank you for an amazing year of discovery! Thank you for the saints who inspired us and the skills you helped us develop. Continue the good work you started in us! Amen.

Lesson Procedure

Opening Circle (6 minutes)

  1. Year in Review:
  2. "17 sessions of amazing exploration!"
  3. Show photos from throughout the year
  4. Memory Highlights:
  5. Design thinking
  6. Ozobot coding
  7. Tower building
  8. Scratch games
  9. Life cycles
  10. Makey Makey inventions
  11. Saints Journey:
  12. Review saint connections
  13. "Faith inspired our work!"

Main Activity: Exhibition & Celebration (26 minutes)

Part 1: Portfolio Review (8 minutes)

  • Look through engineering journals

  • Mark:

  • Best project
  • Biggest growth moment
  • Favorite learning

  • Most challenging success

  • Prepare to share

Part 2: Gallery & Presentations (12 minutes)

  • Set up display areas

  • Students circulate and share

  • Each person explains:

  • Favorite project
  • What they learned

  • How faith connected

  • Celebrate each presentation!

Part 3: Year Awards (4 minutes)

  • Certificates for all:
  • "Design Thinker"
  • "Code Creator"
  • "Science Explorer"
  • "Faithful Innovator"
  • "Perseverance Champion"

  • Custom recognitions

  • Each child recognized for unique strengths!

Part 4: Looking Forward (2 minutes)

  • "Next year, even more adventures!"

  • "Keep exploring and creating!"

  • Goal setting

Engineering Journal (5 minutes)

Final Entry: 1. "This year I learned..." 2. "My favorite project was..." 3. "Faith and science connect because..." 4. "Next year I want to learn..." 5. "I am an engineer who..."

Closing Circle (3 minutes)

  1. Gratitude Round — Each person shares one thanks
  2. Summer Challenge — "Keep designing, creating, and exploring!"
  3. Final Blessing:

Dear God, Thank you for this year of discovery and growth. Thank you for towers and Ozobots, circuits and code. Thank you for showing us that faith and science walk together. Bless these engineers as they continue their journey. May they always use their gifts to serve you and others. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉

Assessment

Year-End Reflection:

  • Can articulate year's growth

  • Demonstrates design thinking

  • Connects faith to STREAM

  • Shows enthusiasm for continued learning

Year B Accomplishments

This year you:

  • ✅ Mastered design thinking process

  • ✅ Programmed Ozobot robots

  • ✅ Built towers to the sky

  • ✅ Explored ecosystems

  • ✅ Created Scratch games

  • ✅ Learned about rocks and geology

  • ✅ Discovered life cycles

  • ✅ Invented with Makey Makey

  • ✅ Connected faith to every project!

Saints You Met: St. Isidore • Bl. Carlo Acutis • St. Kateri Tekakwitha • St. Paul • Fr. Lemaître • St. Joseph • St. Thomas Aquinas • Mary Magdalene

Skills You Developed: Design Thinking • Coding • Scientific Exploration • Engineering • Problem-Solving • Collaboration • Perseverance • Faith Integration

Wonder at Home 🏠

Summer C-STREAM Challenge:

  • 🔧 Keep building and inventing

  • 💻 Practice coding on Scratch

  • 🔬 Do science experiments

  • 🌿 Observe ecosystems

  • 🪨 Collect and identify rocks

  • 📚 Research scientists and inventors

  • ❤️ Use your skills to serve others

You are engineers, scientists, programmers, and children of God!

Keep creating. Keep questioning. Keep growing in faith and knowledge.

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End of Grades 3-4 Year B Bi-Weekly C-STREAM Curriculum