"What is Lioncrafting?" you ask...

If you have school aged children and are not living under a rock, then you have heard of Minecraft. Minecraft is a very popular game nowadays with people of all ages, but it seems to really have caught hold with many of the kids here at Laurel Mountain. We used that excitement and incorporated it into one of our 2nd and 3rd grade enrichment clusters. LME students are excited to be part of a RoundRock ISD's pilot of MinecraftEdu, which is a version of Minecraft for use in schools!

Our amazing Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS), Sara Richards, and one of our fabulous talented and gifted teachers (TAG), Marci Shrull, are facilitating this enrichment cluster titled "The Great Minecraft Experiment". Here was the description of the cluster for the 2nd and 3rd graders:

The Great Minecraft Experiment: Are you a fan of Minecraft? Do you love creating awesome structures, mining for diamonds, or defeating creepers? Minecraft can be used in lots of different ways! In the Minecraft cluster, we will work together to plan, design and build some amazing things. Grab your diamond pickax and join us!

The 15 students in the cluster are SO excited and having SO much fun learning. When you walk in the room, like with all of our enrichment clusters, you can see, feel and hear the excitement. 

Mrs. Richards has created a blog about the Minecraft adventures. Please check it out! http://lioncrafting.blogspot.com/

And I just found out that Mrs. Richards' blog is FAMOUS! Joel Levin, the creator of MinecraftEdu, started tweeting about "Lioncrafting". The blog had ten views yesterday. So far today it has had over 120! Here's his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/MinecraftTeachr  There are three tweets about LME!

Very cool Lioncrafters! Another thing that sets LME apart.