3rd Grade: Our word for today was Solicitous. Solicitous means attentive/concerned. Our "pilgrim" for today was Jim Carrey. Students learned that Jim Carrey had to drop out of high school when his father lost his job. Through hard work and determination, Jim Carrey kept journeying toward his goal of becoming a comedian. Our puzzle of the day was taken from an old National Geographic Magazine cover. It was called, "What in the World." Students were given very close up views of nine items. After listening to a clue, the students had to determine what the items were. Our affective thinking study was about courage. Each student had to give a one minute speech about something in which they were involved. Not only did the activity help develop courage in the students, they also learned about public speaking and a little bit more about their fellow students.
5th Grade: The Thursday afternoon group welcomed two new faces which meant that groups had to be rearranged to accomodate them. Our word of the day was Craven. Craven means cowardly and rhymes with Raven. The inventor of the day was Luther Burbank. Luther was a plant scientist that had over 3000 experiments going at one time. He is most known for developing the Idaho potato. In affective thinking, students thought about the term "self-discipline." This is a character word that we will definitely have to continue improving. Our "Journey" study was centered around the generalization that explorers transfer parts of their culture to other cultures. The game Mancala is an activity that came from Afica. Students spent a few minutes researching more about the game. We were also able to spend a few minutes working on our SOS project. Students chose what their responsibility would be for the duration of the project. After finding their bottle, they looked up the latitude and longitude of the bottle's location to find out what was the name of the country.
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