4th grade - The word of the day was Fertile. Fertile means able to reproduce children, seeds or fruits; highly productive. Fertile sounds like turtle. The puzzle of the day was a Quotation Quizzler. These are quotes that have been put into a puzzle similar to a crossword. For more puzzles to do at home, go to http://www.quotepuzzles.com/index.jsp. The person of the day was George Washington Carver. While many people credit George Washington Carver with the invention of peanut butter, he did develop over 300 uses for the peanut, but did not claim to have invented peanut butter. We then built a paper Cutaway Globe. This is a project from the Everyday Math series that the students use in math class. Students did more research on cities affected by ocean currents. Today they concentrated on cities near the Pacific Ocean.
5th grade - Students from Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Maxwell's classes that usually meet for Enrichment on Tuesday afternoon, met today. The word of the day was Prevail. Prevail means to be victorious; to persuade and sounds lilke sail. The inventor of the day was Ruth Wakefield. Ruth and her husband owned the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. People would stop by the Inn from miles away to try Ruth's chocolate cookies. One day, as she was mixing up a batch of her famous chocolate cookies, she noticed that she had run out of baking chocolate. A friend of hers, Andrew Nestle, had given Ruth a semi-sweet chocolate bar. Ruth thought if she broke up the candy bar and put it into the cookie dough, it would melt and she would get her chocolate cookies. Instead, the chocolate did not melt and she had invented a new cookie. The Toll House Cookies are named after the Inn and Ruth's recipe is on every bag of Nestle's chocolate chips.
The affective thinking lesson centered around how students felt about themselves/what was important to them. These students also studied Pacific Ocean cities that were affected by ocean currents.
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