Happy Veterans Day!
3rd Grade - The word of the day was Tantamount. Tantamount means equivalent to, virtually the same. The pilgrim of the day was Walt Disney. Walt Disney had his early cartoons rejected by the Chicago Tribune, but he didn't give up. Walt eventually headed to Hollywood. In 1927, he created the cartoon character that ehlped him achieve his dream. The puzzle of the day was a Quotation Quizzler. You may do more puzzles like these at home by going to http://www.quotepuzzles.com. Our affective thinking lesson today centered on setting goals in the five areas we have been studying. Students looked at where they are now in each of those areas and set goals to help them reach where they want to be. In Crystal Pond Woods, we began studying Divergent Thinking. Divergent Thinking gets the students to brainstorm and branch ideas out in to many answers. This is the opposite of Convergent Thinking where students had to gather information and come up with one solution. We then revisited our potato experiment from last week. Students learned that it was not safe to drink salt water because salt water will dehydrate you.
5th Grade - The word of the day was Prevail. Prevail means to be victorious; to persuade and it sounds like Sail. The inventor of the day was Ruth Wakefield. Ruth and her husband owned the Toll House Inn of Massachutes. Ruth did all of the cooking and baking. She was well known for her chocolate cookies. One day she ran out of baking chocolate. Her friend Andrew Nestle had given her a semi-sweet candy bar. She thought if she broke it up and put it in the batter, the candy would melt and she would get her chocolate cookies. Instead she got chocolate chip cookies and we are so glad! The affective lesson had students thinking about themselves: what is important to them, what they like about their friends, etc. After a special visit from LTC Ty Bonner and the ROTC from North Edmond to help celebrate Veterans Day, students were reminded that ocean currents affect the temperatures of coastal cities. Today the focus was on Pacific Ocean currents.
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