3rd Grade - The word of the day was Opprobrious. Opprobrious means shameful, infamous. The pilgrim of the day was Clint Eastwood. Despite all the moving when he was a child and being fired from Universal studios because he couldn't act, Clint Eastwood has become a successful actor as well as director. The warm-up activity was called 20 Questions. Students were given a picture of an unusual object. They were to ask questions that could only be answered with a "yes" or "no" in order to gain clues that would help them figure out the item. Our series of affective lessons called "Take Five" ended today by having the students reflect on what they learned from these activities. Our friends from Crystal Pond Woods were drawing in the sand and then telling each other what they thought the pictures were as a way to demonstrate creativity. Students were then given the opportunity to come up with creative titles for some simple drawings. They also had an opportunity to create some simple drawings themselves and come up with a title for each one. Our Discoveries lesson had us focusing on the fact that personal discoveries may help us survive in difficult situations. Students were given some materials and told to build a boat that would float. Just like Abel in Abel's Island, they could only use the materials they were provided to learn survival. I hope to get the pictures load on the WI web page next week.
5th Grade - The word of the day was Fervor. Fervor (FUR vur) means ardor; zeal; earnestness and sounds like Fever. The inventor of the day was John Pemberton. During the age of Medicine Man Shows, John Pemberton had developed a tonic called "French Wine of Coca." It contained wine, the drug cocaine, and caffeine. When alcohol was banned in Atlanta, GA, John removed the wine from the list of ingredients and added sugar and oils from several fruits. He eventually sold the recipe and it was resold two more times. Asa Chandler was the last person to purchase the recipe. He put bubbles in the drink, removed the cocaine and named the mix Coca-Cola. The affective lesson was about things we learn as we grow and how those things affect us. We then worked on Deficient, Abundant, and Perfect numbers from the 5th grade Everyday Math curriculum. The focus for today was to get the proper factors of the numbers from 1 to 50. The Exploration lesson discussed the idea that explorations of new frontiers may impact advancements in other fields of study. We looked at the continents. Then through the use of the Scientific Method, students determined for themselves if the continents could have been one large continent. Finally, our SOS project had us following "Flotsam" and "Jetsam" through the different ocean currents. Flotsam is anything that accidentally falls off of a ship while Jetsam is anything that is thrown off a ship.
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