1st and 2nd Grade - The word of the day was Gloat. People who gloat are happy about other people's failure. The pilgrim of the day was Sacagawea. Sacagawea was an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Although she didn't speak English, she could speak with the Native American tribes and tell her husband what they said in French. Her french husband would then translate to Lewis and Clark in English. The puzzle of the day was a Quotation Quizzler. Students can practice more puzzles at home by going to http://www.quotepuzzles.com/index.jsp.
Our affective lessons are still centered around the characteristics of successful people. Today the focus was on courage and speaking properly with adults otherwise known as "putting your best foot forward."
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 tried to sell his cartoons to a newspaper, but they rejected him. In 1927, while living in California, Walt Disney developed the mouse that became Mickey Mouse. Where would we be if Walt's cartoons had been accepted by the Chicago Tribune? We also did Quotation Quizzlers as our daily puzzle. Our affective lesson focused on setting goals for each area that we have discussed this year. Students looked at where they are in those five areas and where they want to be. Today, our trip to Crystal Pond Woods centered around Divergent Thinking. While Convergent Thinking brought ideas together for one answer, Divergent branches into lots of ideas. At the end of the class period, we revisited our potato/water experiment from last week. We discussed the difference in the two different potatoes.
4th Grade - Our word of the day was Fertile. Fertile means able to reproduce children, seeds, or fruits; highly productive. The pilgrim of the day was George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver does not claim to have invented peanut butter as many people think, but he did invent over 300 uses for the peanut. Our puzzle of the day was the Quotation Quizzler like the other two grade levels. We built a "cutaway globe" which is a project from the Every Day Math curriculum that the regular classes are using. Students then looked for North American cities along the west coast and matched them with an eastern Asian city on the same latitude as the North American city. We were researching how the ocean currents affect the city climates.
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