1st and 2nd grade - Our trip to Crystal Pond Woods today had us visiting with Isabel the Inventor. Isabel was excited about the yard sale her friends were having to get rid of excess paraphernalia. She found an old kite that she "SCAMPERed." The students were given an opportunity to "SCAMPER" either an umbrella, shoe or fishing pole. They were to take these common items and turn them into a new invention and then write about them. Our affective lesson centered on the idea that successful people exhibit the traits of creativity, goal setting, intelligence, courage, and kindness. The focus today was Responsibility and Respect. Students drew cartoons and wrote captions for those drawings. The cartoons were to tell about the choices they could make when they were bored. You can view both projects during parent/teacher conferences either Thursday or Monday evening.
4th grade - Due to no classes on Friday, the Friday morning group joined us today. The word of the day was Goad. Goad means anything that pricks, prods, or urges. It sounds like toad. The pilgrim of the day was Jimmy Carter. President Carter was instrumental in getting President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, to sign a peace agreement in 1978. Students then completed Plexer puzzles. Plexers are logic elimination grid puzzles that teach students to analyze the clues and use deductive reasoning to solve problems. For more similar puzzles to work on at home, go to http://www.puzzles.com/.
The Exploration lesson centered on the generalization that new frontiers may impact advancements in other fields of study. After discussing a few of the items we use every day that were developed for the space program, students built "space stations." These will be on display during Parent/Teacher conferences. Our SOS project again focused on ocean currents. Students were given some cities in either Europe or North America and had to find the average warm temperature, average cold temperature and the overall average temperature. Once they found those temperatures, they had to decide why the cities were cooler or warmer than they would be if they were further inland.
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