Monday, December 13, 2010

4th Grade - The word of the day was Allude. Allude means to refer to casually or indirectly and sounds like Rude. The pilgrim of the day was Walt Disney. When everyone around him was saying it wouldn't work, Walt Disney said, "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." The masterpiece he was working on was called Snow White. It won an Academy Award. Our affective lesson focused on eight traits of people (procrastination, perfectionism, isolation, risk-taking, motivation, potential, leadership and stress. Today, students were to define those terms by developing a saying for each person that would act out those traits. Students then spent 30 minutes building their creature. They are very good. When we get back from Winter Break, students will write up the directions on how to build it and send it to another school. We then reviewed the water density experiment we tried to do last week.