1st and 2nd Grade - The word of the day was Ponderous. Ponderous means heavy and massive. The pilgrim of the day was John Quincy Adams. President John Quincy Adams enjoyed swimming. When the weather was warm, President Adams would walk to the river, take off his clothes and dive in. A reporter that had been trying unsuccessfully to get an interview with him, caught him one morning in the river. She sat on his clothes until she got her interview. Our warm-up activity was called Stories with Holes. With only 4 questions, these students determined the answer to the problem. Congratulations! In our affective lessons today, we discussed that courage is a necessary trait of successful people. Tomorrow we will draw shields of a couragous act.
5th Grade - The word of the day was Avert. Avert means to ward off; to turn away; to keep from happening and sounds like hurt. The pilgrim of the day was Ada Lovelace. Ada was the daughter of poet Lord Byron. Her mother wanted her to study math and science. While trying to invent a calculating machine with Mr. Babbage in 1843, she actually wrote the first computer program.
These students also completed the Stories with Holes problem in less than 10 questions. Way to go! Our affective lesson had us focus on one of the many "hats" we wear. Students were to focus on one of their activities, design a hat, and write on the hat character traits of that activity. For our SOS project, we completed an experiment that demonstrated warm and cold water density. We then set up a schedule/goal sheet for the Exploravision project. Unfortunately, we also learned that we are already behind schedule and will have to work extra hard over the next couple of weeks.
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