1st and 2nd Grade - On Wednesday, we finished our pictures about ourselves. The trip to Crystal Pond Woods was an encounter with our friend Max the Magician. Max told a story with a tangram. A tangram is a square made up of 7 shapes. The students were to put the shapes from the tangram into different animal shapes.
3rd Grade - The word of the day was Sedulous. Sedulous means industrious. The pilgrim of the day was Harrison Ford. When Harrison isn't rescuing people on the silver screen, he has his own "air force" and volunteers with the Mountain Rescuers. The trip to Crystal Pond Woods had us building "chain reaction contraptions." Sometimes it is fun to take something easy and find a more creative, elaborate way of accomplishing the same task. Students then listened to two more chapters from Abel's Island and discussed Civilized and Primitive.
4th Grade - The word of the day was Encroach. Encroach means to intrude gradually upon the rights of another; to trespass and sounds like roach.The pilgrim of the day was George Washington. After the defeat of the British during the Revolutionary War, the people wanted to make George Washington king of the United States. George Washington said they had just won a war to get out from under one king, they didn't need another. He told the people they needed a new form of government and he was elected our first president under the Constitution. The affective lesson had students focusing on past projects, what made those projects successful, and how can that success be transferred to another project. That was a great introduction to the Creature Project we will be doing with students from Angie Debo, Russell Dougherty and Sunset. Students need to bring clean recycled materials, especially cardboard tubes.
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