Monday, January 10, 2011

4th Grade - The word of the day was Scrutinize. Scrutinize means to look very carefully; to examine and sounds like Screw Eyes. Our pilgrim today was Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison took out 1,093 patents during his eighty-fours on this planet. It took him 8,001 attempts to find a material that could hold an electric charge in order to develop a storage battery. Edison proved that success comes to those who never quit. The puzzle of the day was a Quotation Quizzler. If you would like to practice on some more, please go to the following link: http://www.quotepuzzles.com/index.jsp. Our affective lesson had us focusing on behaviors that may turn people away from us and how we can change our behaviors. After a quick review of our SOS project, students spent the rest of the morning revising the directions to their alien. They have now been sent to the other schools. Next week we get to start building them.