Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable time off. I didn't mention my appreciation for the gifts, cards and tubes that were sent my way before break. Your thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated! Please, forgive my tardiness.
4th Grade - The word of the day was Fleet. Fleet means a group of cars, boats, or other type of vessel and sounds like Feet. The pilgrim for today was Frederick Douglass. At the age of eight, Frederick was taught to read by his owner's wife who didn't know it was against the law to teach slaves to read. When she had to stop teaching him, he had white playmates help him learn more about reading. At the age of 20, he escaped to freedom and became an abolitionist. Our puzzle for today was a "Quizzle" or logic elimination puzzle. For more practice doing these types of puzzles, go to http://www.puzzlersparadise.com/page1042.html. The affective lesson centered around the idea that we need to find a balance between the many activities we are involved in doing. Students were given a visual of plates spinning on poles to represent the activities they are involved in and then asked how they thought they were performing in each activity. The SOS project had students completing a team test which was a review of the last several weeks of study on currents and flotsam/jetsam. Students then wrote up directions for building their creature. Those directions have been sent to the other schools involved in this project. It will be interesting to see what they robots look like when completed by the other schools.
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