3rd Grade - The word of the day was Nefarious. Nefarious means evil, infamous. The pilgrim of the day was Steven Spielberg. As a young student, Mr. Spielberg spent most of his time daydreaming in class. Unfortunately, this did not help him get into film making school. He was able to get into college. While there, he directed a short film. Universal Studios purchased the film and hired Mr. Spielberg and as the old saying goes, "the rest is history." The warm-up activity was called 20 Questions. Students were given an unusual object. They were to ask only questions that could be answered with either a yes or no to gain clues to the item's identity. Our trip to Crystal Pond Wood had us working with Pentominoes. Students were given 12 shapes made up of 5 squares and were to arrange them so they fit into a design. We then began a study of Relationships by writing as many analogies as we could in 10 minutes.
5th Grade - These students had two words today. The first word was Wail. Wail means to cry out loudly and sounds like tail. The second word was Agility. Agility means to move quickly and easily; nimbleness of mind or body and sounds like Kill a Flea. The pilgrim of the day was Robert Fulton. As a school student, Robert Fulton was a doodler. When he grew up, he continued doodling and started building some of his ideas. One of his ideas was the Steamboat. These students quickly figured out the Mystery Object/20 questions problem. The affective lesson had students focused on controversial issues and that they need to have more than emotions to support a topic. The afternoon was spent finishing essays for the ExploraVision project. Many of them needed to take home the web page portion of the project. There just wasn't enought time today to complete everything in class. The deadline for the project is Wednesday, February 2.
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