1st and 2nd Grade - Students worked to finish their "Acts of Kindness" posters. Next week, I will put them on display in the classroom. Our trip to Crystal Pond Woods had us working on Visual Thinking with Max the Magician. As a reminder of their younger days, students listened to The Moveable Mother Goose book by Robert Sabuda. Max, with the help of Yolanda, took familiar nursery rhymes and put them into symbol form. Students had to look at the symbols and try to determine what nursery rhyme was drawn. Next week, students will try to draw their own and have their classmates figure out the nursery rhyme.
3rd Grade - The word of the day was Soporific. Soporific means sleep inducing. The pilgrim of the day was James Earl Jones. As a child, Mr. Jones had a stuttering problem that caused him to become mute. In high school, he started writing poetry and discovered he could read the poems without stuttering. He began speech lessons to help rid himself of the stuttering. After a time in the military, friends encouraged him to try acting and the rest is history. Our puzzle for today was a "Quizzle" or logic elimination puzzle. For more practice doing these types of puzzles go to http://puzzles.com/. The trip to Crystal Pond Woods had students creating word webs. Webbing is another way of brainstorming and is great for visual learners who need to see what they are doing. We then discussed the final chapters of Abel's Island.
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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