Monday, February 21, 2011

4th Grade - The word of the day was Despite. Despite means inspite of, notwithstanding and sounds like Write. Our pilgrim of the day was Matthew Henson. Matthew Henson set out to sea at the age of 12 to escape a difficult childhood. An explorer by the name of Robert Peary was so impressed by Mr. Henson, that he asked Mr. Henson to join his team. After three failed attempts these two men along with 4 Inuit guides reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. They were the first to do so. The warm-up activity was a Quizzles puzzle. For more puzzles like the one we did today, go to http://puzzles.com/Projects/LogicProblemsArchive.html. Our affective thinking had us focusing on the fact that successful people exhibit the trait of creativity. Students were given a variety of materials. As a team they had to make an animal and write a story about the animal. We then studied water density based on the salinity of the water as part of the SOS project.