Monday, February 28, 2011

4th Grade - The word of the day was Conceal. Conceal means to keep from being seen; put out of sight; hidden and sounds like Con Seal. The pilgrim of the day was Milton Hershey. Mr. Hershey started out as a terrible failure in business. After failing in several major cities, Mr. Hershey returned to Lancaster, PA. A dear friend loaned him some money to start a business selling caramels from a push cart. The caramels were a success, so Mr. Hershey decided to start the Hershey milk chocolate company in a town he decided to build and the rest is history. Students then worked on Plexers/Word Winks puzzles for the warm-up activity. Plexers are common terms or phrases in picture form. Students look for visual clues from different perspectives and look for the interrelationship of the visual clues. Our affective lesson focused on the understanding that successful people demonstrate creativity. After listening to Dr. Seuss's book Hooray for Diffendoofer Day, students had to give their own ideas as to how certain classes should be taught. We reviewed the SOS project experiment from last week on density due to salinity in water. Our Exploration lesson had us focused on the understanding that what happens to one body system causes an effect on the other body systems.