4th Grade - My apologies for not posting yesterday. Lots of excuses come to mind, but I simply forgot. Here are the activities that occurred yesterday:
The word for the day was Magnate. Magnate means a rich, powerful, or successful business person and sounds like Magnet. The pilgrim of the day was Martha Graham. At the age of 16, Ms. Graham begged her father to take her to see Ruth St. Denis perform. Watching that performance changed Ms. Graham's life. She went on to develop her own style of ballet which communicated intense emotions. She continued dancing until she was almost 80 instructing such women as Former First Lady Betty Ford and Madonna. Mrs. Ford called her "a national treasure." The warm-up activity was a Stories with Holes problem. These students quickly solved the first mystery and were able to complete another in just a few minutes. Our affective lesson had us focusing on goal setting. Students were to set goals that were specific, had a deadline, and had an alternate route in case the steps became difficult to achieve. Our exploration lessons had us understanding that the explorations of new frontiers may impact advancements in other fields of study. Each person was given a different aspect of oceanography (people, equipment or ocean features) and were told to look for 5 different facts about that topic. The students were then to draw and label the items followed by writing a Haiku poem about the topic.
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