3rd Grade - The word of the day was Inception. Inception means the start or beginning. Our pilgrim of the day was Oprah Winfrey. Ms. Winfrey wowed a lot of people as she was growing up, but not her bosses at the station where she was a TV news anchor. She cared too much. They gave her a job as a morning talk show host and as they say, "the rest is history." The warm up activity was a Quizzle puzzle. For more puzzles to do at home, go to http://www.puzzles.com/Projects/LogicProblems.html. Our trip to Crystal Pond Woods had us focused on Visual Thinking. Max the Magician had students working on Fanciful Phrases or as we like to call them Plexers. Students are given a common phrase in picture form and have to determine what the picture says. Our discovery lesson was a continuation of the Gold Rush lesson of last week. As our nation started growing due to people rushing west, new products and inventions were being developed. Some of these items were discovered by accident (like the gold had been discovered while building a sawmill). Something that is discovered by accident is called Serendipity. Students spent time today researching various inventions.
5th Grade - The word of the day was Catamaran. Catamaran means a boat with two parallel hulls; a raft of logs tied together. We had two pilgrims today: Richard Knerr and Arthur Melvin. These men were making sling shots from their garage, but weren't making much money. Someone told them about the bamboo hoops that Australian children played with. At the same time Phillips Petroleum was trying to develop a new plastic, but no one wanted it. Mr. Knerr and Mr. Melvin asked if the plastics plant wanted to make the hoops for them. In the next seven years Richard and Melvin sold over a million hula hoops. The warm-up activity of the day was a Quizzles puzzle. For more puzzles like the one we did today in class, go to http://puzzles.com/Projects/LogicProblemsArchive.html. Our affective lesson had us focusing on codes of behavior whether written or implied. We shared facts about the ocean project we completed last week. We then experimented with density and salinity of water.
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