1snt and 2nd Grade - Several students were out today due to COGAT testing, so we didn't have a word of the day. Our pilgrim of the day was William Henry Harrison. While William Henry Harrison was governor of the Indian Territory, he tried to acquire as much land as he could from the Native Americans. Sometimes he would force the Native Americans to give up their land or he would trick them. Shawnee Chief Tecumseh became so angry at Mr. Harrison, that he placed a curse on the office of the president. He said that every president who was elected in a year ending in zero would die in office. Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1840 and died one month after taking the oath of office. The next six presidents elected in a year ending with zero also died. We then watched and listened to the book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." We then discussed what made Alexander angry and how we can deal with anger.
5th Grade - Due to the snow days of the last couple of weeks, these students are a couple of weeks ahead of the Thursday and Friday classes, so we didn't have a word of the day or a pilgrim. The warm-up activity was called, "Loosen Up." Students were to trace the web on the inside of three fingers, then draw flowers in a pretty vase, on a pretty table. Our Exploration lesson had us researching the ocean. Students looked up six facts about a particular ocean item/person. They then drew a picture of the item and wrote a Haiku poem about it. Students then became explorers in determining what happended to a man found in an iceberg in the Alps in the 1990s.
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