1st and 2nd Grade - After listening to the story Stevie by John Steptoe, students were to draw a flower or flag. On the flower or flag, they were to write five qualities a friend should have. Our trip to Crystal Pond Woods had us working some more on visual thinking. Students were given a stack of cards with various shapes and were to sort them into different groups. Once the cards were sorted, the students had to name the groups.
3rd Grade - The word of the day was Chaparral. A chaparral is a thicket of shrubs and small trees. Our pilgrim of the day was Alexander Graham Bell. Mr. Bell was his father's assistant teaching deaf students until he landed a job at Sarah Fuller School. In order to help his students learn, he would make strips of drawings. While most of us know Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the telephone, he also invented the comic book. The warm up activity of the day was Plexer puzzles. These are common words or phrases put into picture form and the students have to decipher the word or phrase. Our trip to Crystal Pond Woods had us playing a visual/mathematical game called Numerical Quadrominoes. It was similar to playing scrabble, only playing with number tiles instead of letters. The students then completed their invention research from the week before and shared their discoveries with the class.
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.
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