Wednesday, November 14, 2012

2nd Grade - During our trip to Crystal Pond Woods today, students continued to develop their Divergent Thinking skills. Their goal today was to write a story using colorful descriptive words in order that the reader can "see" what the writer is thinking.

4^th Grade – Aqueduct, today’s vocabulary word, means a large pipe or conduit for carrying water from a distant location. Mary Cassatt, known as America’s Great Impressionist, was today’s explorer. They drew the Surprise in the Middle picture for their warm-up activity. The affective lesson had students considering the number of activities in which they are involved whether too many or need to change. Students were able to design the creature they want to construct and “sell” their picture to the class. One design was chosen to be the model for the final product.

4th grade students will begin building a creature from which they will develop directions to build the creature. Those directions will be sent to another Edmond school who will try to build the same creature from those directions. If you have any of the following items you could provide for the students to build with, that would be tremendously helpful:

Paper plates

cardboard tubes

Cereal boxes

Paper cups

Duct tape