Monday, October 27, 2014

4th Grade - Changes to our regular schedule changed the Enrichment schedule for this week. Lessons started by learning that Excessive means something that goes beyond the usual limit. George Washington Carver, who found over 300 uses for the peanut, was today's explorer. Students completed a quotation Quizzler Puzzle for the warm up activity. Personal security systems such as personal space boundaries were the focus of today's affective lesson. For the Mystery Disease lesson, students had to write a letter to the editor explaining what we know so far about E.coli and who is responsible for the disease. Our final activity was to begin a series of lessons in space exploration.

Part of the space exploration lessons will be to have the students build a "robot" from recycled materials. Here are some more details:

Beginning October 27, the 4^th grade Enrichment students from Angie Debo and Washington Irving will be working together to build an alien. Each class will build a creature, write a description of what they have made, and then send the description to the other school. The other school will build the creature based on the directions given to them. By the end of January, the students will have completed the aliens and will share the pictures with the other classes. The goal is to have all of the aliens looking similar. We will be in need of a few materials. Please do not feel the need to go out and purchase any of these items just send what you have available.

Items needed:

3 oz paper cups

Cardboard tubes

Cereal boxes

Duct tape

Masking tape

Paper plates

Shoe boxes

If you could help us in any way, we would greatly appreciate it.

2nd Grade - These students learned that Civilized means marked by well-organized laws and rules about how people behave with each other. Sylvia Earle, an under water explorer, was today's explorer. Students completed a Quotation Quizzler puzzle for the warm up activity. The affective lesson focused on goal setting. In Crystal Pond Woods, students played a card game that helped them develop their observation skills as they looked at attributes. We were able to finish watching the video Abel's Island and discuss a little bit about the story.