3rd Grade - The third graders learned that a Millennium is a period of 1,000 years. Their explorer, Bill Gates, was a college dropout, but he created Microsoft. Each student participated in the drawing of a house of another student for the Loosen Up warm up activity. The affective study had students focused on their valued gifts as we listened to The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Students continued to practice the creative problem-solving process in Crystal Pond Woods.
5th Grade - This group learned two vocabulary words today: Sojourn which means a short stay, brief residence; and Spurious which means false, counterfeit. The "Real McCoy" was invented by today's explorer, Elijah McCoy. Mr. McCoy was an African-American who could only find work on the railroad. He invented the "Real McCoy" so machines wouldn't have to stop to be oiled. This group also completed the drawings of a house for each other in the Loosen up warm up activity. The focus of today's affective lesson was ethics and character and helping students prepare for the future. The afternoon had students learning and building radio telescopes and towers. The final activity was to find the location of a bottle that had "washed up on shore" as we began our ocean study simulation.
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