3rd Grade - Primitive was the vocabulary word for this week and it means of, belonging to, or seeming to come from an early time in the very ancient past. Jim Carrey was the explorer. Mr. Carrey was an "A" student until his father lost his job and Jim had to go to work. The affective lesson focused on courage. Students were to give a one minute speech on a random topic. Having each student give a speech and celebrate each success took quite a bit of time this morning. The remaining time was spent working on logic elimination puzzles.
5th Grade - This week's word was Solicitous which means attentive, concerned. The explorer was Luther Burbank who had more than 3,000 experiments going at the same time. One of his experiments was to develop a potato that could withstand blight which led to the development of the Idaho potato. Students solved Plexer puzzles for the warm up activity. Plexers are common words or phrases put into picture form that the students have to solve. Self discipline was the focus of the affective lesson. They had an opportunity to demonstrate self-discipline while Dr. Rains took care of a quick errand. The final activity for the Marco Polo study was to create a newspaper headline. Students then researched more about insulation and developed a plan for their problem which we will build next week.
Special activities kept the second graders busy at the end of the day.
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