5th Grade - Today's learning began with the vocabulary phrase Quid Pro Quo which is a Latin phrase meaning a equal exchange. Nicholas Cugnut was not so successful at developing a modern automobile. However, Gottlieg Daimler and Karl Benz in 1889, in two different places, both developed the first practical gasoline powered automobiles. Students worked together to solve the logic elimination puzzle for the warm up activity. We spent a few minutes discussing the meaning of success as our theme for this year is "Open the GATE to Success." The affective lessons this year will focus on leadership. Today, we simply discussed the students definition of a positive or negative leader. We will be focusing on Exploration as a means of success this year. Each student was given a jury summons for which we will complete a classroom simulation of a court case regarding Marco Polo.
2nd Grade - In this class, we learned that Proper means strictly decorous, genteel. The successful person was Deborah Sampson who disguised herself as a man to join the Continental Army. No one knew she was a man until she got sick and had to go to the hospital. She was given a pension of $4 a month for her service to her country. Our weekly trip to Crystal Pond Woods had students learning how to solve logic elimination puzzles. We discussed the meaning of success since our theme this year is "Open the GATE to Success." The affective lesson had students looking at the ins and outs of their abilities. The final activity was to watch a video about a book called, "Abel's Island." We will be completing several activities over the next few weeks around this book.
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