Sharing a GREAT day!
Dear Ones,
I'm so excited! It's wonderful when a plan comes together! I just dismissed my 5th graders and I am HIGH from our class today. Now, remember, our Topic is CONFLICT...we began with a discussion of seeing both sides of a conflict, be it familial or world wide. Another teacher came in and we asked her her opinion and she brought up a great word/concept: Misunderstanding. Wow. So we took off on that for a while. Then, when left to their Options (I've attached the list), three went to the board for the Seven Scrabble Scramble, two played "War" & the loser let everyone know he REALLY felt beaten, two continued decorating the Garden of Reading, one is creating a continuum of conflict words on Microsoft Publisher, and the boys all gravitated to the Science Center (yea, there were more than the max but who's counting). There we have a theme of Star Wars (get it?) and they were to look at technology found in the Star Wars movies and decide whether or not it was/will be feasible (speeder bikes, light sabers, droids, etc).They got interested in speeder bikes, coming up with questions on how it might work, one suggested the magnalev trains idea, etc. so we had to get out the magnets and tape string with a paper clip on it to the tables and levitate them, then tape two magnets repelling each other together, and all kinds of things. It was wonderful! Now we have an idea for an independent project to build a model of a magnetic speeder bike track (can we have racing sheets at school?), three students investigating the sides in the Israel/Lebanon conflict, a banner of degrees of conflict (in progress) words, and big 'ol vines hanging all over my reading center with book-leaves hanging from them. They even did a bang-up job of cleaning up the mess! We were late but I made them sit down so I could tell them how much I loved them!
Like I said, I love it when a plan comes together. Okay, I can die happy now. Thanks for letting me share.
posted by MacRichment @ 11:30 AM
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