As a part of our affective investigation to learn more about ourselves and our classmates, we spent some time this morning reflecting on our interests, influences and personality traits. We used our afternoon computer lab time to create an electronic word cloud that tells others about us. These will also be on display at our Open House this Thursday, October 6th. Although the students are anxious to share their work with you, you will have to wait until Open House. To give you an idea of what a word cloud is, and to give you some more information about me, my personal word cloud is below. I'm sure you will enjoy what your child created!
The students continued their individual work in TOPS Math problem solving and Exploratory. Ask your child about their current task and progress.
The students were also introduced to the Components of Creativity:
- Fluency
- Flexibility
- Originality
- Elaboration
Some questions have many answers: What are all of the ways you might have gotten to school today?
When I asked our students this second question, they jumped straight to creative, unusual, and original ideas. The first response to my question was, "by sky diving"- Great idea Caleb! This set the foundation for divergent thinking! Abigayle then suggested, "by zip-line!" (I am so loving this group!) A portion of the rest of their list included:
- submarine
- rocket
- skateboard
- secret passageway
- blimp
- elephant
- magic carpet
- piggy-back-ride
- mining tunnel
- zebra
I hope to see you all at our Open House this Thursday evening! Also, be sure you have gone to our Google Doc to sign up for a parent conference. If you need the link, please email me and I will resend it.
Have a wonderful week!
Brainstorming can be dangerous...Caleb's looking to buy his plane, but he's concerned that his parachute might be too bulky to walk around school with! He demonstrated how he would probably fall over and/or trip people with an open parachute trailing behind him!! :) Michelle
ReplyDeleteMichelle,
ReplyDeleteHe is naturally a very creative thinker! He had no trouble at all going for unique ideas. Really they all did. It will be fun to teach them problem solving.