We learned how to draw people, especially faces to help with Sketchnoting our ideas and learning. The kids giggled a lot when drawing the different faces. Here's the video, "Drawing Peeps", for those who weren't with us today. Give it a try! Lots of fun!
Divergent Thinking:
We learned two more words from Weighty Word, Bifurcate and Coruscate. The kids did a great job creating visual images of the words!
Later, we worked on all four aspects of creativity with the August F2OE. That includes: Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration. The kids got their ideas flowing and did an especially good job on the Fluency! So many excellent ideas!
Unit Study:
We watched another video about Harris Burdick. The kids each chose an illustration from the book as the basis for their own mystery story. We'll be writing these stories for the next few weeks, then we'll record videos of the kids reading their stories. Stay tuned for more news about our "Mystery Story Theater"! We also learned about the parts of a mystery story: an unknown (crime, something or someone missing, etc), a detective, clues, suspect(s), and a solution.
Novel Study:
We read another chapter of our book. The Big Bad Wolf met another little pig who offered to help him solve the case. Their first suspects are Hansel and Gretel.
Affective Skills:
We continued our Mindfulness Practice with "4-7-8 Breathing". The kids liked this one. We'll practice this again next time.
Until next time,
Dr. Kraeger