Boundary Breaker: Pretend you are an archaeologist and you come across this artifact. How do you explain what you see?
To finish off our Maneki Neko Bank lesson, students found patterns in place value by creating organized charts. Using their newly discovered rule, they determined how many different combinations of dimes and pennies could be made for any given amount of change.
We did a bit of note taking practice as we looked more at the qualities of critical thinkers. Today we used the Children's Guide to Critical Thinking video focusing on the five standards of thinking: Be clear, Be accurate, Be relevant, Be logical, and Be Fair.
Part of our class spent time being introduced to the Habits of Mind and playing Bingo to become more familiar with these traits for success. They also used the squiggle activity to understand the four components of creativity with our Nerds mascots. They used fluency to brainstorm ideas, flexibility to consider the shape from different angles, originality to choose the most unique idea from their list, and elaboration to fill in with colorful details.
My project crew was hard at work writing and editing their paragraphs. We even have our first artifact to display!
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