Stories:
We reviewed our story writing rubric today - we will use this as a tool to self assess, provide peer feedback, and will be the final teacher assessment of our completed stories. We are currently working on our plans, using a "Story Mountain" (a plan with a rising and falling action). Tomorrow morning we will meet in groups to get peer feedback on our plans so far. We will talk about how to give and receive feedback well.
Inventions:
Today, we experienced the "Ideation" phase of Design Thinking. In small groups, we silently brainstormed possible solutions to each other's problems and then even opened it up to others in the class. If you would like to throw around some ideas at home, here are Room 3's chosen problems to solve (Criteria for a good solution is: 1. It can be built using a simple machine; 2. Solves the problem; 3. I like the solution!)
Room 3 Problems:
- Kitten shirt (when a kitten snags on your shirt)
- Stirring
- Worms in strawberries
- Picking up fat cat
- Dropping drum-sticks
- Pencil shavings (so messy)
- Picking up fat cat
- Walking the dog - dog’s pulling
- Cutting vegetables and fruit
- Going up a sled hill
- Picky eating pets
- Electronic obsessions
- Cat’s shedding
- Moving snow
- Waking up
- Cooking
In our Words:
- We were working on our stories (SF)
- We wrote problems and made sticky notes around them (ZG)
- We played hangman today ("Necessity is the Mother of invention") (PS)
- Today we continued the Land of Stories (EM)
- We learned a new song in music - The Cat Came Back (MH)
Reminders:
- December 13th - Grade 4 Celebration of Learning (11am-12pm). More details to come!
- December 18th - Glenbow Museum - Volunteers needed (full day) - email with details to come
- December 19th - Choir performance
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