Mindset Challenge

Our morning Jumpstart today focused on Greek and Latin prefixes.  Students looked a the meanings of various prefixes and used that to build words to match a definition.  They also brainstormed words they were familiar with the contained the word part.  They did a great job building their decoding skills!

For math today, we split into work stations to review and strengthen our understanding of area and perimeter.  Students used crackers to build and calculate dimensions of ice rinks, evaluated the chess board for its area and perimeter, played some online review games, and corrected any errors on their Chapter 1 check-up from last week.

Our Jacob's Ladder story this week is The Dog and his Reflection by Aesop.  They used the story to focus on sequencing, cause and effect, and consequences and implications.  This week they used Google slides to organize and present their ideas about the story.

For our Mindset Moment, students were challenged to build a copy of a paper statue only by sight.  As they worked, we recorded their self-talk and discussed as a class how they approached the difficult task and the effect that had on the outcome.

For chess today, we had a center ring model match to help us discuss movement and strategic decision making!