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Hello there. Day one of MLK, Jr fun is done! We had a great time learning today! How many kids get to say that???? Hopefully many! We started the day off doing the two activities above. The first was a game with M&Ms. I blindfolded two students and then had them taste thee different M&Ms. They had to tell me what color they were eating. Of course all M&Ms taste the same, so it was a complete guess. The lesson was…skin color doesn't determine the inside of a person. Then we switched to eggs. I made a MLK, Jr. egg and a Ms. Erickson/class egg. We wrote down all the differences we saw on the outside: taller/shorter, rounder/skinnier, brown/white, black hair/brown hair, brown eyes/blue eyes, etc. Then, I brought kids up to the elmo and we took a look at the insides. Wow…there were no differences. They were the same. Lesson learned. :0)
MLK, Jr. was the father of Civil Rights. He promoted peaceful protesting and using love instead of fists. I asked the kids to close their eyes and go to their peaceful spot and imagine getting to live there forever. What a nice feeling. Kids then wrote Peace Poems that described those places. How they felt, what they heard, and what they saw. Final drafts were created in red pen, and then we used our hands to make a dove. A dove symbolizes peace or hope. They added an eye and a beak to bring it to life. Finally, we glued it onto our project display boards. This is the only the beginning of the fun! More to come tomorrow!
Homework tonight is a MLK, Jr. crossword puzzle. The reading should be a total review of what they learned today. Tomorrow, we will move to the topic of just vs. unjust and do a few more things with Martin. Then…onto Rosa Parks!
I will be gone on Thursday. I have another court date. I am not sure if it will go all day, so I took the entire day off. Hopefully, this will be the last one. Fingers crossed! I will be back on Friday. I am super bummed as I will miss Caden's summer birthday! I will do my best to drop in at the end of the day to have some of his delicious cookie treat! Yum!!!
In math we did some adding of fractions with unlike denominators. The hardest part to teach is that you do NOT add the denominator once you get a common one. For example, 1/4 + 1/3. You would find the common denominator by multiplying the 4 and the 3 to get 12. Then cross multiply and get new numerators of 3 and 4. So now you are adding 3/12 + 4/12. Finally, you would add the 3 and 4 to get 7, but you leave the 12 as the denominator. (So it is not 24!). I taught kids a funny little saying and they sure did love saying it. Ask them to show you this same process using this same problem. At the end they should say, "You never change your bottom!" We talked about how you can cut your hair or wear makeup to change your top, but you never do anything to change your bottom. Boy, if they only knew that was not true, or better yet, I wish I could say that we never change our bottoms. :0) I think they got it now though!!! (As far as math goes anyway!)
Remember, there is no spelling test this week. We are just doing some skills with words that we have all ready tested on in previous units.
Tuesday folders came home today. Remember, inside are those two important documents from Mr. Pertuit. Please return them tomorrow. There is also a flyer about the Reef night. If you take that sheet that night you can fill out the back and turn it in to possibly win two day passes to the Reef for another day. Sweet! I am also supposed to remind you that this is not a drop off event. Kids need to be supervised by a trusted adult that comes with them and stays with them. It is a family fun event. Thanks.
Tech Extravaganza is also in the Tuesday folder. It is this Thursday from 6-7:30. Come check out all the technology used at Arrowhead. The sessions are 15 minutes long and then you rotate to the next one. Drawings for iTunes cards will be done for those who attend. Fun, fun, fun!
There are a few more items in the folder, but they are pretty self explanatory. Please sign and return slips and folders tomorrow. Thanks so much.
Have a wonderful evening!
Ms. Erickson
