March 15, Day 8
62/ S.O.L.E experiment in the computer lab. General curriculum questions.
61/ Sugata Mitra TED talk followed by S.O.L.E. in the computer lab.
61/ Sit prob
62/ Drone SOLE in the computer lab. Debrief.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
March 14, Day 7
Group 61/ N fed the birds all on his own. I didn't need to lay out the steps and I didn't need to ask him. He even retrieved and returned the feed as I would have done. This really rewards and reinforces my idea that simply introducing regular year long routines would have all sorts of benefits. The routines had to be engaging and out of the classroom type routines. We also planted seeds and placed them in the greenhouse. This also returns us to the greenhouse routine. We discussed home gardening and food costs.
Lit Circle: After I read them The Hobbit (which they mostly slept through) we got into silent individual reading. By the end of February nobody was reading. It was like a silent in class mid-day detention. They mostly ate snacks. So this week we started watching TED talks. They liked Rebecca Saxe and the Cheese sandwich pirates and they also liked the Hole in the Wall Computer. They did not like Wade Davis and dying languages. That's okay. I didn't either. Today we watched a Vimeo video of a turntable DJ mixing it up.
Group 61/ Math review of the whole year and intro to algebra. Our examples were mostly
y = 23 oranges and 45 oranges and 1 apple
y = 68 oranges + 1 apple
y = 68 o + 1a
The costs of o and a were entered for total profits. They got it.
Group 62/ Big R crisis. Worked to a resolution with S and M. Played Talisman the board game.
Group 61/ N fed the birds all on his own. I didn't need to lay out the steps and I didn't need to ask him. He even retrieved and returned the feed as I would have done. This really rewards and reinforces my idea that simply introducing regular year long routines would have all sorts of benefits. The routines had to be engaging and out of the classroom type routines. We also planted seeds and placed them in the greenhouse. This also returns us to the greenhouse routine. We discussed home gardening and food costs.
Lit Circle: After I read them The Hobbit (which they mostly slept through) we got into silent individual reading. By the end of February nobody was reading. It was like a silent in class mid-day detention. They mostly ate snacks. So this week we started watching TED talks. They liked Rebecca Saxe and the Cheese sandwich pirates and they also liked the Hole in the Wall Computer. They did not like Wade Davis and dying languages. That's okay. I didn't either. Today we watched a Vimeo video of a turntable DJ mixing it up.
Group 61/ Math review of the whole year and intro to algebra. Our examples were mostly
y = 23 oranges and 45 oranges and 1 apple
y = 68 oranges + 1 apple
y = 68 o + 1a
The costs of o and a were entered for total profits. They got it.
Group 62/ Big R crisis. Worked to a resolution with S and M. Played Talisman the board game.
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