Boundary Breaker: When was the last time you were an explorer? What did you discover?
Today the second graders had the place to themselves. We used our time to fill in some gaps, progress in math, and brush up on the elements of creativity.
We used the Children't Guide to Critical Thinking to explore the three types of thinkers: Naive Nancy, Selfish Sam, and Fairminded Fran. We evaluated each based on the 5 standards of thinking and used our role-model, Fran as a critical thinking exemplar!
In math, we played Some Sum where students used the randomly drawn digits 0-9 to build an addition problem with the largest answer. We also flipped the strategy to build the smallest sum. Students used their knowledge of place value and the commutative property to find all the possible winning combinations for each round.
The most fun activity of the day was creating our Nerd sculptures. Each student selected an element of creativity to demonstrate in their art.
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| The elaborate rainbow nerd. |
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| This flexible cherry nerd with a leaf umbrella. |
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