As a part of our affective investigation to learn more about ourselves and our classmates, we spent some time this morning reflecting on our interests, influences and personality traits. We used our classroom computers to create an electronic word cloud that tells others about us. These will also be on display at our Open House tomorrow evening, Thursday, October 6th. Although the students are anxious to share their work with you, you will have to wait until Open House. To give you an idea of what a word cloud is, and to give you some more information about me, my personal word cloud is below. I'm sure you will enjoy what your child created!
The students were also introduced to the Components of Creativity:
- Fluency
- Flexibility
- Originality
- Elaboration
Some questions have many answers: What are all of the ways you might have come to school today?
When I asked our students this second question, they came up with car, bus, walking and then jumped into more creative, unusual, and original ideas. Zacarias said, "I came to school happy today." I loved the unique angle from which he approached the question. This set the foundation for divergent thinking! Maddison thought of coming in a tractor. Emily thought of a piggy-back-ride. Jaeda suggested a go-cart and Jaynah thought of a limo. (What a quick thinking, clever group!) A portion of the rest of their list included:
- submarine
- unicycle
- skateboard
- scooter
- a huge sling-shot
- a zebra
- 4 Wheeler
- piggy-back-ride
- 100 helium balloons
- a tree bent over to the ground to fling you through the air!
I hope to see you all at our Open House tomorrow evening! Also, be sure you have gone to our Google Doc to sign up for a parent conference. If you need the link, please email me and I will resend it.
Have a wonderful week!
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