Everyone loves a parade! Especially learning-related (and the dress up was fun too)! Third grade enjoyed creating fabulous expressions of a vocabulary word of choice and sharing that with our Kiker community. It was great seeing the varied choices of words!
As readers, we learned about a new trailblazer, Razia Jan. Using several different sources, we learned about her and her work with education, compared her to Malala, and made comparisons to ourselves. More than ever, we are seeing the importance of using more than one piece to gather information. We discovered that, while there are differences in her school and ours, we are more alike than we are different. We are working to expand putting our thinking into written work through Double Entry Journals.
In social studies, we have read several nonfiction narratives about Harriet Tubman, Dave the Potter, Sojourner Truth. Each has taught us something more about the people, not just slavery as a subject. We are working on hard empathy (see project time below) to understand, and it's caused us to pause and consider a lot.
SBLC mathematicians have spent the week refreshing our habits as mathematicians. We know that attention to detail and a deep understanding of concepts promote our accuracy and confidence. We also know that mathematical ideas can be represented in many ways, so we've spent some time noticing how fractions, decimals, data, and other concepts are modeled and represented. We continue to use UPS check as a tool to organize our thinking in word problems and have found that our work with grouping equations and flexibility with operations has helped immensely.
As scientists, we've learned more about how fungi play an important role in the ecosystems around us and that decomposition helps make life on Earth possible. We created a "parking lot" of questions about our ecocolumns in the classroom and are using these models to spark inquiry about producers and consumers in the world around us. Next week we'll talk more about the other biotic and abiotic structures. Thanks for sending in all of the 2-liter bottles - we collected the perfect number for our construction!
In project, we finished our study of the game genre by playing a new game called "The Empathy Game." In this, we discovered that each of us, while working on a common goal, were given different roles (perspectives) that didn't match one another's. It was a silent game too, which made negotiations a little tricker! We then watched a TED talk by Jane McGonigal about the difference between easy and hard empathy. Easy is when we have actually had a similar experience -- it calls up feelings/emotions easily. Hard empathy is when we have not had that experience. We have had feelings like the people, but we can't relate exactly. This takes effort, and it uses a special cognitive portion of your brain to do. What they have found, is that if you want people to truly change, they need to experience hard empathy -- that's where they become motivated internally. Interesting things to think about.
In project, we finished our study of the game genre by playing a new game called "The Empathy Game." In this, we discovered that each of us, while working on a common goal, were given different roles (perspectives) that didn't match one another's. It was a silent game too, which made negotiations a little tricker! We then watched a TED talk by Jane McGonigal about the difference between easy and hard empathy. Easy is when we have actually had a similar experience -- it calls up feelings/emotions easily. Hard empathy is when we have not had that experience. We have had feelings like the people, but we can't relate exactly. This takes effort, and it uses a special cognitive portion of your brain to do. What they have found, is that if you want people to truly change, they need to experience hard empathy -- that's where they become motivated internally. Interesting things to think about.
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