Interrupting Chicken

Our guest bloggers Delaney and Kathleen with our daily report...
                                                                                   

the wonders of alert   

Today in alert we learned how to managing impulsivity with the interrupting chicken than we made up are own interrupting stories like the interrupting bunny.   

We learned about csi crimes with evidence.

We also did are weekly morphic thinking. The sp (spontaneous problem) was making crazy names for colors.

     This week we spent our time together taking a closer look at one of our Habits of Mind.  First we read the book Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein and discussed it as a non-example of managing impulsivity, thinking before acting, and using your brain to manage your body.  Students then created their our Interrupting ___________ stories and presented them to the class.  I'll tell you, we have quite the creative crew!

     We also did some brain stretching using deductive reasoning puzzles-my favorite!  Try your hand at these!

Sports Logic Puzzle

Pet Mix-Up Puzzle

An Eye for Details

     Our time was short today, but we made the most of it!  Students witnessed a theft in our own classroom and used what we learned about composite sketches to make a drawing of the perpetrator. We then looked at some online activities testing their powers of observation and helping them match the suspect with the crime.  Try them for yourself!

Art of Crime Detection

Perp Walk

Face Memory

The thief

Online facial sketching

Line Plots, Eye Witnesses, and the Case of the Sugar Shaker

   This week our CSI focus has been on questioning and eye witness accounts.  Students participated in various activities geared toward understanding quality questions in interrogation, the often unreliable nature of eye witness testimony, and the power of close observation.  

     In math we worked on creating line plots with data and using the graph to find the median, mode, and range of the set.

     We also took a pre-assessment on forensic science and used last week's fingerprint evidence to compare with our suspect samples and determine the prankster that switched our sugar for salt.