Our favorite activity of the day was kicking off our year-long theme of Systems. Students interpreted the definition of a system and worked in teams to brainstorm examples. They came up with some great one! We also named the different features of systems, (boundary, input, output, elements, & interactions) drew and labeled the parts of a system, created a list of generalizations about systems, and competed in a friendly Kahoot quiz to show off what we had learned.
Generalization for Systems:
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| Ecosystem with features labeled. |
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| Road system with features labeled. |
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| Ecosystem team! |
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| Nervous System team! |
- Systems have parts that work together to create a whole.
- Systems interact.
- Parts of systems are interdependent upon one another.
- A system may be influenced by another system.
Critical thinking was also a focus today. We looked at the Foundation for Critical Thinking's Child's Guide to Critical Thinking videos. We saw three types of thinkers and evaluated them. Ask you child about Naive Nancy, Selfish Sam, and Fair-minded Fran. Students should recognize quality thinking as accurate, fair, clear, relevant, and logical.
We also did our daily morphic thinking, and practiced building a growth mindset by persisting in some brain challenges with the Set and Quiddler daily puzzles and word analogies.
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