5th Grade Works on Growth Mindset

The 5th graders worked on Growth Mindset, Systems Thinking, and Design Thinking this week.  To practice Growth Mindset and Systems Thinking, they did a challenging puzzle on the interactive white board called, “Blocky Christmas.”  As they reached higher levels, the students encountered more obstacles and really had to persevere.  They also had to think about what mistakes they were consistently making so they could break out of frustrating cycles of incorrect answers.  In a different activity, “Holiday Hink Pinks,” the students again applied these skills to help them solve the riddles.

In addition, the 5th graders also worked on Design Thinking with the Bloxels kits.  We hit many obstacles because the app has been updated and only part of it will work with our district filters.  But we powered through and got the beginnings of some games completed.

3rd Grade Thinks More About Thinking

Having finished Billibonk and a Class Dojo series about Growth Mindset, the students worked on polishing up their “Thinking about Thinking” slideshows this week.  They added some more lessons they’ve learned about thinking and peer edited to give suggestions for improvements.  I’ve included some of the slides from their presentations below.  As soon as they are finished, I will publish all of them on our blog!

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3rd Grade Begins Work on Genius Hour Presentations

Jordan was our blogger for this week and Keely was our photographer. The Kahoot quizzes Jordan mentions were about having a “Growth Mindset.”

Today in GT we did a project on recycling.   Me and my group made a scavenger hunt for the rest of the class to do.  We also used an app called Kahoot.  Cristian won the first round.  I won the second round.  The last thing we did was test out a new Osmo game that has not even come out yet. It was fun but a little bit scary.  It was the BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

3rd Grade Learns About Growth Mindset

This week’s 3rd grade blog post was written by Jordan.  Our class photographer is Keely.

Today in GT(gifted and talented) we did a paper about a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.  We also watched a video about it.Today we also read a book called, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain.  We also did a math thing on the ipad.  Mrs. Eichholz showed us a bunch of clues about the problem on the board and we tried to figure out the number.  We really had to use our brains to figure it out!