NATIONAL FRANKENSTEIN FRIDAY

National Frankenstein Friday on the last Friday in October recognizes author Mary Shelly, the novel Frankenstein, her characters, Dr. Frankenstein and the monster. Dating back to the 1800s, Frankenstein’s monster is one of the best-known horror characters of all times.

Created by Mary Shelly at the age of 21, Frankenstein was first published in 1818.
Frankenstein was made famous by Boris Karloff in the movie Frankenstein in 1931.

August 30 is also known in some sources as Frankenstein Day. August 30 is author Mary Shelly’s birthday.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Watch a movie featuring Frankenstein or read the original book written by Mary Shelly and find out who Frankenstein is on Frankenstein Friday. Use #FrankensteinFriday to post on social media.

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First Grade:

This week In Language Arts we discussed what they knew about vowels and consonants.

I let them know that each word has at least one vowel sound. I also told them that the number of vowel sounds we hear should match the number of syllables in a word. We took it a bit further and I explained to them that if there are two vowels together, the first one does the talking. I then introduced the

secret language called Pig Latin to the children. This is another fun way this unit has them find connections to a new language. Pig Latin is a fun language game that, although no one is sure, is thought to have begun on playgrounds in Europe and England over one hundred years ago. It is also believed that Thomas Jefferson wrote letters to his friends in Pig Latin for fun. The children are really having fun with Pig Latin. We will continue with this lesson next week.

Second Grade:

The children continued working on their Pages Persuasive paragraph project. A few needed a review of Pages. It is a pretty easy app and the children are all technology savvy. They worked on typing their project on Monday. On Tuesday they finished up typing and started on their drawings and audio recording. They were super excited to record their voice reading their paragraph. We will start our presentations next week.

Third Grade:

This week the children shared their journals. I sent them home last Tuesday and they were due the following Tuesday. The rest of the time was spent working on their Hamburger Paragraphs. Last week I walked around to help edit their

papers. After that, they wrote a rough draft. I introduced Pages to them and we briefly touched upon how the app works. A few were pretty far in their typing. They also drew a picture and recorded themselves reading their paragraphs. We will start presenting next week.

Fourth Grade:

This week the girls finished up presenting their new word using the Greek and Latin word elements. We then read a short story called Windshield Wipers from the book Girls Think Of Everything. I love this book, especially since we have all girls in the class. After reading about Mary Anderson's ideas and steps to inventing the windshield wipers, I read and explained the creative stations they would be visiting. I placed half sheets of paper on the back table. Giving them an end in mind, I let them know that they needed to complete at least 6 papers of their choice. They were really excited to get started.

First Grade:

This week in math I started a Think Frame with the kids. The question I gave them was, what does it look like when someone wins? They then had the big task of actually writing their response. We alternated students at the doc cam since they were all so excited to take a turn. We broke the question down just like we do in the other grades. We pulled the question out and wrote it in the first box, so we made sure to answer all the parts. We will continue this next week by transferring out thoughts to a Think Deeply.They are learning to write like mathematicians by doing this.

Second Grade:

We worked finishing up are triangle worksheets. The children had to take triangles and flip, slide and turn them to make a different shape (square, parallelogram, rectangle, etc). We also looked at classifying triangles under the three different names: scalene, isosceles and equilateral. We also looked at their angles (acute, obtuse, and right). The children were very intimidated by this at first. Most said they were unfamiliar with this activity. After defining the different characteristics with them, they were able to easily categorize the shapes. We will continue with this activity next week.

Third Grade:

We continued working on completing the pattern in the chart. They have to figure out what is the pattern. Writing +2 is unacceptable and I have made that clear. We went over that a couple of times. Many had to erase and rewrite their answers. The response I am looking for is, "Add two to the previous number to get the next number." They completely understand this, but were trying to take the easy way out. Then they are asked what number they started with on the calculator? It's not the first term on their chart. Finally, they are asked what the 15th number is without extending the table. This is where the formula comes in. Most just wanted to use their calculator to get their answers, even though I told them they needed a formula. They should take 15 times the number it increases by, then add the number they started with. 15 x 2 +1. This took a bit longer than anticipated. I think after this week, we got it!

Fourth Grade:

I asked the children to draw a Venn diagram that included: Quadrilaterals, trapezoids, rectangles, rhombi and squares. Most automatically went to the standard two circles overlapping which didn't work for this. Some drew five or six circles, which also didn't work.. This was a somewhat challenging activity and they were stumped. I quickly went over the Venn diagram. We will touch base on this next week since most were confused. I love all the questions I get though. It tells me that while it's difficult, they are still interested in the material. Win, win!!