eponyms – a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named
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Let’s share our knew knowledge in a fun way. Students will research an eponym using links above. In our class document, you will add a page, picture and facts about your eponym. We will then use a green screen and film your skit. Let’s have fun!
It is time to get those creative juices going again! Mrs. McBride is offering an opportunity to put your skills to work. Entries are due January 26th and must be decorated to show your uniqueness and/or passion. Find out more details for this month’s challenge here – The Snow Person Challenge.
“Forgiveness does not change the past,but it does enlarge the future.”
~ Paul Boese
Forgiveness is Cottage Lane’s Superpower of the month. At our assembly, The Forgiver reminded us about the importance of forgiveness and new beginnings. Please visit the Forgiveness Assembly page for additional songs and videos.
Below is our poem for the month, “New Beginnings”. A New Year’s Resolution is a tradition which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, beginning on New Year’s Day. One way we can better ourselves is to forgive.
Choose one or more of the questions below and write a comment:
As a school community we will place our thumbprints on a dove. These doves will represent the peace in our hearts that will bring peace to the world!
Have you ever tried to blow bubbles in the cold? Have you wondered what would happen if you did? Hope you are dressed warm. Let’s make some predictions and give it a try.
Play Frozen Bubbles!
Learn more – The Science Behind Bubbles
Let’s use this time of year to keep our logic in check. Choose from the following activities to keep your brains active.
Just like you, snowflakes are unique. Let’s try a few different ways to make them.
Challenge #1 – Try Hopscotch
Challenge #2 – Try Code.org with Anna and Elsa
Challenge #3 – Make a Six-Pointed Snowflake
Don’t forget to study your words and practice analogies!
WordMasters List #1 – 4th Grade
Analogy Practice – Analogy Game – Beginner
The Nobel Foundation has created a Nobel Peace Prize fact sheet to help visitors learn more about the history of the prize and to address some frequently asked questions. The Nobel Peace Prize website also offers videos of lectures given by past recipients of the prize.
The Nobel Foundation has an educational games site designed to help you learn about the work of past Nobel Prize recipients from a variety of fields. For example, there is a game for learning about Pavlov’s dogs. Go play today!
This week is Computer Science Education Week. Computer Science Education Week is held this week in honor of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906). Coding helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic and creativity.
Let’s CODE!
President Trump recently honored Code Talkers at the White House. The Navajo Code Talkers used their native language to invent a secret military code. Their Navajo language was tricky and was not written down. So the US Marines recruited them to help transmit information. They created more than 200 new Navajo words for military terms and committed them to memory. “I studied on my own at night,” Joe Hosteen Kellwood, one of the code talkers, said of his training. “You had to memorize all the words at the time, 211 words. They were long words. I spelled it. I learned.”The code was vital to the US victory in the Pacific in World War II. The Navajo code proved much faster than the encrypting machines being used at the time. You can read more about the Navajo Code Talkers here.