Welcome back! I hope that you a refreshing and bonding winter break!
This week in with 3rd-5th Grade classes, we focused on learning more about the brain. Students shared what they already knew about the brain, then we read Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak. The book highlighted the major parts of the brain: Cerebrum - Thinking and Speaking Cerebellum- Muscle Coordination and Balance Prefrontal Cortex - Planning and Decision Making Hippocampus - File, store and recall memories Amygdala - Controls emotions and Neurons-- tiny brain cells that send messages to other cells to control body functions. We had fun checking our short term memory by having students memorize the number 2831908. I pointed out that hearing something multiple times, said in different ways, helps keep items in our memory. We stressed the importance of practicing to help memorization and muscle memory so that you can build on the skills when you need to. Students shared skills they were working on like cooking, dancing to jazz music, and riding a bike. A student shared that while he is confident bike rider he is now trying to do wheelies. We discussed the importance of pressing forward and continuing to try new things because even as we make mistakes our brains continue to grow. At points throughout the lesson students made connections to the text... a few shared that they have a favorite word...I look forward to find out what some of those words are during our next lesson! Comments are closed.
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