Today we added to our second grade numbers and were free of those pesky third graders for the day. :) We spent the day talking about our goals as a class, what we do, and why we are here. Students read the Gifted Child's Bill of Rights and looked at what being gifted means to them. Take a look at this box office hit we made today.
We also did our morphic thinking daily routine, solved some deductive reasoning puzzles, and played a matching game to become more familiar with our Habits of Mind.
Students also read the book Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, and learned about the connections they make in their brain when they learn and how to strengthen these pathways. This year we want to be very intentional about building a growth mindset in students. It will be our goal to emphasize the part of effort and perseverance in learning and intelligence as something that can be grown. We want to turn "I can't do it!" into "I can't do it yet!"
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