Wednesday, May 6, is the 2nd annual Mighty Math Minds Tournament for Poudre School district elementary students. There are 15-5th graders joining me to create three teams that will compete. We will be meeting at 3:45 in the Werner parking lot to carpool over to the tournament. We should return to Werner at about 7:00pm. A pizza dinner will be provided. I cannot wait to report in next week's blog about what amazing problem solvers our Werner Wildcats are (cause I know they will represent us well!) If there was a theme this week, it was guest speaker. The first guest speaker we had was my author friend Tim Northburg. Mr. Northburg visited the 5th grade language arts students to talk about the process he has gone through to self publish his book Zebulon Quest: The Sword of Fire (available on Amazon now.) He also shared with the kids strategies and suggestions for editing and revising their writing to complete a quality product. I asked him to talk about this because elementary students have a tendency to jump right into writing without having a clear plan and then not wanting to re-read or re-work their product (it was perfect the first time, wasn't it?!) Mr. Northburg sharing how many rewrites he has been through with his book was an eye-opener for the students. Third grade language arts/creativity students had a chance to hear a guest speaker today too. Mrs. Unfug's father, Dr. John Hendrix, came to share with her reading group and mine. All of the kids had read The Green Book, which was a story about a group of people who leave Earth to try and colonize another planet. Part of their challenge in the book was to learn to grow seeds into edible crops on the new planet. Dr. Hendrix worked at CSU before his retirement from plant sciences. In the 70's, Dr. Hendrix worked on plant growing experiments that went into space. He shared with the kids the challenges of using growing techniques from our planet in a zero-gravity environment. The kids got to glimpse just how challenging it would be to try and bring the book we read to life and think about just some of the problems we have to solve if we truly want to head to Mars and beyond.
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