We are inventors!

Tivemos o dia do inventor. As crianças brilharam como sempre, mas desta vez na pele de outros personagens. Conseguiram se apresentar com segurança nas duas línguas e enfrentaram o medo de se expor em público. O mais emocionante foi ver neles um olhar de conquista , um brilho nos olhos que levaremos para sempre. –Ms. Carla e Ms. Patricia 

Good morning Einstein!

Kid Inventors Day falls on Benjamin Franklin’s birthday and celebrates the curiosity and entrepreneurship of kids. To encourage our students to dream about their own inventions and learn about biographies, we celebrated an inventor’s day at school. The first step was to work on Maple Bear curricula unit 5 “biographies”. We catalogued our own classroom library and reserved a special “sanctuary” for our incredible non-fiction books. We visited the library and explored the biography section.

Students created rapport with Fernando, our school librarian, he guided them and suggested many books. Students shared the life of others through oral presentations and book reports. Students were learning about Elvis, Jackson Pollock, Sally Ride, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth, Bill Gates, Queen Elizabeth even Barack and Michelle Obama were involved. Although most of the above mentioned are not inventors, it served as a trigger to introduce students to biographies. After, we invited them to research about inventors using a variety of resources. Google classroom provided a platform for guided research and keeping track of written evidence. Fourth graders also created their own inventions and patents, they had a blast. To finalize the unit project, they chose an inventor and created a trifold presentation in both languages. Students took action by presenting their character in different classrooms.

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