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New Directions in Creativity and Thinking SkillsIn Kindergarten and first grade I will do whole group activities to develop creative thinking abilities in children. I will meet with the Kindergarten class once each week for half an hour beginning the second semester. I will meet with first grade class once each week for half an hour for the entire school year. Activities will allow children to do divergent thinking, providing opportunities for their minds to flow across a broad range of ideas and possible solutions to a problem. The focus will be on creativity in Science and Social Studies using the Kindergarten and first grade standards. The four areas of creative thought that we will develop are as follows: *Fluency~ This is the ability to generate a flow of ideas, possibilities, consequences, and objects *Flexibility~ Many different approaches or strategies in solving a problem *Originality~ The ability to produce clever, unique, or unusual responses *Elaboration~ The ability to expand and develop ideas, stories, and illustrations
Dear
Parents and Guardians, This
year Lori McIntosh will be teaching an enrichment class for grade one students.
Lori will do whole group activities to explore subjects more in-depth in
science, multicultural stories, service learning, and creative expression. Lori
will be in the first grade classrooms once a week for half an hour.
She is looking forward to getting to know the children and helping them
to develop creative thoughts. If
you
Sincerely,
Lori
McIntosh, Elementary
Art Teacher and Jennifer
Selting Bauer
Enrichment
Specialist &
Photo Gallery2005-20062004-2005
2003-2004In First Grade, we are learning about our environment. On the day we took these pictures, we took a walk and collected clues from our environment. After our walk, we examined our clues to make deductions about the environment we live in.
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Questions or comments, please contact Jennifer Selting Bauer at jbauer@esu8.org . Pages last updated on: 12/16/2005
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