What Is LOGIC?
This class was designed to challenge all students in their creative and critical thinking in a variety of games and activities where some times students will play as individuals, as partners, and as teams. While participating in these activities, students will be learning important life skills such as cooperating and communicating with others, focus and self control, making connections, planning, understanding actions and consequences, taking on challenges, and much more.
What does each class look like?
1. BRAIN STRETCHER -- Each class starts with a group brain stretcher to activate our problem solving skills. These brain stretchers will be leveled in such a way to challenge students but not to a place where they can't solve them. We will be doing Rebus (Word Winks) puzzles, analogies, deduction puzzles (Perplexors), etc. for this three minute warm up. Students work as a table to discuss and determine what the answers are.
2. LESSON/GAME PLAY -- All students will play the same game so groups can be fluid and our strategic discussion can apply to everyone. Learning how to play a game typically takes 3 class periods. The first day is watching video and group demo of the game. The second day most times students play in partners as they talk out strategies together. The third day students play the games on their own.
3. CLEANING UP and SUBITIZING -- Being responsible and respectful to our games is very important. Students make sure to count the pieces to make sure they have them all and return games neat and organized. At the beginning of the year students learn that working together makes this process a smooth one. We also incorporate some math skills as we ask the students to reverse subitize the pieces and put them into groups of ten for easy counting. They also find that working together at a team makes the process run more smoothly and accurately. Am so proud of our students for doing a great job these past years as we have only lost one piece despite so many hands touching the games and having so many pieces. Keep up the good work!
4. LOGIC Journal -- For our 2nd - 5th grade students, we have mini LOGIC journals as we not only glue in the directions for some of our games...especially our card games, but we also write down strategies we used that worked well. This leads to some great discussions as everyone approaches the game in different ways. The students really learn a lot from each other.
Students will start their journals in 2nd grade and will keep adding to them through 5th grade when they will take them home. We typically strategy write the 3rd day of the game as we have spent the other class periods talking about different approaches. Students are encouraged to write down strategies as they play too.
1. BRAIN STRETCHER -- Each class starts with a group brain stretcher to activate our problem solving skills. These brain stretchers will be leveled in such a way to challenge students but not to a place where they can't solve them. We will be doing Rebus (Word Winks) puzzles, analogies, deduction puzzles (Perplexors), etc. for this three minute warm up. Students work as a table to discuss and determine what the answers are.
2. LESSON/GAME PLAY -- All students will play the same game so groups can be fluid and our strategic discussion can apply to everyone. Learning how to play a game typically takes 3 class periods. The first day is watching video and group demo of the game. The second day most times students play in partners as they talk out strategies together. The third day students play the games on their own.
3. CLEANING UP and SUBITIZING -- Being responsible and respectful to our games is very important. Students make sure to count the pieces to make sure they have them all and return games neat and organized. At the beginning of the year students learn that working together makes this process a smooth one. We also incorporate some math skills as we ask the students to reverse subitize the pieces and put them into groups of ten for easy counting. They also find that working together at a team makes the process run more smoothly and accurately. Am so proud of our students for doing a great job these past years as we have only lost one piece despite so many hands touching the games and having so many pieces. Keep up the good work!
4. LOGIC Journal -- For our 2nd - 5th grade students, we have mini LOGIC journals as we not only glue in the directions for some of our games...especially our card games, but we also write down strategies we used that worked well. This leads to some great discussions as everyone approaches the game in different ways. The students really learn a lot from each other.
Students will start their journals in 2nd grade and will keep adding to them through 5th grade when they will take them home. We typically strategy write the 3rd day of the game as we have spent the other class periods talking about different approaches. Students are encouraged to write down strategies as they play too.