August 2025
Students were excited to start the year with some familiar friends as we launched SPARK with Primary Enrichment Thinking Skills (PETS) 3. So they know Dudley and the characters from Crystal Ponds Woods from work with PETS in 1st and 2nd Grade. Now they are using Convergent Thinking and Deductive Logic to solve logic elimination puzzles and perplexing patterns. The kids were so excited to understand how to identify rules that allowed some strange characters, Waffits and Zamboids, to be part of those groups. They had to carefully identify their attributes vs other characters that were not part of those classifications. Then they had to create their own Waffits and Zamboids that also met the criteria. They loved that and their Waffits and Zamboids are proudly on display and will come home soon.
When we complete this unit, we'll move into Junior Great Books, 3rd Grade reading comprehension around the middle for the coming month.