First grade is starting a new unit called Powerful People which is the study of successful people and the character traits that make them successful. In addition to learning about their character we also study some of the areas of that person's expertise. For example, we will learn why Milton Hershey was a powerful person, and we will also think like a scholar about: CHOCOLATE, yes! (Coming soon) In our introduction to this unit, we look at ourselves as powerful people. To help us understand this, we watched a short clip about JJ Watt helping a young boy who was being bullied at school. Most of us thought JJ Watt was powerful because of his muscles, but we learned his real power is helping people! We created small lego sculptures to remind us about each trait and a self portrait that includes a frame of our own special traits. We will add extra individuality to this project with help from an iPad app called word cloud, and will post pictures of that digital project later.
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