January has come and gone and this past week was filled with new learning experiences for Ethan.
January 26
January 27
January 28
January 29
Summary from Soaring Eagle Nature School, written by Ethan’s teacher, Mink:
With a rainy start to the day, the group sought shelter under two magnificent tarps for the morning game. In a game of Head Honcho, a detective used their awareness to try and spot the secret dance master that is changing the groups moves every 15 seconds! It got everyone warmed up and they possibly could have played it all day due to how entertaining it was for everyone involved. Then, it was time for a circle to share some beats of gratitude and hear the next part to Scott’s mythical story!
The groups then went their separate ways for a period of time; Mikaela’s group foraged for tea ingredients, Mink’s group saw an opportunity to build rafts in the puddle turned pond, and Scott’s group tested out this ponds depths. But, these three group all soon ended up in the same place and interested in similar water-related activities.
Mink taught the group (and instructors) a new game after lunch to warm everyone up before the puddle madness began again. The game was called “BIG BOOTY!” You may have heard of this game. It’s a rhythm based game in which everyone has a number, and the rhythm is passed from person to person by calling their number. Everyone except Big Booty, that is. The goal is to keep the rhythm and throw other players off. The penalty for losing the rhythm is being sent back to number “0” (otherwise known as Little Booty). Perhaps it was because we were forced under the tarp by the torrential downpour, but even though it was very hard to master the game somehow we managed to get better and better at it and play for probably nearly an hour!
Another thing that happened was that a big part of the group worked on building a wooden bridge across an enormous puddle. It was exciting to see them gather the sticks and logs that were nearby to help in this process, but then run into an impasse when all the closest sticks were used up. Kids then had search further for more materials. Scott offered everyone the challenge to try to construct a bridge which someone wearing normal tennis shoes would be able to walk across without getting their feet wet at all. It was awesome to see when the group succeeded at this!
January 30
February 1
Your game you made this week, reminds me of a smaller version of this homemade skeeball game. Do you know about skee ball?
Hello Ethan and Carl,
Thank you for your patience in my response to week 23. I was very sick with the flu last week and am still going through waves of exhaustion. It has been over 20 years since I had the flu and it is a reminder of how sick one really can get from it.
I did a bit of research into the difference between the common cold and the flu.
Have you ever had the flu?
So enough about me, let’s get back to you and your learning week.
This was the first week I got to see you working actively in Universe Sandbox, what an incredible program. You seem to know your way around the program quite well!
I appreciate how you are now actively taking notes on new content, like the hottest planet and then making Youtube films. You are doing this more and more this year.
Do you like having your notes to refer to?
Do you find that taking notes helps you learn and retain more? I know it does for me.
There are a few different ways to take notes. I notice that you tend to write in complete sentences, but there are other formats you could explore.
I think you so most of these steps naturally, but jut as a reference;
You also love visuals and flow charts so maybe you would like this format:
Your work on the chalkboard is really engaging as well.
It would be fun to compile a photo history of all of your chalkboard teaching and post that to youtube someday.
So you worked on the area of the Koch snowflake quite a bit.
What were your findings or take aways from this study?
I would like to hear from you a little bit about what you discovered or learned.
Did you make any connections to fractals or snowflakes?
Some 3D Koch snowflakes:
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