Ready, Set, Go -- Colonial Spy!!

This week in Gifted, the 5^th graders jumped into the Colonial Spy seminar and began learning the importance of paying attention to detail and being specific when giving directions or reading a map.  We did this by completing some map activities as well participating in a teambuilding activity where specific students were blindfolded in the classroom and had to listen to directions from teammates to get from one place to another. We also began working on learning our first secret code – the Patriot Spy Code.  This was a code actually used by Revolutionary Soldiers and is quite a challenge to decode.