This post is written for my 4th grade students that I meet with each week. We talk math, we talk leadership, and this week, we again, talked GRIT!
Accepting that “experts” are made and not born has two results, one very sobering and the other liberating:
- It means that we are all responsible for our own levels of achievement – which can be scary!
- But at the same time it’s liberating, because it means that we also have the power to change it! We have the power to change our world!
You were also supposed to write down as many uses as you can think of for the following two items.
1. a brick
2. a blanket
Now, I want you to list them here on the blog so that I can see what you listed.
Do you have any thoughts about the chapter Mrs. White read to you from “Multipliers”? We’ll discuss it even more next week because I want to hear what you think! Thanks, gang! Thank you for being well behaved with Mrs. White today!
Remember, use your screen name, and the email to use is wranglers @gmail.net
Mrs. Teamann
yaman says
January 20, 2015 at 3:08 pmbrick,sledgehammer,bridge.
blanket,blanket fort,clothes,slippers,pants.
Lurquise13 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:13 pmI thought that the book was explaining that no matter what you are doing you should have grit
madskater says
January 20, 2015 at 3:15 pmwhat I know abalt 10,000,000 hwers if i had to wrke that log I cry.
TaylorSwift22 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:17 pmFirst,of all this is what I listed for brick.
Legos
Hammers
Drums
Smashing bugs
Next I wrote these for blanket.
Forts
Fabric
Chloths
Whipping people
Finally I thought that in the book,those peopole worked really hard!10,000 hours of practice is amazing!I noticed that those peopole that practiced till ten thousand hours of practice,were more successful in life!
trig111275 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:17 pmbrik; make houses make a stachu
blanket: keep warm
patrsion says
January 20, 2015 at 3:18 pmbrik: make if you melt brik you can git clay. you can brak peoples skols wath a brik. blankit: choking people: sel them.
Greekking03 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:18 pmUses for a brick= Building houses,drums
Uses for a blanket= keeping warm
I think that the book is good and interesting because it tells you about how hard working is better and how most experts practice 10,000 hours in ten years to be at the top of the list and the book made me feel strong and make me want to be gritty
madskater says
January 20, 2015 at 3:19 pma brick can be yous for fiyers and a sleghammer a blacit is yous for a black in fote
yaman says
January 20, 2015 at 3:21 pmI thought that people how practice 10000 hour must be really good at stuff.
Captaincoconut101 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:22 pmBrick=shelter,weapon,
Blanket=shelter,clothes,food catcher,
Blue345 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:22 pmI think that that it is telling me that you have to work very hard but they never give up because they have grit
Kerbals_ says
January 20, 2015 at 3:23 pmFor Brick i came up with…
-Drum
-Xylophone
-Fire Starter
-Support Beams (If cemented together)
For Blanket i came up with…
-Heat Trapping
-Torch
-Rope
-Pully
-Fall Breaker (Hold it up as if parachute and just hold it there until it breaks your fall towards a slower glide)
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And for thoughts on what we read is…
-Most top grade class students begin a steady increase in time practiced until they reach the age of 20 when they waver between 10-12 hours a week
-All of the people they quizzed only said that they practiced hard and used GRIT
-None of the quizzed were naturally talented
-Most famous athletes, musicians, & other famous groups usually didn’t grow up without the effect of being somewhat poor but even then they still tried
-Everyone listed on the top scored practiced at an effective, 10,000 hours from 5 all the way up to 20 years. Also started practicing at the age of 5 like i said.
-Usually the lowest ranked musicians is well, because they didn’t practice as much and didn’t really have grit i guess
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cboy20 says
January 20, 2015 at 3:23 pmA brick can be use to build a house to break a window and make a dome
A blanket can be use as warmth you can build a tent or a fort
The book say that you have to practice 10,000 hours to get to the major level
mathrocks says
January 20, 2015 at 3:25 pm1 brick
smash bugs
hammer
2 blanket
cuddle
towel
3 you can use these two things in different ways
Mr Cowell says
January 24, 2015 at 11:05 pmHi kids,
I used to teach 4th grade and I gave my class the brick challenge over several years. I think the most uses one student came up with was 39! Try thinking outside the box:)
Here are a few I can remember; Book end holder, back up brake for a car, fire alarm glass breaker, use the wholes in the middle of a brick to grow seeds…
Mr Cowell
sonicboom says
February 9, 2015 at 8:40 pmYou can build a house with bricks and a fireplace
You can use a blanket when you are cold, when you can build a fort and to cover somthing