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mystery theme
By muss15
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I teach fourth grade and I've done a mystery theme and it always lasted all year. I place the students into cooperative groups of four (Detectives, Witnesses, Policemen, Inspectors). They design a logo for the group and I display it on a bulletin board, which accompanies my cooperative group behavior plan. I cut up each letter of the word cooperate and if groups are working together I add points to the group, if they are not cooperating I take a letter(s) away. Each letter is worth 10 points. I tally points at the end of each week.
We read the mystery book The Westing Game (the kids absolutely | |
love this book) and finish the year with studying a mystery unit, which includes writing a mystery.
My math mystery bulletin board read "Super Sleuths" and all year we talked about solving the mystery of word problems.
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