April 2022
Happy April!
This month's newsletter is the fourth in our series exploring simple ways to help your Young Scholar grow and stretch their brains by learning more about the types of thinking used in Young Scholar lessons.
We will once again be looking at characteristics as well as questions and resources to help guide and encourage your Young Scholar to use their brain in new ways.
So, whether you are familiar with these different thinking styles or just getting started, the activities and resources below include quick and easy at-home ideas to help your Young Scholar grow their thinking and build on their strengths.
Our April focus will be Evaluative Thinking.
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What is Evaluative Thinking? Evaluative thinking involves making choices and offering solutions, decisions, or opinions that can be supported based on factual, measurable, or observable considerations. Evaluative thinkers recognize more than one viewpoint and understand how different considerations, or criteria, can affect an outcome | Getting Started Try out these questions to get your Young Scholar using evaluative thinking. | Logic Games and Puzzles: At-Home Evaluative Thinking Activities Click HERE or on the image above for some fun ways to use logic games and puzzles to build evaluative thinking skills. |
What is Evaluative Thinking?
Getting Started
Logic Games and Puzzles: At-Home Evaluative Thinking Activities
Books for Building Evaluative Thinking
The topics and characters in the following books pair nicely with the Evaluative Thinking conversation starters above.
Each of the books below is available for checkout at Washington County Libraries.
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The Favorite Book by Bethanie Deeney Murguia The Favorite Book is a sweet, and colorful celebration of how we choose the things we love best. | The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost This edition of The Road Not Taken is a beautifully illustrated version of Robert Frost's classic poem about life's choices. | Case Closed Mystery Series by Laurie Magaziner If your Young Scholar loves mysteries, they may want to try the Case Closed series by Laurie Magaziner. In these books, the reader follows along with the main character Carlos and his friends Eliza and Frank as they put together clues to save his mother’s detective agency. Best for grades 3-5. |
The Favorite Book by Bethanie Deeney Murguia
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Case Closed Mystery Series by Laurie Magaziner
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Crestview Young Scholar Family Night
You are invited to this year’s Crestview Young Scholar Family Night! When: Thursday, April 28, 2022 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Crestview Elementary Click HERE for more details and to RSVP. | Hillside Young Scholar Family NightYou are invited to this year’s Hillside Young Scholar Family Night! When: Thursday, April 21, 2022 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Hillside Elementary Click HERE for more details and to RSVP. |
Crestview Young Scholar Family Night
You are invited to this year’s Crestview Young Scholar Family Night!
When: Thursday, April 28, 2022 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Crestview Elementary
Click HERE for more details and to RSVP.
Hillside Young Scholar Family Night
You are invited to this year’s Hillside Young Scholar Family Night!
When: Thursday, April 21, 2022 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Hillside Elementary
Click HERE for more details and to RSVP.
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Star Tribune 2022 Summer Camp Guide Explore the Star Tribune 2022 Minnesota Summer Camp Guide to search camp choices by interest, age level, price, location, and more. | U of M Summer Youth Programs The University of Minnesota Youth Programs offers a wide variety of summer camps for ages 6-16. Camp sessions include swimming and indoor rock climbing in addition to hands-on activities, themed projects, arts & crafts, and recreational games. | Summer Camps at The Works Museum The Works Museum in Bloomington is hands-on engineering and design museum. The museum is a great place to visit any time of the year, and they have a wide variety of summer camps as well. Scholarships are available for up to 50% off the cost of camps. |
Star Tribune 2022 Summer Camp Guide
U of M Summer Youth Programs
Summer Camps at The Works Museum
Contact Information
Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions, thoughts, or needs!
Colleen Redmond
