Hello Kindergarten families,
During our Morning Meetings we will often do a Share to help us get to know each other better. One of our Shares this week was "What is your favorite food?" One friends' response was "fish," and that inspired a discussion about how one goes about catching a fish? It was super exciting to hear students give a step by step description of the process of how to catch a fish. We paused our discussion so that we could move into recess, but agreed to come back to it later in our day.
That afternoon, each student worked in their own journal and depicted what their idea was about how to catch a fish! It was really neat to see how some friends used different perspectives to show what is happening above water and below water. Also, friends started using lables to help identify key components of their ideas in their drawings. This was the class's first try doing journal entries, so be sure to come in and check out their ideas!
As a group, the friends decided what key words they would need to know how to spell and added it to our brainstorm list:
Here are are a few examples of friends' work. What can you infer about what they feel is the process to catch a fish?
One of our first investigations this year is revolved around insects. Our burning question that students answered in small groups was, what do insects need to live happy and healthy lives? The class took a moment to give some ideas, which ranged from the types of food they need to survive, whether it's other bugs or people's blood; grass to live in and sky to fly in; or to be with their families.
Check out some first tries at explaining their theories around this concept:
It's exciting to see how these friends are able to put their thoughts down on paper!
Thank you for checking out the blog and going through it with your child so that they can see how their work and their friends' work is so special and important. Be sure to pop in to the classroom to check out the others!
Love, Gaby
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