Our criteria for good inquiry questions:
- deep-thinking
- specific
- makes sense
- we don’t already know the answer
We celebrated International Dot Day this week, a celebration of creativity based on Peter H. Reynolds’ book The Dot. The story has a great message about all of us being able to “make a mark” on the world, whether that be creating art or coming up with new and innovative ideas. To celebrate Dot Day, we made our own masterpieces that included dots. It was a lot of creative fun!! After being introduced to “inquiry” this week and learning what makes a good question, we made observations while exploring the local ecosystem that surrounds our school. Our criteria for good inquiry questions:
One of this week’s activities included a story about Norbert the pig, whose dream is to swim the English Channel. Norbert dedicates his time to training, but then realizes that he has a problem: he doesn’t know where the English Channel is! He is ready to give up, but his friends help by pointing him in the direction of “Norbert’s Channel,” a stream on their farm. Was Norbert done dreaming? Nope! The story ends with a picture of Norbert at the peak of a mountain. It was a great picture book that led to a discussion about how, like Norbert, we can also set goals, what we can do when we encounter challenges and the importance of persevering. We also talked about goals needing to be realistic (how can we swim the English Channel if we don’t know where it is?), specific and measurable. This discussion led us to setting term one goals for ourselves. Like Norbert, all of us will face challenges so we need to remember to persevere and to rely on the support of those around us. Ever heard of “Make Ten”? It’s a great Mental Math strategy that helps us add and subtract more quickly. It helps us understand place value and the relationships between numbers. To practise, we worked with dice and/or a deck of cards and used mental math to find the sum. This week also included the Terry Fox Run. We spent time in class sharing what we already knew about Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope and making connections to his story. We were lucky that the weather worked in our favour when it was time to run. It was a great week of learning in division 14 :)
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