To pique curiosity about Penguins, I set out some books, some stuffies, and little figures at our Discovery Centre. The children enjoyed choosing to go to this centre throughout the day. Then, we looked at books to see what we could discover about things that people do to take care of pets. The children also shared what kinds of things they do to take care of their own pets. At the end of this Group Time we came up with the inquiry question: In order to answer this question, we will need to do much research to find out more information about penguins. We created a list of things that we wondered about penguins. We've even managed to find some answers to some of our questions already. We've found some answers in "information" (non-fiction) books that we've read as well as by watching some short penguin videos. And so it began...the children looked through many non-fiction books about penguins to see what they could discover about penguins. Even though reading is difficult for them at this age, the pictures can provide lots of information. At our Discovery Centre we have set up Antarctica with penguins on ice floes. Some of the children investigated what other animals would live with the penguins and they made some other animals to add to our centre. The children have enjoyed playing “predator and prey” with the animal figures. Many of the children have also enjoyed dramatizing with our Penguin Sensory Bin. It has many penguins as well as a number of predators. On Thursday we received a special delivery box from Antarctica. Mrs. DeFehr delivered it to our classroom. We noticed that it even had air holes in the top. We opened it up to find our new penguin friend, Percy. He came all the way from Antarctica because he heard that we were going to be learning about penguins in our classroom. Included in the box with him was a note about his journey from Antarctica to Kamloops. He will be fun to have in the class as we continue on our research journey!
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Ramandeep
1/7/2020 07:54:10 am
I read your the whole inquiry about the penguins. It is very helpful to give step by step instructions to plan and run inquiry in the class.
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