I am so proud of all the hard work that each of them have done to wrap up this PBL unit! When I look at their finished teaching books, I see very clearly that the learning goes way beyond their final product. Don't get me wrong, their teaching books are great, but they learned so much more than just how to write an "All About Book." In my mind, they learned how to wonder about something! I think it is pretty powerful to think that a kindergartener has the tools to learn more about something they are interested in and create something that teaches people more about it. I know that they will take these skills on with them to first grade where they practice "We Wonder Wednesday," and I hope they take this excitement for learning home as well. Instead of passively taking in the world, we can learn more just by opening our eyes to learning. We can learn so much from books, nature observations, playgrounds, videos, conversations with people, ect. Keep on wondering, learning, and teaching!
This week, we turned our fact strips into real pages for our teaching books! We worked really hard to re-write our facts with our best handwriting and to add a picture that would add meaning and make sense with our fact. We looked at some of the previous kindergartener's teaching books to get some inspiration while we were putting ours together. We noticed that some of their books had extra pages for maps, scientific diagrams, chapters, a table of contents, ect. Some students have even been adding in those extras. I can't wait for all of you to see these books!! They have been working so hard.
We have head our heads down, focusing on research this week! We have been collecting all the facts we can about our topics from books on Epic, videos on PebbleGo, and even more from Brain pop. This is our last week to collect our facts and then we move into turning those facts into pages in our teaching books. Our reading buddies came in to help us collect our last facts on Friday. I sent the list of topics that our class was wondering about to Ms. Shaw and she asked her kids who might know something about one of these topics. Based on interest and knowledge, the kids were then given a buddy that could teach our K kids something they might not know yet about their topic.
This week we dove a little deeper into our topics that we want to know more about. We wrote down what things we already know about our topic and a few questions that we had. Then, it was off to start researching.
So, what are our kindergarteners wondering about??? Here's there big list! We each narrowed down our personal wonder lists to a single wonder that we will start researching and learning about next week!
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