I’ve had lots of requests to share more about how I foster inquiry in our classroom, so I’m here to share some information about our current inquiry, animals in winter! We started with inquiry brainstorm time. We do these when we wrap up our last inquiry and we are looking for new topics to investigate….
Hi friends! I’m back to share some photos of what we have been up to in our classroom this week! 1. SENTENCE JENGA I have a high group of kiddos this year where most of my kids know all of their letters and sounds (even the JKs) and are working on sight words and reading…
Hi friends! Are you excited for the long weekend as I am? Here is a quick recap of some of the things that have been happening in our classroom! 1. DINOSAUR INQUIRY Our kids love dinosaurs and but they weren’t really wondering anything that we could research about them. We finally got a few questions…
Hi friends! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five things from our classroom this week! 1. MY BOOK OF THANKSGIVING WORDS This week I introduced them to these thematic word booklets! Although I always have free choice (blank paper and half blank/half lined paper) available at the writing centre I…
This week we dived into another guided inquiry, community and community helpers. The FDK Personal & Social Expectation is: 3.1 recognize people in the community and talk about what they do 3.2 recognize places and buildings within their community, both natural and human-made, and talk about their functions First my ECE led a discussion on…
For the last two weeks we have been knee deep in everything pumpkin! First we showed them the pumpkins we brought in and recorded our schema. I copied this pumpkin chart from The First Grade Parade. Here are some of the pumpkin books we read… (Pumpkin, Pumpkin is a great one for the life cycle…
Inquiry is a huge focus in FDK and it aligns well with my view that we should learn the student’s interests and differentiate instruction to engage the students using their interests. My teaching partner (ECE) is fantastic at picking up on these interests and she noticed that a lot of students were asking questions about…
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