Happy Friday! We started the day by\u00a0talking about the Jar of Inquiry\u00a0<\/b>and used this technique to post questions about our unit on the WONDERINGS board in our classroom. The Jar of Inquiry is a metaphor I use for the inquiry process.\u00a0At the beginning of your research, you have to build a foundation of basic information by asking simple questions that can usually be answered with a specific answer. Then, after the bottom of the jar is full, you continue building your information by asking deeper questions.\u00a0Ask your child to explain the process. Everyone contributed questions, and it gave me a better sense of\u00a0student interests and where to go next with the unit.<\/p>\n
Afterwards,\u00a0everyone signed up to be an expert on one of the body systems<\/strong>, doing more research on an area of interest to them. They will learn more about conditions related to their system, as well, so they can eventually do a project related to diagnosing a patient.\u00a0They were asked to take notes, while also documenting the resource they were using with a title, author and copyright.\u00a0This involved discussion\u00a0about\u00a0non-fiction features<\/strong>\u00a0of a book that help you find the information you need.<\/p>\n Students finished up their probability and body stations packets<\/strong> to turn in to me. If they are not done, I asked them to take the packets home. They may need some supplies from me to finish, in which case they should see me at recess on Tuesday to finish up those small details.<\/p>\n We then did some more\u00a0art related to line, symmetry and composition.<\/strong> Students folded watercolour paper in half, drew half of a butterfly using pictures provided, outlined it using black pastel, and then folded the picture so the pastel would transfer to the other side with rubbing. Afterwards, they filled the picture with background using black pastel again, then used watercolours to fill in the spaces of the picture. Some decided not to do a butterfly and chose to do a beetle, instead. Overall, they are looking great! If students didn’t finish today, they can have more time on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Professional Development day on Monday, so no school!<\/strong> Also, I signed agendas today, as I noted students need to take more care recording all\u00a0homework. We will do this as a routine until students get used to writing down assignments.<\/p>\n We are looking for jars for next Friday<\/strong> in preparation for an art project. Jars should be larger, approximately spaghetti sauce size, cleaned, no labels, with the lid. Thank you in advance for helping us with this project.<\/p>\n If anyone has\u00a0doctors or nurses they know who could come to visit us<\/strong>, please let us know! I am trying to create a panel of experts we could talk to. Thank you for your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Friday! We started the day by\u00a0talking about the Jar of Inquiry\u00a0and used this technique to post questions about our unit on the WONDERINGS board in our classroom. The Jar of Inquiry is a metaphor I use for the inquiry process.\u00a0At the beginning of your research, you have to build a foundation of basic information by asking simple questions that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}