Over the last few weeks, Div. 9 has been observing and collecting, questioning and hypothesizing. With the help of author Keri Smith and her book “How to Be An Explorer of the World”, we have been looking at the world around us through new and curious eyes.
We spent some time looking more closely at things that we see every day – our school! We investigated the weeping willows at the city park and discovered so many new and interesting things. We looked at the tree from afar, close up, as a home for many different beings, the root system, and as a part of our community’s history. They observed the shapes, colours, and patterns within the trees; compared them to other types of trees, and made some excellent hypotheses about how they came to be. They are starting to ask questions and build their curiosity about the natural world around them. Stay tuned to see where these curiosities take our learning next!