You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
Children are naturally curious about their surroundings and they have interest in how and why things happen. As educators, we capitalize upon this curiosity by planning curricular based opportunities that also honour their current interests.
Ms Karia
Through inquiry we plan to cover curriculum expectations and fundamental concepts.
Ms Karia
Through inquiry we plan to cover curriculum expectations and fundamental concepts.
What We Wonder about Nature
As the weather has been beautiful our class has been out for nature walk. On our first nature walk we observed the natural environment and had a meaningful conversation as to what we saw around us. Children collected variety of natural materials that caught their attention. Back in the classroom children compared and sorted leaves according to shape and colour. The teaching team then planned an art activity of leaf printing. This activity gave students an opportunity to observe the texture and detail on the leaves and pinecones and thus develop observation skills.
On our second nature walk, the educators wanted to give our young writers an opportunity to put their thoughts on paper. the students equipped with their clipboards and pencils went for another observation of our natural environment! We found that the students were more focused and more observant as they had the " What I see, What I think and What I wonder...." sheet with them (Thanks to our good friend Joanne Bablis). As students explore nature we wonder where this inquiry will take us?