Highlights...
Our Ignite theme for the week is farms, a topic picked from
students’ ideas that were placed in a bag earlier in the year! During our
active Ignite category, students explored which animals live on a farm, as well
as which sounds they make. Samples from the estimation station used throughout
conferences, containing farming seeds, beans, and wheat/barley have begun to be
counted during our calm Ignite category. Loose parts were used by students
during our creative Ignite category to create their own farm.
We investigated and wrote about the consequences of our
grasslands disappearing during inquiry, using the prompt, “If the grasslands go
extinct…?”. This led us to explore the replica skulls of various animals and
choose a word each that expressed how we felt/ our initial reaction/
descriptive words!
In the afternoon, we continued reading our novel study, Ticket
to Curlew, and worked on Word Work. Near the end of the school day we
participated in a Circle Share that allowed us to share our wonders and fears
concerning the skulls and any other questions, comments, or wonderments we have
about the grasslands.
