Hi Cooper families,
During one of our
class discussions this week the children started to think and wonder about the
sun and the moon. This was the beginning of conversation that ignited the
children’s interest:
Hamish – The moon
changed, it was full at Lewis’ party but yesterday it was a half moon.
Miss Gilbert – Why
do you think the moon changed?
Sebastien Ha. –
The cheese monster is making the moon bigger and smaller.
Aston – Because
it’s shrinking.
Zali – My mummy
said when the moon changes at night into a half moon, the moon just looks like
that.
Zara – When its
morning I can see the moon sometimes and its white and its half.
Lexie – I saw the
moon turn into rain.
William P –
Maybe the moon turns into the sun in the day.
William A –
It goes away and the sun comes up.
We decided that we
would go to the Prep school library to collect books to gather more information
about our wonderings. Over the next few weeks we will be exploring these
concepts and building on the children’s current knowledge about space.
The children have been
very keen on building and constructing this week. There have been some amazing
creations built around the centre using various materials. What makes this
experience even more amazing is the teamwork, verbal communication and
cooperation that the children are displaying in the process of constructing
these buildings.
We were lucky
enough to have some heavy rain this week, which meant that we had big deep
muddy puddles to jump and splash in. You could see on the children’s faces how
much fun they were having as they freely explored the puddles using their hands
and feet.
We hope you have a
great weekend.
Love Miss Gilbert
and Miss C
