In Kitah Gimmel class, when we started talking about the new season of winter, the children started very excitedly talking about penguins. When asked, all the children wanted to learn about penguins! We designed a web chart centered around penguins. This method allows all the children to participate in helping to design their curriculum based around their interests and inquiries.
We brought in penguin books and real life penguin photos - this photo book was the busiest book in our library! We discovered 17 different varieties of penguins - in helping the children to understand their sizes we constructed 2 life-size penguins - the smallest (Fairy penguin) and largest (Emperor penguin). They sought out the measuring tapes to measure each and themselves in comparison too. "Which is smaller? Which is taller? Which is bigger, me or him?"
When we asked one of the children how tall she thought her father was, she answered: "Hmm... my daddy is tall like an Emperor Penguin!" This is one example of integrating and applying what they are learning in school to their home life. Taking their interests, making it fun and being able to bring learning home is our goal!
Morah Risa and Morah Debby
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