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Preschoolers are THINKERS


UNIT OF INQUIRY

Together, Perky Preschoolers came up with their own definition of a COMMUNITY and RESPONSIBILITY. 


In connection to our previous school tour, the Preschoolers are looking at the next community they belong to - SCHOOL. They have identified people they see at DSKI. They realised that they have a lot of questions and didn't really know who these people are and what their roles and responsibilities are in the school. 


They wonder......


Next week they will FIND OUT the answers to these questions by interviewing people in the school community. 

SPEAKERS;
Maria's dad Temir Rashidova, who is a CHEMICAL ENGINEER came to school and shared with the Preschoolers what he does. He explained that engineers help make a HAPPY PLANET and clean sky for everyone. 

 

 

Dr. Sayuri, Shun's mom also came to school today to share with the preschoolers her roles and responsibilities as a DOCTOR.


Some interesting wondering of the preschoolers....
Why do you check people?
Why do you need to help each other in the hospital?

For the coming weeks, the Perky Preschoolers will be Finding Out about 2 important Community Helpers: POLICE and FIRE FIGHTERS.

LITERACY 
Story Elements: Character 
Preschoolers enjoyed listening to Goldilocks and the 3 Bears read-a-loud. In the story Goldilocks (person)  and the 3 bears (animals) were used to introduce the first Story Element, which is the character. Characters think, feel and move. Preschoolers described how the characters think, feel and move.

 

NUMERACY
Addition and Subtraction to 10
Preschoolers are continuously inquiring about the concept of addition and subtraction to 10. This week, they used bears to connect to their story, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears as counters. These concrete objects help them solve number problems. 

 

 



 

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  1. Darya20 September 2020 at 18:47

    How I love this inquiry method!! The best way to study. It’s so wonderful that children can ask questions and come up with their ideas and they are taken seriously.
    What a wonderful definition of a community and responsibility)) that’s exactly the main idea of what I was going to present as a speaker. It’s great that children have already come up with it. Thanks a lot!
    It was nice to hear kids’ ideas on how to save our planet healthy and that some of them would like to be engineers, too.

    About the book - we have a traditional Russian story “Masha and the 3 bears” (Masha is the short name of Maria). To think, feel and move - amazing angle.

    p.s. about Russian family names.. our family doesn’t pay attention to it but in official documentation it is important: most Russian family names conjugate in gender (if a family member is female she has “a” letter at the end of the family name. So in our family: daddy - Rashidov, mum and daughter - Rashidova.

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