Animal Groups

Communication is important to develop understanding.

As we begin with the Finding out stage of our inquiry, the preschoolers gathered together to sort the different animal pictures. They were encouraged to talk about their sorting and explained how they decided to sort and why. 

As these little inquirers are still expanding on their English vocabulary, they were supported with a variety of prompts. Together with the developing language skills, they are also still developing a deeper sense of thinking skills to build foundations for later problem-solving skills. 

Asking a lot of open and leading questions as prompts helped support the inquiry. 

At the end of the activity, the preschoolers came up with 6 animal groups:

mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects and fish

Together with their group they used and schemed our class unit books. 

They looked at resources to find information about the animal group they chose.

They supported one another to understand the information from the book through the pictures, context clues and reading. They communicated their ideas and collaborated with one another in the group.

 

Preschoolers were introduced to using BULLET POINTS for making lists and writing down facts. This organizational device makes it easy to read, and helps break up chunks of ideas. 

Below are the output of the successful research completed by the Perky Preschoolers! 

  

 

Next week, they will present their work as a group.