Mario and inquiry

Here is a photo from our class. Its Mario, the leather back turtle from The Isle of Man and his travel diary. The children love him already so our travel buddy work is all go. The diary also mentioned puffins - so another interesting animal to find out about. The kids loving learning about new things. We used google to find out about this kind of turtle and we found some great little videos. Also Mario's school has been commenting on our class blog. All this work is kind of inquiry based with questions and wonderings, ICT and recording our findings. Our BIG inquiry on the new entrant room is still at the finding out stage so we had better get on with that too.

Travel Buddy News

Kikorangi has arrived in the Isle of Man and Mario is on his way -so our Travel Buddy work will get going again. So Kikorangi's Kids blog on classblogmeister will be more exciting. I need to work with L. on thursday about how to put on pictures etc in a safe way.

Next Goal

L. said that our next 'goal' will be more like a 'research' and the more I think about our class inquiry about our ideal New Entrant Classroom and RE and probably other aspects of early childhood learning I am wanting to make that my 'area of research". Wouldn't it be great to learn along side the children - to think, to question, to view, to make, to design, to listen, to????? like them. I am excited about my learning again.

However, I better keep going with our Travel Buddy work also. I am bad at not finishing things properly. Oh and that class blog needs to develop- great that K. Mum's comment came through - it was me not clicking on the right heading. I need to get other whanau involved too.

Travel Buddy

L. has just send an email seeing if my class want to take part in another travel budddy exchange with a school on the Isle of Man. I think room 2- 2009 are ready now as they 'love' Kikorangi so the connection is in place, some of the kids can 'write' so we can do exchanges re e- mail and I am ready to work with L. to set up our class blog (as I am loving playing around on this blog.)I have had a quick look at the school's web site and I bet they will exchange an otter??

This morning my Mum went to my grandaughter's (so its Mum's great - grand daughter)child care to be videoed to be part of her blog. Wow 4 generations of my family are part of this ICT learning world.