Survivor!

Room 5 has been rocking with inquiry this term. We have really looked at the intersection and the kids seem to have a greater knowledge of where we have been, where we are at and where we are going. Our focus has once again been on questioning skills mostly as the children are still not quite there with the 'ask' part of our model. Having the work presented on the wall has been very effective as the children often refer to each section of the process and can discuss what has been going on. Adding the science component and working with the rest of the Junior School has been fantastic. The children have enjoyed finding information through scientific investigation and this has lent itself very nicely to explanation writing which is what we are working on for story writing. We have been using SOLO to assess ourselves as we go through the intersection and it seems to be working as a class. I am not sure if the kids fully understand SOLO yet so will still need to keep working on this each term. Next term i would like to focus mostly on Understand as it is probably an area of the model we haven't looked at in depth. I am very proud of what Room 5 has achieved this term and can't wait to see how this continues as the year goes on. Rock on Room 5!!!