Room 2

I have found the concept of this inquiry difficult in the fact that it doesn't lend itself to group interaction in the sense that it is a personal inquiry. On the other hand, because of this, it has allowed our focus for this term of asking questions to not be lost in amongst all the other things that an inquiry involves. The children have been very motivated to get into it because it is about them adn their family.
We have spent a lot of time on SOLO, and increasing our understanding of this and how we can use it. We have linked all of the discussions about questioning to SOLO and asking ourselves what type of thinking are we doing when we answer this question? We looked a lot at the different levels of SOLO and how none of them were "bad", and sometimes we need to think at different levels for different tasks.
The class have now come up with their own questions, derived from the four subsidiary questions we chose as a class. Some of these I have left at a lower level of thinking, rather than getting the kids to rework them. This is so that we can discuss any other questions they may have needed to ask and whether they actually got the information they were hoping for. Some of the kids have already decided that they didn't have the right question to start with and so have reworked it themselves.
Next week we will start to understand and present our information.