Earth Buddies

The past few weeks in science have been all about Conservation and Recycling.  We began by building our schema about the two words by looking through books and inferring their meaning.  We learned a lot just by looking through books, a great illustration of how we can teach ourselves!

Then we jigsawed reading books about being Earth Buddies- that means that we split up into pairs and we each read one of the short informational books.  Then we rearranged our groups so that we could share out our learning with students who read different books, combining our knowledge to build up our schemas even more!

We are getting really good at making inferences while reading.  We know that you need your schema and evidence from the text to make an inference, and that good readers infer answers to questions that cannot be found in the text.  Our schema is what we already know about a topic, and we use our schema every time we begin to learn something new, and add to our schema while we learn.  A great book we read to talk about inferring is Seven Blind Mice. 

 Mrs. Parker-Jones came in today to show us how to use some new features on Pixie to prepare us to create our own Earth Buddy Presentations.  

We made our presentations in the production room, and shared them with other students in the school. Let's see if Miss Miller can get our presentation on our blog to share!