IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Today began our first official day of recording our findings on the particular planet we chose Monday. I used the questions that the children came up with yesterday and made a table for the children to fill out. We reviewed the questions and talked about how we would figure out those responses. Then they broke out into their groups. I was blown away with how eager the children were in finding facts about their planet that they could add to their research paper! They were raising their hands left and right to tell me what they had found!

After the children were done we gathered together and discussed any new information we learned while researching. This is a snippet of the conversation:

“Saturn has 60 moons!”-Oliver
“I thought Saturn has 61 moons.”-Jonah
“In Oliver’s research he found that Saturn had 60 moons so we will honor that right now, but maybe we need to research some more to see what is the most accurate information.”-Mrs. Bucher
“It takes 1 year for Earth to go around the sun.”-Saa
“And what is another word for “go around the sun?”-Mrs. Bucher
“ORBIT!”-Many friends
“Mercury is the first planet.”-Heaven
“The earth travels around the sun.”-DeOnna
“Venus has dusty rocks on it.”-Selam
“It takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to go around the sun.”-Jonah
“That is long!”-Jamari
“Why does it take that long to get to Uranus?”-Bucher
“Because it is so far away!”-Jonah

What great thinking! They are already learning so much about the planets so I am excited to see and hear what else they learn about their planet.

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