Shark Research Continues...

We are having a blast learning to research sharks in room 5! We started by reading lots of books about sharks and taking notes as a class. We then moved on to writing down our lingering questions about sharks and trying out internet research to find answers to our questions. After a couple weeks of research we identified chapters we would want to have in an "All About Sharks" book and organized our class notes under those headings (types of sharks, body parts and teeth, shark pups, food, cool facts, and parts of a shark/diagram).

This week students began using our organized class notes to write pages for their own individual "All About Sharks" books. You can see some of the pages from one student's book featured below. We are planning to finish and bind these books at the end of next week to take home!

Today we started an additional, techy part of our grand shark project. Colchester schools have individual Google accounts for every student in the district and students make use of these more and more as they progress through the grades (I will begin teaching this class to use their individual accounts after April break -- for now they all work on one class account). I began working with groups of students on their first ever Google Slides presentation today! They will be working together in groups to create digital "All About Sharks" books that we will share online before April break. Below are some photos of the two groups who met today to begin work on this collaborative tech project. Be sure to ask your child about our shark research at home! We are learning so much and having a fantastic time doing it!