The children presented many ideas about the water around them, but I was curious: how much of the world is land and how much of the world is water? "Do you mean how many oceans there are?" Orin asked. And I answered, yes. Tai said that the beach is land and the water is the ocean. We further explored this concept through an art activity:
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Orin
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| Jeffery |
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| Alexis |
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| Pippa |
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| Lysander |
First, the children painted the water, and then they glued on the land. I provided the land at their request.
Pippa thought that there was more water than land, and when I asked her why she said "because it just feels right that way, I like it." She also said that we live on the land that was far from the other "lands" but we can visit the other "lands" by boat.
Tai thought that there was more land and when I asked him why he didn't paint water on the inside of his world, he said "there's not just water, there is space too."
Most of the children believe that there is more land than water and so next class we will look at a globe for further exploration.
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