The Penguin Experiment
The Kohavim children have been thinking about which animal might make a good classroom pet. One animal that was suggested was a penguin. The children had many ideas about what a penguin might need. They thought a penguin would need to be cold and eat fish. They realized that in our sensory table we had snow. They decided that we could keep a pet penguin in our sensory table full of snow. Some children were not sure this would work, so we designed an experiment. Jacob drew a penguin to be our pretend pet penguin for the experiment. The children put the pet penguin in the sensory table. They decided to cover the table because if we had a real penguin they thought it might jump out of the table. They immediately noticed there is not a lot of space in the sensory table and wondered if that would be enough space for a penguin. They decided to leave the pretend penguin in snow overnight because when we do get a classroom pet it would have to stay at school overnight. We can't wait to check the sensory table tomorrow morning and see how our pet penguin experiment has gone!
Hannah mentioned this and was very excited to investigate its feasability. She also mentioned a bunny...what a lucky group! From personal experience - I'd go with a fish :)!!!
ReplyDeleteReally Rebecca? You don't want a cheetah living next door?
ReplyDeleteYou heard them, a cheetah would be too fast for tag-they have really thought this through :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you continue to nurture the children's ideas and allow them to experiment with some of them.
ReplyDeleteI think a cheetah would be cool just hard to contain :)