Peachy Keen

V Methodology
(9:30)

Episode
Today during reading we started our KWL chart. We will be reading a story about turtles and I decided to introduce this chart to see what the students already know about the subject. The class did very well with working together to fill out our chart. A couple of the student knew a lot about turtles from actually having a pet turtle. A couple of the other students knew about turtles from watching movies (Finding Nemo, etc.) After the students, who had pet turtles, told us what they knew about turtles, we went on the the middle of our chart: What we want to learn about turtles. Since our informers informed us with a lot of information about turtles, there wasn't a lot that the other students wanted to know. They did want to find out: How fast can turtles swim under water? HOw fast can they walk or run on land?? Does it hurt if a person gets bit by a turtle? Tomorrow we will start reading our story and hopefully find out some new information.

Analysis
I was actually very surprised that my students knew so much about turtles. I have never had any other pet besides a cat, so my turtle knowledge is very limited. I was glad that the students were excited to tell about their pet turtles. It will be interesting to see how they respond to reading the book later this week.