Wondering Wednesday, December 7, 2016

We continue to review hearing and sound and in the process of researching and creating trading cards. The first card we are working on is on human hearing, and the second on hearing of an animal of our choice. This has been a fun way for us to communicate all the knowledge we have gained over the last few weeks.

  During our mornings, we also have been reading in our grade 3 reading groups - looking into the books, making connections and generating great group discussions. In gym we have also learned a few new dances during Creative Movement. 

We wondered about the synonyms for "swooped". This is a descriptive word used in the book that we continue to visualize and reflect. We were able to see that the owl was the animal taking this action (as the bear, mole, mouse, and fox had other verbs describing their movement). This is a word that we identified as a verb (action word) that is already replacing/a synonym for 'walked' or 'moved'....

"zoomed down"

"whooshed down" 

"whooped down"

"swept down"