The Inquiry Cycle

This week, we had fun inquiring about many things in our unit, How We Express Ourselves.

Applying the Inquiry Cycle to something fun and relevant...Our WINDIANS!!! We had fun learning about the history of baseball and celebrating our Cleveland Indians....and the CAVS home opener! What a fun day of investigating!

Ivy's on first!!!

This looks like a good team! Go CAVS!!! Go Indians!!!

Finding out about our second line of inquiry; 
Causation; How do ideas and knowledge impact our creativity and our actions?

What are finite resources and how does sharing them help?

How do children in other parts of the world overcome the odds with limited resources? Taking a look at life in Uganda (Katwe).

​“How can I use what I have to get what I don’t have?” Robert Kantende to his chess students

What limited resources are people dealing with around the world? How are others helping? (This knowledge is inspiring action from others)

What limited resources do we have in our class, school or community?
In our class, we used our creativity to come up with more seating, tables, and shelves for our books. 

What can we do about it? (Knowledge of this impacts our creativity and our actions)

When you want to give a gift without spending any money, you can upcycle.

Being creative with game pieces for math games we made.

Inquiring about local leaders and systems around our city

Meeting Mayor Frank Jackson, City Council President, Kevin Kelley, and Global Cleveland President, Joe Cimperman

Touring City Hall

Touring Public Square
Finding out how LAND Studio used their knowledge and creativity to help make
​Public Square a beautiful green space. 

While Eloise's Grandma, Mrs. Kung was in town visiting from Philadelphia, she stopped by to give us a lesson on the voting process. Mrs. Kung is a poll worker and was able to help us understand all that goes into Election Day. We learned so  much and walked away with a lot of appreciation for the Political Responsibility that people demonstrate when volunteering their time for Election Day. November 8th will be a long day for poll workers.

Did you know that in Philadelphia, they do not have early voting?

Reflecting on our week and completing homework from our new learning menu. We enjoyed all of the lessons that were taught by classmates this week.

Fall fun while going to see Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters at Playhouse Square!!