What do you want to know more about?

Small group work is not new to the children in Studio Purple.  We’ve come together to discover each other’s collections, discussed how to communicate and even wondered together how to be a friend.

All worthwhile topics that have not only brought the children together as small, intimate groups but has informed us as a whole class. This time, we turned to the children and wondered “What do you want to know more about?”

The children’s rich list of ideas was the spark to forming our newest small groups.  From discovering ourselves and how our body works, animals of many kinds from the sweet domestic house cat to exotic and fanciful Lemurs, the phenomena of Rainbows to transportation, specifically investigating subways and ships on the sea and in outer space.

Gathering together each week, these groups over time will investigate their interests through questions they compose.  Asking good questions is a skill built over a lifetime.  Our advantage is still  “executing an act of curiosity”, a phrase from Dan Moulthrop that captures the beautifully open and beginner’s mind of our four and five-year-olds.  We have the time to wonder about things others may take for granted and in the process discover some things about the world and maybe even ourselves!