2014 started with a ROAR when a mysterious package was delivered to the kindergarten classroom this morning. Inside was a giant EGG! We made some observations and inferences as to what was inside the egg.
This student thought there might be a chick inside the egg.

Next I gave the students three clues to further guide their inferences.
After receiving these three additional clues, students recorded another guess. In the meantime, the egg began to hatch. Look what came out!
 Later in the day we officially began our dinosaur unit by recording students’ schema. I wrote down exactly what each students said, whether it was fact or fiction. As the unit progresses, we will record our new learning, as well as any misconceptions on our schema chart.

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