Wonder Wall

This is our "Wonder Wall"!

Kids are naturally inquisitive, but most don't know how to formulate questions yet, so we start with the basics and teach the children how to ask a question. 

We started by playing "Mystery Bag" where I hide something in a bag and the children must ask questions in order to figure out what is in the bag. Once they get the hang of that we allow the students to take turns putting things in the bag while the rest of the class guesses. You should try this at home!

After this, we move on to showing the class interesting pictures for them to start wondering about. We like to start off with pop-culture pictures so they have a frame of reference of where to start. We first talk about things that we already know and what we can see. From there we start to formulate questions about what we wonder and what we would like to find out.  We do this as a large group lesson many times before getting to the point where students can formulate questions on their own. 

It's a long process, but we can already see a huge improvement in the way students ask questions!