Boost 1
As should have been explained to you, this Boost class (Boost 1) will meet every second week on a Monday. Your child has strength in the classroom with either literacy/numeracy or both, and this time will be especially dedicated to developing their skills and interests, while also helping them to work more independently. Having a solid base of independent awareness and skills means that they can take on further work if required in their own classrooms, now and also in future.
Today we embarked on independent inquiries. The children had been asked to think of a topic or interest that they would like to find out more about. I helped the children take this interest and form a big question for them to research over the next few weeks. They then recorded all knowledge that they already have about the topic, so that at the end of their research they can look back and see how much their knowledge has increased. We also made a mindmap, plotting all of the places where they can begin to look for information about their topic. They will have a copy of their question and their mindmap to help keep them on track at home.
We will do this inquiry in specific steps, this fortnight I have asked them to just find any information that they can about their topic, and in our next Boost session we will look at sorting through that information.
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