{"id":2716,"date":"2009-09-28T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2009-09-28T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:55:37","slug":"kindergarten-are-great-critical-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/kindergarten\/kindergarten-are-great-critical-thinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten are Great Critical Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2754 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"k-critical-thinking-sept-20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/k-critical-thinking-sept-20.jpg?resize=460%2C332\" alt=\"k-critical-thinking-sept-20\" width=\"460\" height=\"332\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Over the course of last week, the Kindergarten class read Hugh Lofting&#8217;s Travels of Doctor Dolittle as part of a shared reading\/critical thinking skills workshop in Literacy.\u00a0 As well as answering questions, they also acted out several parts of the book.\u00a0 Here they are creating a bridge across the mountain.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Travels of Doctor Dolittle is a story about Doctor Dolittle traveling to Africa to help vaccinate\u00a0 some sick monkeys while being chased by the king&#8217;s soldiers. It&#8217;s a fun and imaginative book.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Tracy posed several critical thinking questions and scribed what the children said. Below are two examples of questions and answers about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Question #1: What questions do we wish we could ask our pet?<br \/>\nDo you want more food? (BW)<br \/>\nWhy do you look at me? (CS)<br \/>\nDo you like baths? (EB)<\/p>\n<p>Question #2: How will the animals and Doctor Dolittle cross the mountain (to escape the soldiers)?<br \/>\nMake a bridge ( HP)<br \/>\nBend the tree to fly across it (BC)<br \/>\nJump tree to tree (GO)<\/p>\n<p>What interesting ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of last week, the Kindergarten class read Hugh Lofting&#8217;s Travels of Doctor Dolittle as part of a shared reading\/critical thinking skills workshop in Literacy.\u00a0 As well as answering questions, they also acted out several parts of the book.\u00a0 Here they are creating a bridge across the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}