Our Current Inquiry: Learning about Asia!

Our students are still very interested in learning about the world and different kinds of flags. Today, Miss Smith taught us about a new continent: Asia! We learned that Asia was the biggest continent in the world, and had the most people in it! Here are some paraphrased quotes from our lesson :)

"Asia is bigger than North America!" - Owen

"It's bigger than Canada!" - Vienna

Miss Smith showed us different flags of countries in Asia/bordering between Europe and Asia. We knew some of these would look familiar :)

"That's Turkey's flag! Me and my family are from there!" - Lara

"My dad was in Vietnam visiting family" - Kevin

"I've been to India before!" - Gurshan

Miss Smith: "Why do you think these flags look similar?" 

Vienna: "Because they're all from the same country (continent)" - Excellent inference, Vienna! :)

Then she showed us some different types of buildings that could be found in Asia.

Miss Smith: "What do you notice about these buildings?"

Lilly: "In the top, left picture, there are a lot of trees". (Awesome directional language!!)

Miss Smith: "What types of shapes do you see in these buildings?"

Nathan: "I can see triangles on the roof!"

After our lesson, we invited some students to come over to our inquiry corner to add to our world map! I found these awesome stickers at the Dollar Store that I thought would be fun to add to our world map. We had to consult our Atlas to help find where some of the countries were!

Lilly added a sticker of the Mexican flag to Mexico :)

Lara adding a sticker of the Canadian flag onto Canada.

Vienna placed a sticker of a panda bear on China since that's where they live!

So much learning happening around our current inquiry topic :)