Exploring the Unknown!

This week in 4/5 Navy we became explorers! After watching ‘A Pep Talk’ we focused on the ‘Two Paths’ mentioned in the poem by Robert Frost. We went out into our school grounds and found two paths, one of which was less travelled and explored what it would have been like for explorers who were constantly on the path less/never travelled. We tried to leave our mark on the environment we were in by writing our names. It was hard because we did not have a pen or paper or any other conventional writing tools. However in the end we saw the possibilities in the things around us and once we started to see the possibilities it was hard to stop.

 

We returned the this part of our school later  in the week and were surprised to see that some of our names remained and some had disappeared with the rain. We then took a snapshot of something that we could see and sketched what we saw. It was important that we included a description of our snapshot so that we could really get all of the details correctly recorded. Initially we found our descriptions to be very simple but after some feedback from our peers we had specific and helpful ways to improve our writing.

 

Later in the week we thought it would be interesting to contrast the things we left behind in our unexplored environment to those things that allow us to know an explorer has been somewhere. So we set about finding answers to the open question ‘How do we know an explorer has been somewhere?’ We found this very exciting and recorded all of our findings in our OneNote Notebooks.

 

Our exploration and discoveries have only just begun but we are very excited for what is yet to come.

 

Stay Tuned!