Donte
Q: Why when you on the moon it look half earth?
A: It said on the internet, what you see when you look at the moon depends on the location and the relationship of the sun and the earth. You see a different fraction of the sunlight bringing reflection from the moon to the earth.
Me: Can you put that in your own words?
Donte seems stumped
Kayla: What did he say?
Donte: What you see is when you like when you on the moon it's like how the moon orbits around the earth.
Jaymon: I agree with you because when we was watching the video it was saying how the moon orbits the earth. Because since the earth is going around the Sun, probably the moon orbits the Earth and the moon is at the bottom of it that's why we see a half.
Me: Can you explain why the moon is at the bottom of the earth?
Donte: On the internet it showed a picture of how when the Earth is by the sun, you really can't see the moon. When the moon is at the bottom of earth it's a quarter moon. When the sun is by the side of the earth it's a full moon.
Deavion: I think in this picture it looks the black sky is reflecting off your eyes to make the Earth look cut in half.
Jaymon: Since North America is up, the sun shines at the top. But in the morning, Africa is all asleep.
Kayla: I was going to say something similar to what Jaymon said, the Sun goes around
Jaymon: No, when the Earth goes around the SUn
Kayla: Half of the Earth is black, and that half is asleep and the half that gets sunlight is all woke.
Me: What would have helped us understand Donte's answer better.
Deavion: Read it clearer.
Kayla: Put it into his own words.
Me: COuld you visualize what he was saying? What would have helped us see it better?
Kayla: Draw pictures.
Deavion: He did draw a diagram.
Me: Can you explain it?
Donte wants to revise it.
New question
Deavion
Q: How come you have to wear helmets in space?
A: It's not a lot of oxygen in space or on the moon and then when you take it off, your face puff up.
Jaymon: At first, when I had, I want to answer her question. I thought when I first saw the man had on the thing, I thought they were football players. It's similar to the thing.
Kayla: The only reason why I had asked that question was because you don't have to wear them down here but up in space you have to wear that.
Jaymon: Trees help us breath. But in outer space...I feel sorry for them. Oooh, I got another question. If the people jump on the moon are they going to float?
Kayla: They going to float. i think it said it on the brainpop video because it don't got no gravity up in space
Donte: well it do, just not that much
Kayla: I agree with that, it do have some but not much like it do down here.
Jaymon: I agree with Kayla but how do they walk on the moon though. Do they have special shoes?
Deavion: they have spikes
Kayla: THey got space boots with spikes to help them.
Jaymon: but these look like regular boots.
Me: Sounds like another question you can research.
Jaymon tries to phrase question: "Do they have spikes on the bottom of their shoes?"
They all say it's closed
Me: Why?
Deavion and Kayla change their answers
Jaymon: because it starts with do.
Deavion: you said it start with why it's a closed question.
Kayla: I think it's open because you can like discuss it, like why do they have spikes on the bottom of their shoes and they might have a lot of good answers.
Jaymon: It's closed, do you think it's closed?
Me: I dont want to say.
Donte: I disagree with you because if they got spikes on the bottom of their shoes, how do they jump?
Me: Let's stick to whether the question is open or closed. It's closed because../. How can we make it open?
Kayla: Why do they have spikes on the bottom of their shoes?
Donte: How do they...
Deavion: I wonder if...
Me: What are astronaut's shoes made of?
Jaymon: Yeah, and it looks like the moon is made of lava. What kind or rock is it?
Me: it sounds like you guys want to ask more questions. Donte, can you work on the diagram for next time about why we see half moons? Let's start reading the next few pages of the book and ask questions.
We then went on to start reading the guided reading book with a focus on asking questions. Kayla wonders why it says that though the first Apollo mission succeeded, it did not put the first man in space. Donte infers that it must have been a different space program that was first.
Donte took the space book with him on our bathroom break. In the hallway, Donte raised his hand to show me the part of the book that says the USSR sent up the first spaceship with a human on board, Yuri Gregarin. He also realized that there was a difference between being the first to orbit the moon, and the first to orbit Earth. I wanted him to ask what the USSR was, but I didn't push it when he didn't ask. It's amazing how questions just lead to more questions, it's like the renewable resource of learning!
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