The fast one

We read the chapter about when Pim meets a group of baby cheetahs. He learns that they can run fast and that they have tear like markings under their eyes. They teased him and pretended to catch him! Pim couldn't wait to have a fighting lesson from his mom so that he would be able to defend himself in times of danger. 

The children were so interested in the cheetahs and the big cats that we decided to do a group lesson based on them. As a class, we discussed the similarities of the big cats and then we briefly looked at each of the following,  

After this we randomly divided our classes into groups, and allocated each group one of the cats. They were asked to make spider diagram of how their cat was similar to all the other big cats as well as how they were different.

I am so proud of the way my class is learning to work in groups. They just got on with job, created wonderful posters and did the most amazing little teach backs.