Group 1
Charlie: I found 3 fours, look!
Ms. Inge: Some of us have done this before, but I don't know if you remember.
Lottie and Charlie: I remember!
Lottie: Remember, there was a caterpillar that turned into a butterfly.
Ms. Inge: Oh, yes! Now, did you also keep in your mind how to play this game?
Charlie: You need to take one of the boxes away and look and see if it has a fairy. It's one of the hands.
Ms. Inge: Oh, you think it's a fairy already.
Alister: Maybe the block fairy.
Charlie: Yes.
Ms. Inge: How do you know that? Is it for sure a fairy or might it be something else?
Charlie: It might be something else. It could be a backpack.
Ms. Inge: Okay, let's try number one.
Alister & Lottie: A nut, an acorn, hair!
Lottie: I think number five will be a big one when we take it away. I think we will see a person.
Ms. Inge: What makes you say that?
Lottie: Cause the acorn and the hair mixes and then there will be a head under it.
Alister: I see it! I know it! I know! I know! I know! I see a part of a fairy wing. It's a fairy.
Ms. Inge: Wow! You're really noticing things.
Try: Can we open number five?
Ms. Inge: I wonder, is that how we would play that game? Do we go straight to number five?
Many: No, number two is next.
Ms. Inge: Yes, sometimes we have to wait for the ending even when we want to jump right to it.
Trey: I think it is a fairy.
Lottie: I think it is a fairy.
Yahvi: I think it is a sword. A Korean sword.
Ms. Inge: Why are you thinking that?
Yahvi: From my brain.
Ms. Inge: Is there a clue in the picture that tells you that? ... So some people think that it is a sword and other people think it might be something else. Interesting. Are we ready for number two?
Zachary: A yellow circle and a box. A yellow circle thing that goes around people's heads.
Alister: Those are fairy circles.
Ms. Inge: What about the leaves? Can you make any connections from what you see here to what you see over there?
Trey: I don't know what is it.
Ms. Inge: Where do acorns come from?
Lottie: Trees
Ms. Inge: Where do leaves come from?
Zachary: Trees
Ms. Inge: Hmmm....
A Few: They are the same!
Ms. Inge: Yes, those two ideas are connected! Let's try number three. Are you ready?
All: Yeah!
Charlie: A slingshot.
Zachary: It looks like a bag. It looks like a bag!
Trey: Because, look! A belt!
Ms. Inge: Oh, do you mean the buckle? Can everyone try to say that tricky word?
All: Buc-kle.
Ms. Inge: So that means we have two different ideas about this same picture.
Trey: And that is the handle.
Alister: A ninja turtle bag. A shell bag.
Trey: A ninja turtle bag.
Ms. Inge: Oh, so do you think that the big picture is a ninja turtle?
Many: Naaaahhhhhh!
Ms. Inge: So, you're saying that doesn't make sense? That these things should match.
Many: Yes!
Ms. Inge: If this isn't a ninja turtle shell, what might it be? ...
Trey: Look how many fours we have to open.
Ms. Inge: Let's look at them now.
Many: It's a fairy.
Charlie: I know it's a fairy. It has wings.
Ms. Inge: What else do you see that tells you it's a fairy now.
Yahvi: Arms.
Zachary: The bag.
A few: Can we open up five now?
Ms. Inge: Oh! You really want to find out now. Okay... Let's see if what we thought at the beginning was right. It's a ...
All: A fairy!
Ms. Inge: Has your thinking changed from the beginning? I wonder...
We continued chatting about how we knew the fairy was a fairy. Many of them noticed that he had different shaped ears and that he had wings. We also noticed a lot of similarities.
Group 2Ms. Inge: Right now we can't see any part of this picture. Do you have a thought about what this might be?
Rhea, Dadu, Hailey, & Alena: A cheetah.
Maks: I think it might be an airplane.
Dadu: I think it is a race car.
Onni: Batman and Rosie.
Ms. Inge: A picture of our puppets.
Hailey: A fairy.
Ms. Inge: So, do you notice many people have different ideas. That means we are not sure what this picture really is.
What is our next step friends?
Many: Take off number one.
Ms. Inge: When I take it off, look, see and notice what is in the picture.
Rhea: I see flowers and leaves and a long tree.
Ms. Inge: A tall tree with ...
Rhea: A log.
Ms. Inge: Actually, this part is called the trunk and this part is called the branch. We do have logs in our playground. Rhea you noticed details about this tree.
What do you notice about your thinking? Has your idea changed from what you thought when all of the squares were on the picture?
Dadu: I don't think it's the same. I am not sure.
Ms. Inge: What did you think it was going to be before? A race car.
Maks: I think it's going to be a race car.
Ms. Inge: Your thinking has changed. What did you think before?
Maks: It was an airplane. Now, it is a race car.
Ms. Inge: Roman, what do you see?
Roman: I see a pond. That part looks like a pond.
Ms. Inge: What else might that be?
Charlie: It's grass.
Lottie: It's blurry.
Ms. Inge: People have different ideas. When pictures are blurry, it might be hard to know what it is.
How about the big picture friends? Does anyone have an idea of what it might be now?
Alena: I don't know.
Many: Let's look at number 3. ...It's a forest!
Ms. Inge: It does look like that. I wonder, do we still think it's a race car?
Dadu: There is no race car house.
Ms. Inge: Or a race car track.
Dadu: I don't think it's going to be a race car.
Ms. Inge: Your thinking has changed.
Maks: I think it's going to be the forest.
Ms. Inge: Your thinking has changed, too.
Onni: Maybe it's going to be a forest with many cockroaches.
Hailey: I think it's going to be still a fairy. I think it's going to be a forest with a fairy.
Ms. Inge: What makes you say that?
Hailey: Because the fairy live in the forest.
Maks: Last time, I went to the forest I saw a snake in the forest.
Cal: I think it's going to be a forest.
Charlie: A leg! A leg! A leg!
Yahvi: A human!
Ms. Inge: What makes you say that?
Yahvi: Because it has a dress and hand.
Ms. Inge: Does anyone else have another idea?
Charlie: I think it is a dinosaur because it has the same leg as a dead dinosaur. It looks like the bone.
Ms. Inge: I can see your brain is thinking about why you think that. You are thinking about what makes sense from what you have seen before.
Ms. Inge: Let's try our next number.
Many: chatter...
Ms. Inge: Hmmmmm.... I wonder if our thinking has changed now. Do we still think it's going to be a race car?
Many: Noooooo!
Onni: I see wings. It's going to be a fairy.
Ms. Inge: Can you show us where? (Onni points) Oh, you noticed a small details. You looked very carefully. Do you want to take a look at our last piece?
Charlie: It is a garden fairy.
Ms. Inge: What makes you say that?
Charlie: It has wings and Tinkerbell had a garden fairy.
Ms. Inge: Oh! So Tinkerbell taught you about garden fairies.
Now, let's check our thinking. Has it changed from the beginning? Raise your hand if it has.
(many hands go up) So, many people's thinking has changed. Great! Our brains are getting stronger when they change. Flex your big brain muscles like your brain getting stronger! ;)
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