The Penguin Project

Today in class, Dr. Smirnova discussed one great activity one of her past students is doing while student teaching to a second grade class.  The class she is teaching is currently learning about penguins and the class had many interesting questions about penguins.  The student teacher decided to write a letter to an author who wrote a book entirely about observing penguins, asking him the questions proposed by the students.  He replied to all of their questions and even provided pictures!  I thought this was a great idea to show students that the classroom walls should not stop their learning about any topic at all.  I will use this idea in my future classroom to teach my students about various topics that they are not familiar with.