Questions, questions and more questions!

Have you ever thought what life would be like without questions?  During our buddy time we have been learning about questions.  We started off by reading the book "Why" by Richard Torrey and a section of the book "The Philosopher's Club. 

These books started our thinking about questions.  After reading the books we made a list of all the question words we could think of.
                  


Once we had our list of question words we were given the challenge to come up with as many questions about a basketball as we could. 
There was lots of conversation going on!  How many questions can you think of about a basketball?









The next time we met with our buddies Kyle and Jamie introduced us to the idea of red light and green light questions.   

Check out the chart they made for us. . . .




Once we knew what a red light and green light question was we were given another challenge.  This time we had to sort our questions about the basketball into red light, green light and trash questions (questions that weren't relevant to our topic or that didn't make sense). 




Here are some examples of our thinking. . . . .

When we met this week we worked in groups of 4 and looked at our decisions.  Our task was to share our thinking of why we put our questions where we did. We were allowed to change our thinking after we had heard our partner's thinking. Many of us did change our thinking after hearing what our partners had to say.



At the end of our working time today Mrs. Betts left us with . . . . . a QUESTION!. . . . Here is what she asked us "What question words stimulate red light thinking and what question words stimulate green light thinking?"  I wonder what we'll do next week with questions?