Cycles

This month we started discussing and noticing cycles.  Earlier in the year we had already been noticing the life cycles plants, particularly when we discussed our Learning & Growth Rubric.

We are now realizing that a cycle is anything that happens over and over again.  Or, in the words of Room 408:

We read the following book to get us brainstorming about cycles.

We brainstormed some great cycles!  Here are a few:  

• going to sleep and waking up
• coming to school and having Morning Meeting
• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
• people growing up and having kids who will also grow up to have kids

In the book we also learned about how sea turtles go back to the same beach where they were born and laying their own eggs which will hatch into sea turtles.  Of course, then we had to read this book!

This book describes the life journey (and cycle!) of the loggerhead turtle.

If you're interested to see some hatchlings, check out these videos:

Here is a leatherback sea turtle and the nesting process.



We will be thinking about cycles a lot in the month to come as we work on our space inquiry!