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So this magical thing happened, totally by accident, and it has been glorious.  A child visited Connecticut and brought back Buckeyes and fall leaves.  You see in Florida we don't see much fall.  Leaves that are yellow, red and orange are way cooler than green and brown.  I said, Let's put it on this table so others can check it out. And that's how the Wonder Table began...but the name came a few days later. It was also serendipity that I am in a book study reading A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades by Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough.  As I was reading, I came across their idea for a Discovery Table and I knew we would keep it. It's really simple.  Pick a spot, put a couple tools out (forceps, magnifying glas*, measuring tape, etc.), and then tell the kids to  Here is what our table looked like this morning.  We have our tools to the left, a Betta fish, snake skins, dragonfly, exoskeleton of a crab, shells, leaves, buckeyes, reptile skin, sea glas*, soil samples, and slides for a microscope.  Above is our bread experiment Close-up of snake skins, exoskeleton, leaves, and shells.  One child even found a paperclip that they had never seen before...so magical. Leaves, soil samples, buckeyes, acorns, reptile skin, and slides  I bought each child a small notebook.  Our wonder notebooks were born!  I found them at Target in the party aisle. Some of the wonderings are based off the Wonder Table.  Others like this one are based off interest. This question was based off the table.  She found out about the diets of snakes, reptiles and dragonflies and was still feeling To keep the table fresh I am going to add books that relate to topics and put out different items for each unit.  Some ideas are paintings, So that's it.  A huge impact in our clas*room happened by chance but that's how these things go. When I think about first grade math, I think about addition and subtraction.  I think about the stage of each learner: concrete,