This term's focus is: "The weather in my world".
Week 1: The Reception students investigated weather patterns, such as from the web site www.bom.gov.au , and created their own designs. Check out some examples:
Week 1: The Reception students investigated weather patterns, such as from the web site www.bom.gov.au , and created their own designs. Check out some examples:
Week 2:The Reception students investigated how weather in spring affects animals eg, farm animals born - lambs, foals, piglets, chicks and ducklings (plants flower and fruit). Students then recorded these ideas in a form of drawing. Check out some examples:
Room 24 students drew themselves on a typical spring day doing a sporting event (ready for next week's Sports Day).
Week 3: The Reception classes explored what animals do to avoid the cold weather. Some animals, like whales and some birds, migrate to warmer places. Some animals, like bears and long-neck turtles, hibernate during winter months.
Week 4: The Reception students explored wind. We read the book "The Wind Blew" and then each student drew a scene from it to create a picture quilt. The students then paired up (speaker and manager) and experimented if certain objects (eg. feather, lid, matchstick, cardboard, tissue paper, marble) could move from wind.
Room 24 went around the school as wind detectives, looking for strong and light wind areas (using streamers as a form of measurement). What area do you think had strong winds? Check out some examples:
Week 5: The Reception students explored clouds. They checked out the cloudy days on the weather website; watched a part of a DVD about clouds; and reader a book about clouds. With this information they created a cloudy scene using cotton wool for the clouds.
Check out room 21's cloudy scenes:
Check out room 21's cloudy scenes:
Check out room 24's cloudy scenes:
Check out room 22's cloudy scenes:
Check out Room 23's cloudy scenes:
Week 6: The Reception students investigated how hot weather affects animals. How do they keep themselves cool? Dogs pant and moult; kangaroos, wallabies and cats lick themselves; elephants flap their ears and spray water on themselves; snakes prefer warm weather but hide when it is really hot; and koalas stretch out.
Week 7: The Reception students had a close look at the life cycle of the Long-necked turtle. It sleeps (hibernates) in winter; wakes up in spring; lays eggs in summer; and the babies hatch in autumn. Students had to colour , cut and place this sequence in order.
Week 8: The Reception students watched the The Dreaming Story "The Rainbow Serpent". They then recorded their ideas in their books and then created a mobile of the serpent.
Week 9: The students reflected on their term's learning and drew something they learnt about cold and hot weather.