Term 2 - How the world works

Hello everyone!

At the start of the term we began our second unit, How The World Works. Our central idea was "Peoples actions affect living things" 

Our lines of inquiry were:

Lines of inquiry

• Form - Differences between living and non-livings things

• Change - Living things change in time

• Causation- Living things change for different reasons

The first thing we discussed was what are living things and what are not living things? Words like living things and non-living things were new words to most of the class but they were able to quickly get the idea of what the lesson was about. We had a ton of picture examples of living and non-living things and we put them into their respective categories.

We then took a look at plants. It came as a shock to some students that plants were, indeed, living things! And we looked at how plants grow, and what they need to grow. We then took that same idea and applied it to other living things. "What does a frog need to live?" "What does a bear eat?" The students of Pre-K surprised me with their knowledge so far in this unit.

Our next step was to learn about the habitats and biomes of the world, and I appreciate all the effort parents put in to help their children learn it as it was during our time away from the school. Big round of applause for the parents during this time!

When we got back to the classroom we reviewed everything and then got to work on our summative assessment. Planting! The students had a lot of fun painting their flower pot and then planting seeds. The best part about all this was getting pictures from home as the plant started growing. The goal of this unit was to show students how we affect living things. To take care of a plant is a pretty difficult task and I was happy with seeing how far students went in order to care for their plants.

We are now underway with our next unit which is "Sharing The Planet". Our goal for this unit is to learn about resources and how sharing them helps us.

Here are some other pictures of our time in the classroom.

painted her hands!

fantastic at making vehicles.

made himself a helmet.