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Hi, my name is Laura and I will be teaching 1st class in September. I have been teaching junior and senior infants for the past 14 years so this will be a change! My favourite space fact is that Venus spins in the opposite direction and is the only planet in our solar system to do this.
I love science and really enjoy teaching this subject. As I’m going into 1st class, I look forward to doing lots of enquiry based activities with the children. There is so much for scope for deeper thinking and learning and I love to teach through group and pair work which is perfect for this kind of tracing and learning. The examples given in module one were all very practical and interesting ways to teach about gravity and materials. I have taught lessons in infants that were enquiry based and very hands on in how we investigated and tested materials when trying to figure out which materials were waterproof and ones that were not. I love the idea of giving the children a stater question or fun scenario to begin the lesson. I am a big advocate of learning through play and this is a perfect way to introduce a topic and get the children invested and interested. I look forward to checking out all of the activities and ideas on the curious minds website and putting them into practise.
