Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I never mentioned the science aspect Frances but yes, the lessons would be linked with science as well.
The activity I’m choosing is Rockets for infant classes.
I would start with the story Edward Built a Rocketship by Michael Rack and Graham Ross (I also like the big book Zoom to the Moon).
I will build the idea of creating rockets and ask how we would make them. What do most rockets look like? Do they look similar – why? What properties does a rocket need?
Lots of integration available in this area.
English – reading Edward Build a Rocketship and Zoom to the Moon.
History – sequencing
Science – experiment Rocket Mice – predicting and investigating which makes the longest distance.
Maths – measuring and recording the distance – comparing – language, longer/shorter.
Art – making rockets using different designs and materials.Displays – 3d rockets – data display of which rocket travelled further.
Tracy, that’s a total wow – I hope you don’t mind me using some of the ideas in my room. I absolutely love the planets song and it really is enjoyed at the younger end of the school. Thanks a million!
I’m having trouble posting this so I am slightly changing it in order to post it but not lose it. So many choices….but for now, I would choose the activity set – Where do you live?
I would begin with a firm favourite (of mine), the storybook A Squash and A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. I love using different voices and making my voice squeakier and crazier as the woman asking for help that her house is too small.
I would then show different types of homes on the IWB – caravans, apartments, tents, terraced houses, semi-detached, small houses, mansions. We could have a chat about different experiences living in the different types of homes.
For SESE – we could look at some animal homes – what makes them similar/different? – look at houses around the world.
We could draw a map of the area we live in and count how many different types of homes are in our area (houses/apartments/caravans).For Art – we could make houses using different materials – sticks, card, paper, paint, glue etc and create a mini village display.
So many choices….but for now, I would choose the activity set – Where do you live?
I would begin with a firm favourite (of mine), the storybook A Squash and A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. I love using different voices and making my voice squeakier and crazier as the woman asking for help that her house is too small.
I would then show different types of homes on the IWB – caravans, apartments, tents, terraced houses, semi-detached, small houses, mansions. We could have a chat about different experiences living in the different types of homes.
For SESE – we could look at some animal homes – what makes them similar/different? – look at houses around the world.
We could draw a map of the area we live in and count how many different types of homes are in our area (houses/apartments/caravans).For Art – we could make houses using different materials – sticks, card, paper, paint, glue etc and create a mini village display.
That sounds fab Saoirse. Just to spice it up a little (and to do something in a fun and different way) I would let them lie on the classroom floor to look at the stars. It gives them a slightly different perspective and lots of giggles.
I choose Space and Aliens.
I would start with the story Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman. I would also show a clip from the movie Monsters vs Aliens.
After discussing the story and what else aliens might love, how they would feel if they landed in our classroom we would move on to other integrated lessons.
1. Creative art – making aliens – I would get the children to cut out any shape in card that they would then paint the colour of their choosing. While that is drying they can cut out legs and arms using coloured sugar paper. I would remind them that they can use as many or as few arms and legs as they like. They will then assemble them and stick on as many or as few googly eyes as they feel is right.
2. Maths – colours – we would use the aliens they made and do a little show and tell, describing the colour of the body and the arms & legs. Counting and adding on – we would use they aliens in pairs/groups and count how many legs/arms/eyes individually and combined.
3. Drama – the children could explore the classroom as aliens – what do the things around the room do, how do they work? We could discuss communication methods.
4. Construction – using blocks/lego/mobilo or other items around the classroom the children could construct alien spacecraft.
Such a straightforward and infant friendly set of integrated lessons. I love the use of Twinkle Twinkle. How cleverly you’ve integrated the nursery rhyme across such a wide variety of subjects and I can imagine an infant class getting a lot of fun from these lessons.
Wow, Laura, that’s a great fact – and exciting because most (if not all) children will have been to the beach.
Hi There, my name is Susan and I teach in Dublin. My favorite space fact is that it takes nearly three days to travel to the moon. I have visited Kennedy Space Centre many times and touched moon rock each time. It is an amazing place.
I love to do floating and sinking with infant classes. I use different materials – an orange (both peeled and unpeeled), play doh in a ball and shaped as a thumb pot, a stone, a tick, a pen, a pencil, a bottle, other items from around the class. Infants love water play and it leads very naturally to the ideas of waterproof items and waterproof clothing. At infant level, I start by telling the class that I can do magic. When we finish the lesson I remind them that I said I could do magic and now so can they. A magician is just a scientist.
