Learning and Teaching
From Leaves to Paws - Year Prep
Our Year Prep Community has a focus on living things this term. The ‘From Leaves to Paws - What makes living things special?’ unit is assisting students to come to the understanding that living things have different features. Across the term, they will learn:
Our senses help us make observations
Plants and animals have different features
To identify and group living things based on their external features
To explain and show external features of a living thing to an audience
Using the Science curriculum, the Prep students have been involved in making observations, simple hypotheses and experiments about living things. So far in the unit, they have had a focus on plants through planting seeds to see how they grow and use the scientific skills of observing and monitoring; looking closely at leaves to identify features such as texture, veins, size and shape.
Growing plants
Students planted bean seeds to observe the stages of growth.
Investigating leaves
Students used the sense of touch to feel the texture, hear the sounds leaves make (crackle or crunch), and look at the patterns in leaves.
At the Learning Expo, the students will share what they have learnt by inviting visitors on a journey through each stage of their learning.
Deborah Courtney
(Director of Learning and Teaching)