The lungs

Our class has been doing a lot of work on body systems lately. We decided to take a break from individual projects and create a model set of lungs to illustrate how the lungs work in our body. All the children created a set of pretend lungs and used a balloon on the bottom to act as the diaphragm which helped to show inhaling and exhaling.

Rugby Skills

For P.E. our class has been rotating around the teachers doing a variety of different sports, Netball, Soccer, Basketball and Rugby. Here they are learning passing and catching with rugby.

Learning about the body.

We have started to learn about the body and over the past few days we have been doing some whole class learning about a part of the body chosen by the class. The class decided to look at hair (maybe they are trying to tell me something). The first part of our learning looked at developing questions and sharing our prior knowledge. "Hair" are a couple of padlets that we used to do this as a class.

A lot of the children had similar questions so we deleted duplicates so it was easier to focus on what we wanted to know.

Created with Padlet

The students were only given a very short time to write down what they knew about hair.

Created with Padlet

And here is the video that was shown to the class. The students took notes about this video and answered the majority of the questions they had developed first.

Introduction to transformation

On Monday I introduced the topic of transformation to the class. We did a super-quick, simple exercise with paint to start our understanding of reflection. We will be looking into this in a lot more detail as the next few weeks progress.

Here are a few of the paintings.