The big idea...
Have you seen any flowers today? Where did you see them? Have you seen any insects? Where did you see them? Flowers and insects need each other. Without insects there would be no flowers. And without flowers insects would go hungry.
In Science, we’ll be finding out:
• Where flowers and insects prefer to live and grow
• How and where seeds grow
• Observational experiments to discover how plants use water and light
• About the life cycles of insects
• About ants and bees
In Geography, we’ll be finding out:
• About the migration of the Monarch butterfly
In Art, we’ll be finding out:
• About paintings of flowers and insects
• How to make paintings and models of flowers and insects
• How to use symmetry to make paintings of insects
In Music, we’ll be finding out:
• About the music of the famous composer, Rimsky-Korsakov
On Tuesday we jumped into our new unit with the Entry point and Knowledge harvest. Together we brainstormed the names of as many different types of flowers as we could - we got 18! Then we brainstormed the names of different types of insects - we got 31! However, some of the insects on our brainstorm included worms and spiders and already some students were questioning whether they are actually insects or not. Together we will clarify if they are considered insects later in our unit, but we can see that the students come to this unit already with a wealth of knowledge about different flowers and creepy crawlies!
We then did our first observational study and plotted out 3 different areas measuring 1sq metre. In these areas we scratched and searched for anything we could find and classified them into three categories - Things that are living now, Things that were living, and Things that have never been alive.
The children have also started a collage by cutting out pictures of insects and flowers from magazines. It was a fun way to start our new unit, and we are all excited about learning a lot more!
