16.9.18

Term 2 2018

Welcome back to school this term we will be learning about Matariki,plants and gardening.

Science the Living World

AIM


To be able to identify and describe the structure of different common 

flowering plants.


Success Criteria


  • I know the names of different flowers, wild and garden plants.
  • I can observe closely parts of plants and use the correct words when I talk about what I have found out.
  • I can complete diagrams showing parts of plants.
  • I can compare and contrast familiar plants and talk about what I have found out I use the right vocabulary.
  • I can record how plants change over time.


Term 3 Stem Challenges

Children were given an A3 sheet of paper they had to make the longest paper chain.

 Term 3

We have started doing stem challenges to help children to think and to talk to each other and share their ideas with each other.

Our first challenge was each group was give n an A3 sheet of paper and they had to make the longest paper chain.
We had three  groups that were  successful.
We talked about the groups that were successful why were they successful?  What did they do well?

The next challenge was to make a tower with the ingredients in their bag