Over the past couple of months, we have been exploring the concept of Movement in our classroom. Our focus was on the movement of the Earth around the Sun and how this is connected to life on our planet.
Younger children enjoyed learning about our calendar - where the names for the days of the week and the months of the year originated. During our weekly French lessons, they also learned the connection between French calendar names and our Anglo-Saxon calendar names.
 |
| Making a shadow clock |
We also explored day and night as well as phases of the moon. The children made shadow clocks and we connected this with learning to tell time in the classroom. It was fun going across to the school hall to explore the aspects of light on a darkened stage.
 |
| Demonstrating phases of the moon |
Older students were fascinated by how the human eye works and they embarked on a self-directed project to explore this further.
 |
| A spontaneous project on how the human eye works |
 |
| Presenting the eye project to the class |
As a class, we discussed topics such as light and shadow, reflection, refraction as well as the opacity of various objects.
 |
Making shadow drawings
|
 |
| Exploring opaque, transparent and translucent objects |
No comments:
Post a Comment