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The circle of life

 

LIFE CYCLE

round..
goes around and around..
never ends...
repeats...
-Perky Preschool-

It is amazing how everyone (children and adults) gets hooked when talking about life. The depth and perspectives of the conversation vary between child and adult's but both agree on one thing - that life is full of wonder!

Based on their questions, the students started researching informations about some of these wonderings:

"Why do animals and other living things die?" - Leanna
" Why do animals kill each other?" - Kai, 
"Why do fish and sharks kill other small fishes?" - Mathieu

Several prompts, videos, books and examples helped them gain an understanding about FOOD CHAIN. 
Together we came up with a the meaning.

It is a process where organisms depend on each other for food. 
It is when energy is transferred to other living things. 

They discovered that a chain involves  Producers who makes their own food. Consumers  are organisms that feed on other organisms. ex: lion, people


Then, they created their own example of a FOOD CHAIN.




They also started developing their skill as a RESEARCHER. 

They used the unit books in the classroom to research about animal from 3 groups of their choice. This initial research exercise will train and give them confidence when they start on their independent research. 


 

 

We also continue to observe the beans they planted. Some have already grown taller and they started measuring the height of the sprout using cm.



NUMERACY
FRACTIONS

To develop and strengthen conceptual and abstract math, the preschoolers explored fractions. 

Fraction is important to children to understand a WHOLE and PARTS

 



This also made them understand the concept of sharing, caring and equality. 

Next week, preschoolers will continue researching about different animals: form, habitat, life cycle, food chain, and important facts about it. 

For Numeracy, they will continue with fractions and also exercise skills in measurement using centimeter (cm).

For Literacy, they will develop skills in informative writing which they will use for the output in our unit, 'How the world works.'

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