Places in the world

Next half term we're going to be learning about places in the world that we've visited. I'm really looking forward to this topic as there's so much that can be done with it and the children love talking about their holidays.

I went into school today to get the display started to get my class interested. It's still in the early stages but here's what I have so far:

The map is just printed on sheets of A4 plain paper so that it can be scrawled on easily as I want it to be really interactive. You can create the same effect with any picture using blockposters.com.

I'm hoping the children will really get involved and bring in photos to share etc. I'm also hoping to talk to some people in different countries and ask them questions.

More of my Science/Outdoor Learning display

In my last post I showed you my Science display that we had just started. I have put our Science work and Outdoor Learning work together so this is everything we've been doing in one space.

 

My class have all planted their own bean plants which you can see in this picture. Each child also has their own bean diary where they can record what happens to their plant. I'm using the templates made by Twinkl which can be found here. 

We do Outdoor Learning every week in my class and it's a great opportunity for the children to explore the outdoors. It also links perfectly with our Science topic. In our lessons so far we've done a scavenger hunt of different natural materials, created snow master pieces with food colouring in water and made some amazing story sticks which you can see below. Each child was given a stick and was then asked to attach to it things that they found on their journey around the school. This task encouraged children to find different natural materials but also involved a lot of fine motor skill work and problem solving.

The finished products look great and the children are really proud of what they made.