This week our inquiry takes a turn towards the future. We have explored changes in the past to the present and identified why these changes have taken place. We are thinking about what we need to consider to make decisions about the future and what information helps us to make a decision?
Provocations:
Designing transport of the future – children will develop designs and prototypes of transport for the future. We will explore different designs and find out what is needed to make a good design. We will use different materials to build our own prototypes and pitch our ideas to others. Children will have opportunities to explore the design process and think about the considerations needed when designing.
Creating a self driving train systems – Using Ozobots (little robots which follow directions from texta lines) we will build a self driving train system. After looking at maps of Melbourne and thinking about what it will look like in the future we have started to draw our own maps. Children will have opportunities to learn about co-ordinates and compass points to help others read their maps.
Writing for the future – We are writing about life in 2048. We will work out how old we will be and write about what we think life will be like. Children will look at the tense they use when writing about the future compared to writing about the past.
A Pigdon Streetscape – After spending time exploring and observing features of housing in Pigdon Street we are building our own Pigdon Streetscape using houses from the past present and future. Children are using a variety of craft items and cardboard to recreate the different styles of houses.
Literacy
In literacy we are starting to read the novel George’s Marvellous Medicine, by Roald Dahl. We will be exploring texts to find questions, statements and spoken text and the difference between them. For writing we will be using the book, ‘That’s How I see Things’ as inspiration to make our own animals. Children will develop spelling skills through taking parts from two animals and making their own creature. e.g. Girphant. They will then describe these animals using adjectives.
Numeracy
This week we are reading the book, A Million Dots by Andrew Clements. In the book he makes comparisons between record breaking numbers and the number of every day objects it would take to be the same, such as 232,224 shoe boxes would be three times taller than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth. We are using the book to think about place value and learn how to read numbers into the thousands and beyond. Children will order numbers, make their own comparisons using informal measurements and create their own dot paintings to make our own book.
