Yummy Yummy!

In this unit our pupils will learn the different aspects of healthy eating: the importance of eating a balanced diet, eating three meals a day, understanding where our food comes from and why we should avoid artificial ingredients. Pupils will also learn about how food is classified and changed through different processes.

Moreover, food is a topic that every child can relate to and will be able to contribute to. Our pupils will be able to talk about what they eat and what they bring to school as snacks, and whether or not their food is healthy. Although there is a lot of food vocabulary, pupils will be familiar with quite a few names of food.

The Sun and The Moon

My Prezi presentation 

This is my prezi presentation about how the Sun, the Moon and the Earth belongs to the Solar System. We are going to learn how they move, why there are days and nights, how many days a year has, and so on and so forth.

Mind map. There's no place like space!

There's no place like space!

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the centred of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added.  So taking all these aspects into consideration, I  have planned a mind map about the solar system and I have connected with the storybook.

 I used mindomo website because it is an easy tool to create mind maps and also offers the possibility to create a teacher's profile.

 

There is no place like The Earth

Introduction

In this unit- Amazing Space- for year 1, my pupils will talk about that we live in a planet called The Earth and they will learn about the necessity to look after our planet. They will understand what we see in the sky and learn some essential characteristics of the Sun and the Moon. This unit is linked with our mini project in the school about “The Earth Day”. Moreover, they will understand that the Earth moves around the Sun and that the Moon moves around the Earth. They will talk about the seasons and will understand why we have day and night. Finally, they will consider how our activities are different depending on the time of day.

Previous Knowledge

Some of the terms that my pupils already know are: sun, moon, day, night, stars, circle, recycle, astronauts, satellite.

How can we activate my pupils’ Knowledge?

In this case I am going to use cartoons because I think that it is a vey enjoyable way to engage my pupils in the knowledge of new vocabulary, sentences and structures.

This video shows us Charlie & Lola. They are a couple of siblings that give us the opportunity to reflect in different topics. The video that I have chosen to activate my pupils’ knowledge and learning new vocabulary is based on the book “Look after your planet” by Lauren Child, (2008). I have got both versions, in digital and paper format just in case our computer doesn’t work.

The summary of the book and the video is the following: Lola is throwing everything away because she does not want her bedroom to ever get as messy and pongy as Marv’s older brother Marty’s bedroom. Charlie tries to convince her to recycle things. Charlie explains to Lola what recycle is and why it is so important. Eventually, they decided to participate in a competition and involved its school. They have got a tree counter and they need to cover all of it to get a real one tree.

How can we connect the topic with the video?

After watching the video I am going to ask them some questions in order to activate the previous knowledge and the new knowledge.

Never not ever

When Lola sneak into Marty’s bedroom and she said: “Ohh, It’s pongy”, “I do not ever, never want my room to look like  Marty’s

• What does Lola said? 
• Why does Lola started to recycle?

Recycle time

• Why do you think Charlie wants Lola to recycle everything? Why is important to recycle and help our planet?
• Do you know the name of our planet?
• What happens at the end of the story?
• What would you miss if it were night all time or day all the time?
• How can you help to look after our planet?

   Answers examples: switch off the lights, turn off the tap while I brush my teeth, turn off the TV or computer…

With this discussion we carry on with one of the most important aims of this unit. Look after our planet and know that we live in a planet called it the Earth and it is belong to a solar system.

Play time

This activity helps our pupils to practice what they have learnt

http://www.charlieandlola.com/planet/planet-game.html

Finally, I would like to comment that it is important not to say our pupils the title of the unit. For me, it is like a magic moment in which our pupils feel nervous and excited to see what is happening.

The references used to this activity are:

Child Lauren, (2008) “Look after your planet” ISBN: 978-0-141-38436-8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfazf2gVuo