Life Cycles - Science

Level One Science - Living World

AO:

Life processes • Recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive.

Ecology • Recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat.

Evolution • Recognise that there are lots of different living things in the world and that they can be grouped in different ways. • Explain how we know that some living things from the past are now extinct.

Key Competencies:Thinking, participating and contributing.

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LI: Describe the life cycle of different living things.

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Link to Bee Site

Our class our culture

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Level One & Two Social Studies

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AO:

Students will:

• Understand how belonging to groups is important for people.
• Understand how the cultures of people in New Zealand are expressed in their daily lives.

Key competencies: Thinking, Managing Self, participating and contributing.

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LI:

• Recognise the importance of our own culture and what makes us special
• Learn basic greetings for cultures within our class
• Learn about different dances and foods related to cultures within our class.

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• Learning about our NZ culture and our own culture within NZ
• Traditional dances
• Food
• Basic greetings

The Arts

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Level One The Arts

AO: Visual Arts

Students will:

• Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.
• Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others’ objects and images.
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Key competencies: Thinking, Managing Self, participating and contributing.

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LI:

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Link for grandparents gift template

The Arts

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Level One The Arts

AO: Visual Arts

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Students will:

• Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.

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Key competencies: Thinking, Managing Self, participating and contributing.

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LI: Sketch the features of a bee.

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Mediums: pencil, paint, sharpie, pastel.

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Share: On classroom wall for Pet Day art competition. Seesaw task.

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Assessment: Self assessment on Seesaw.

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Prior learning: Bee sketching from YouTube tutorial on Bee learning site.

Paint: Paint bubble wrap (one layer brown, one layer yellow) press onto the background to create a honeycomb effect.

Sketch: Review sketches from beeswax wraps of bees. What do we like? Why? Sketch bee for foreground on separate paper. Encourage use of whole page and space. Use black sharpie to outline bee.

Pastel: Use bold bright colours to colour sketch. Cut the bee out and glue onto background.

Share: Seesaw and classroom wall display.

Level One -

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• Handwashing
• Sun safety
• Cyber safety (cross over)

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PE - Sport/Swimming

Level One HPE

AO: Movement Concepts and Motor Skills

• Develop a wide range of movement skills, using a variety of equipment and play environments.

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AO: Personal growth and development

• Participate in creative and regular physical activities and identify enjoyable experiences.

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Key competencies: managing self, Thinking, participating and contributing and relating to others.

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LI: Hit, push, receive, pass, throw, and catch different types of balls.

• Project energiser
• Large balls cont.
• Swimming
• Bike riding

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Local and NZ History

Curriculum area/links

AO:

• • Understand how belonging to groups is important for people.
• • Understand that people have different roles and responsibilities as part of their participation in groups.
• • Understand how the past is important to people.
• • Understand how places in New Zealand are significant for individuals and groups.
• • Understand how the cultures of people in New Zealand are expressed in their daily lives.

• Learn and visit local places specific to them.
• Identify places around NZ of significance.

Tinkering

Levels One and Two

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Social Studies

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AO:

• Understand that people have different roles and responsibilities as part of their participation in groups.

• Understand how the past (and future) is important to people.

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L.I:

Learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle and why this is important.

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Develop a social conscience around reduce, reuse and recycling of materials

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Key competencies;thinking, using language, symbols and texts, participating and contributing.

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• Investigate and pull apart different products (e.g. printers).
• Discuss ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Talk to experts about how to recycle (and dispose) of things appropriately.
• Find ways to reuse things
• Find ways to reduce rubbish and the need to throw things away.

Digital Technology

Level One Technology

Nature of Technology

Students will:

AO: Characteristics of technology

• Understand that technology is purposeful intervention through design.

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Key competencies: Thinking, Managing Self, Using language, symbols and texts.

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LI: To identify and use the correct steps needed to upload and download ipad projects we are working on.

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Success Criteria:

How do we know when we are successful?

• When we can quick save our projects we are still working on and download them again.
• When we can save our completed work to the our g drive to access at a later date.

• Cyber safety
• Explain Everything
• Uploading/Downloading/Saving
• Pic collage - linking to art/self portraits
• Taking pictures
• Movie making
• Coding Lifecycles

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Level One -

Students will gain knowledge, skills and experience to:

AO’s:

greet, farewell, and acknowledge people and respond to greetings and acknowledgments;

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Key Competencies: Relating to others, managing self, participating and contributing

LIs:

• Recite our pepeha and share at Taumata
• Identify Maori medicinal plants.

• Pepeha
• Taumata
• Our class our culture as well
• Local and NZ History
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