Learning about living things

This week we Pre K started our new inquiry unit around the transdisciplinary theme, "How the World Works". The central idea is, "Living things go through many changes."

I started by asking the children, "What is a living thing?"

Although these words were a little tricky for them, once I gave examples of things such as animals, plants, mountains and water, they were pretty good at knowing which were living. Mountain, rocks and water were hard for them to understand as they are part of nature but aren't living.

In groups, they sorted pictures into the 2 categories and glued them to the poster sheet.

In math, children worked independently on skip counting by 2s with worksheets and the students who finished and wanted a challenge did skip counting in 5s too. Using a 1-100 chart, the children were able to count in 5s and circle the numbers                                                                    5, 10, 15, 20 etc.

For handwriting we worked on letter M and N, as well as looking at the initial sounds of I, J, K and L in their phonics books. Every day we are practising our sight words. This week's words are: blue, yellow, jump, three and here.