Warrington School/Curriculum Planning/Room 1 Planning Term 2

Term Two Themes

Keeping ourselves safe and eating healthy, Matariki and celebrating diversity of learning styles

Overall Goals;

1. Evaluate term 1's Moa inquiry
2. Understand own learning style and celebrate our diversity
3. Investigate healthy food and share findings
4. Undertake a statistical investigation and display results
5. Create radio adverts on being safe
6. Participate in a Matariki celebration

Links:

• Health - 5+ A Day Nutrition Websites Phytochemicals Still life fruit and vegetables Rainbow food Winnowing Quinoa
• Maori - E Papa Waiari E papa Waiari Haere Mai - KohangaHeare Mai - Nga tamaHaere Mai - Wedding
• Second Language Learning - NZ Sign Language
• Potential Kinetic Energy Song

Mathematics -Statistics

• Statistical investigation
  • Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle:gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category and whole number data and simple time-series data to answer questions;identifying patterns and trends in context, within and between data sets; communicating findings, using data displays.
• Statistical literacy
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in representing the findings of a statistical investigation or probability activity undertaken by others.
• Probability
  • Investigate simple situations that involve elements of chance by comparing experimental results with expectations from models of all the outcomes, acknowledging that samples vary.

*Undertake a school rubbish audit to ascertain the contents - display and discuss data in varying formats
*Harvest potatoes, record numbers and weight and make generalisations based on the results

School Goals

• Enjoy and incorporate mathematical processes in everyday life
• Develop understandings in the areas of statistics
• Communicate and present mathematical ideas, clearly and accurately

Resources:FIO series - Sustainability, Using resources and Energy

English - Keeping ourselves healthy and safe

Goals:

• Read, analyse, understand and critically think about messages and purposes of information presented
  • Using internet, books and teaching resources to find out the about 5+ a day servings message
• Develop skills of effectively arranging, presenting and displaying visual and written information in a variety of formats
  • Take notes and convert technical information into health symbols to accompany fruit and vegetable colours
• Express ideas clearly and with confidence and use appropriate language to do so
  • Write a recipe using 5+ servings and create a still life poster with 5+ health message symbols

Write and record health messages to be played on the radio   

Own inquiry

• Plan and work on a topic of own choice
  • Incorporate inquiry process
    • Share with peers

The Arts

• Develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists’ works.
  • Observe and discuss still life portraits from various artists using fruit and vegetable themes
• Describe the ideas their own and others’ objects and images communicate.
  • Connect to health theme of 5+ a day
• Learn about and use a range of art making media and materials.
  • Organise digital pictures of fruit and vegetables to create pencil sketches, large crayon pictures and paintings limited by food colours
• Experiment with pencils, crayons and paint
  • Create still life portraits of coloured fruits/vegies that incorporate health symbols

See health goals

Health and PE

Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme - KOS

Personal Health and Physical Development

• Identify factors that affect personal, physical, social, and emotional growth and develop skills to manage changes.
• Identify risks and their causes and describe safe practices to manage these.
• Take responsibility for own health needs with food and keeping safe around others
• Know about their own bodies and how to care for them with healthy food choices

Malcolm Riley’s dietary guidelines for sustainability include the following.

• Enjoy eating with other people
• Don’t eat or drink too much
• Think about the kind of food you eat
  • Know how your food is produced and where it comes from
• Make food choices that are good for the environment
  • Enjoy minimally processed food that doesn’t need cooking
  • Grow some of your own food
  • Buy locally produced food in season
• Think about how you get your food
  • Buy food that uses minimal packaging – use long lasting carrier bags
  • Optimise your physical activity when doing the shopping.

• Students to research healthy food, fruit and vegetable colours and technical words.
  • Create symbols that define technical words
    • Use still life images of fruit and vegetables to create own version
      • To include food colour group, symbols and message about healthy colour eating

Maori

Goals

• Develop an awareness and knowledge of Maori culture, through music and games
  • Matariki celebrations, waiata, stick games and creating harakeke putiputi
    • E Papa Waiari, Haere Mai