Kindergarten are enjoying their unit of inquiry into living things. The Central Idea is, ‘Human choices may impact living things and their habitats’.

To start the unit, the boys inquired into living and non-living things. They enjoyed going on a living and non-living thing hunt around the school and recorded their findings using the camera and ‘Photo Mess’ app on their iPads.

The boys worked hard in small groups to create polar, desert, rainforest and ocean habitats inside the Kindy classroom. It was wonderful to observe the boys working collaboratively and sharing their fantastic thinking with each other.

We then observed the local habitat surrounding our school. We created a data chart to record our observations of the living things we spotted and their habitats. This then led to tremendous discussions about the ways that we can care for these animals. It was fantastic to see boys keenly picking up plastic wrappers on the playground to prevent birds from eating them and to stop the plastic potentially blowing into the storm water drain and making its way into local waterways.

Our excursion to Calmsley Hill City Farm was a huge hit and supported our line of inquiry into caring for living things and the connection between animals and humans.  The boys enjoyed patting baby farm animals, milking a cow, watching the sheep dogs round up sheep and seeing a sheep being shorn. One of the highlights of the day was the tractor ride. The boys loved going over all the bumps!

Belinda Smallhorn – Kindergarten Teacher