Year 1- Unit 4 newsletter

Our central idea is:

Many products go through a process of change before they are consumed or used

Our lines of inquiry are:

• Where products come from
• Changes products go through
• Distribution of products

This unit inquires into the connections, change, and responsibility involved in making a product. By the end of this unit, we hope that the children will demonstrate their inquirer and thinking skills. The unit gives the children the opportunity to learn about the different processes involved in the creation of everyday items. They will be making links by retelling stories, writing instructional texts, map making and art activities.

The students visited the Zen Organic Farm before the Easter holidays to start them thinking about where different products come from and the different processes they go through to get to the consumer. It developed their understanding of the farm-to-table process.

After the Easter holidays, students will also be taking part in an upcycling workshop to deepen their understanding of the importance of recycling and reusing resources. Redress workshop dates:

1C and 1MB- April 18th

1L, 1K and 1F- April 19th

Please send in an old t-shirt for upcycling on Monday 17th April in preparation for our workshops so that we can check everyone has one and can take part in the Redress workshop. Please note that these old t-shirts will be cut and transformed into something new as part of our process inquiry.

Below you will find out more about this unit's transdisciplinary links:

During this unit, we will be learning to write stories using story maps. We will be reading the traditional stories of The Gingerbread Man and The Little Red Hen. We will be learning the process of these stories through a Talk for Writing approach, where we will learn to imitate, innovate and invent our own versions. The children will also be learning to write to instruct and inform by creating 'How to' guides.

Writing outcomes:

• Generate own ideas for writing

• Explore different writing structures

• Compose simple sentences

Reading outcomes:

• Recall main ideas and supporting details when retelling text

• Read high-frequency words

• Recognise grapheme-phoneme correspondence of current diagraphs

• Read at an age-appropriate level

Speaking and Listening outcomes:

• Talk about their writing, pictures and models

Viewing and Presenting outcomes:

•Create a simple multimodal text

This unit lends itself well to exploring measurement (money) and directional and positional language as well as continuing to learn about number. Students will create a final product that will be ‘sold’ to fellow students. The children will learn how to pay for items and represent the product data in various forms.

Measure outcomes:

• Estimate, compare, describe and measure the length, mass and capacity of objects using non -standard units
  

Number outcomes:

• Recognise, model, read and order numbers to 100

• Apply place value to partition and rename two-digit numbers

• Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using concrete materials

• Share collections into equal parts

Position and direction outcomes:

• Describe position in a practical context.

Data handling outcomes:

• Interpret data by comparing quantities for example, more, fewer, less than, greater than