Week 3, Term 3

“The ELC told us what to do!” - Year 3 Student

Last term, whilst exploring in the school, we noticed in the Junior School foyer a recycling tree. We were

very curious about the learning that was occurring the Junior School. This investigation led us to inviting the Year

3 students to our morning meeting on Tuesday. During the meeting it was an opportunity for the children to revisit

and share all their knowledge about recycling. We learnt from the Year 3’s that soft plastics can also be recycled

and turned into furniture. We explained to the Year 3’s how, in the ELC, we work hard to reduce, reuse and

recycle.

What different bins do we use in the ELC to put our waste in?

Alex: A worm bin.

What do we put in the worm bin?

Thomas: Fruit skins

Do we put orange peels in the worm bin?

Gigi: No because the worm doesn’t like it.

What recycling occurs at St Leonards College?

Year 3 student: The red bucket is for soft plastic. Soft plastic can be squashed down.

Year 3 student: It can’t have any silver in it.

Why can’t foiled products go it?

Year 3 student: They cant be recycled.

Mrs. Hughes explained that a recycling centre is called MRF (pronounced Murf - Material Recovery

Facility) and that we have one in Heidelberg. Both classes shared the importance of recycling and

expressed their understanding of what would happen if we didn’t recycle.

Sophia (Year 3 student): The world would be rubbish.

Felix: The rubbish might come in to our house.

VEYLF Learning Outcome

Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities:

celebrate and share their contributions and achieve-ments with others.

Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect:

reflect on their actions and consider consequences for others.

Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment:

show growing appreciation and care for natural and constructed environments

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Week 3, Term 3

“We can reuse, reduce and recycle.” - Gigi

Last term we noticed that there has been a reduction in the wrappers in our lunchboxes. During our conversation

Gigi said that “we can reuse, reduce and recycle.” We asked the children what it meant to reuse, Gigi said that

“reuse means you put the rubbish in the right place. You use it again.” We began to brainstorm how we could

reuse the packaging from our lunchbox waste.

Harper: I’m making it into a little jewellery box to put all my secrets in.

William: A boat.

Gigi: We can use it in the sandpit.

Aiden : A bus.

Clara: Maybe we can turn other things into different shapes.

Taj: Buses need windows.

This inquiry led us to reusing our packaging to items to build and construct and following our visit from the Year 3s

on Tuesday we began to creating.

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

I want to build a garbage truck.—Henry

I made an eye looker. I can see all the colours up there (directing towards the dream catcher). It is so, so beautiful.—Taj

VEYLF Learning Outcome

Children transfer and adapt what they have learnt from one context to another:

engage with and co-construct learning. Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media:

use the creative arts, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, drama, dance, movement, music and story-telling, to express ideas and make meaning.

Week 3, Term 3

During the week we have been continuing our investigation into shadows. With Mrs. Zachest on

Monday we added extra detail and depth to our shadow puppets using the cellophane to explore how the

light transfers through to make colour. We also explored when we manipulate our shadow puppets we can

create different effects such as making it bigger and smaller. These investigations link with our new PYP

unit of inquiry which is “How we are in time and place.” Within this unit our central idea is “exploring

through play we come to new understandings.”

Monday, 27 July 2015

Week 3, Term 3

Thursday, 30 July 2015

“I touched my shadow.” -Alex

How do you know its your shadow?

Alex: I touched my shadow.

Henry: I found a shadow.

Evren: I’m a big shadow.

Taj: I found my shadow. I can see my finger on it.

Felix: I want to get away from my shadow. I was running super fast but I couldn't get away.

Taj: I ran away from my shadows but it catched me.

Sean, yesterday you made your puppets’ shadow get bigger. How did it get bigger?

Sean: On the light. It was scary because it was so big.

Henry: We don’t need to run away from our shadows. Its like a ghost.

Does your shadow have a face?

Gigi: I catched my shadow on the tree.

What do you need to make a shadow?

Isobel: There is light and you make a shadow.

Evren: If there is dark we can’t make a shadow.

Abbey: The sun.

Henry: A sun comes out in the day and the moon comes out in the night time.

Can you have a shadow in the night time?

Isobel: It disappears in the night time.

Abbey: After the night time the sun comes out. When the sun comes out it makes a shadow.

Thomas: When its night time I saw some of my shadows at might time.

What helped make the shadow?

Thomas: A police car.

What part of the police car?

Thomas: The lights.

Alex: If you put a torch you can make a shadow.

VEYLF Learning Outcome

Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity:

use play to investigate, imagine and explore ideas

participate in a variety of rich and meaningful inquiry-based experiences

Arabella and Gigi saw

themselves in the glass-

Is this called a shadow?