Unit 1: Living things

Name some living things.

Look around your classroom. Point to some things that are not alive.

Use your eyes to look at the picture. What can you see?

Point to a plant.

Point to an animal in the picture.

Point to what is non-living in the picture.

What living things can we find?

Go outside to look for living things.

Try to find four living things.

Draw and photograph some living things.

What is the largest living thing you can find?

What is the smallest living thing you can find?

Living or non-living?

Zara is putting things into two groups.

Where should she put the toy?

What other things could she put in the groups?

Look at the non-living things.

Point to something that used to be alive.

Point to some things that have never been alive.

Make a group of living things and a group of non-living things.

Use things from your classroom.

How do you know which things are alive?

You know that plants are living.

What parts of plants have you seen?

Tell a friend about some parts of plants.

Finding plant parts

Plants have many parts.

Look carefully at the plant in the drawing.

What do you see or observe?

Point to a leaf, a flower, the stem and the roots.

Making a model plant

Sofia can tell us what the parts do.

Make a model of a plant with these parts.

Say what each part is for.

Observing plant parts

Observe a plant.

Look carefully at the plant parts.

Do not eat plants you find and wash your hands after touching any plants.

Name the plant parts.

Observe three different plants.

Look at the plant parts.

Draw them.

Do they all look the same?

Are they similar or different?

Play 'What am I?' with a friend.

Use the words leaf, stem, flower, root.

Say what each is for.

Where do you see plants?