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My body, heart and mind |
Self- awareness |
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Learn about the importance of eye contact and how to use it. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Self- awareness |
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Learn the importance of all our subsistence needs being met to be healthy - food, water, shelter, air. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Self-expression through body, heart and mind |
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Practice self-reflection through different art forms eg. song, theatre, drawing. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Self-expression through body, heart and mind |
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Choose a word that helps instead of hurts eg. "I feel angry because..." instead of "I hate you..." |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Experience sleeping in a shelter made by themselves from local natural materials and compare it with living indoors. |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Use ropes and strings to tie knots to build something (such as a shelter). |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Find out traditional ways peoples in different places showed gratitude for warmth and shelter; what kinds of blessings did they have? Create a blessing ceremony for a fairy home or a real home based on things that you learn about those traditions. |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Learn that people in different parts of the world design their homes and buildings to best suit the materials they have and their climate. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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See, touch and smell different soils with different textures (can you work out what texture you have?): sand, silt, clay, and loam. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Dig a hole to see the different layers of soil, their colour and depth (topsoil, subsoil, bedrock). |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Observe how different soils affect the plants which grow there - their health as well as the species composition. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Do a soil touch test i.e. rub soil between your fingers - does it have big grains like sand or minuscule grains like clay, or is it soapy like silt? Roll soil into a sausage, can it stay like that (indicating clay)? Try with different soils. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Test soil to find out if it's acidic or alkaline. Use a pH kit and/or do a home test e.g. add 2 spoonfuls of soil to a jar, add vinegar, does it react? If so you have alkaline soil. Add 2 spoonfuls of soil to another jar, add distilled water and baking soda - does it fizz? If so you have acidic soil. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Do a soil jar test to find out what percentage is sand, silt and/or clay. Compare soil from different places. Compare with results from soil touch test. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Sing a song about soil textures (e.g. "There's three different types of mineral in soil"). |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Find out about acidity and alkalinity in soil, how it affects plants that grow there, and how plants affect the pH of the soil (e.g. conifers make it more acidic). |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Compare the different properties of sand and clay (e.g. how much water and air it holds, what happens when you stand on it, which holds more nutrients etc.). |
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Air |
Stars, Sun, Moon, Planets |
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Observe the path of the sun at different times of the year and draw a plan showing the height (or angle) of it. |
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Air |
Stars, Sun, Moon, Planets |
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Learn how to tell the difference between a star and a planet in the night sky by using the song 'twinkle twinkle little star' as stars twinkle and planets do not |
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Air |
Stars, Sun, Moon, Planets |
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Make a stop-motion movie of the motion of the sun by taking photos from the same place regularly throughout the day. Do this in June and in December to compare. |
