Transcript The Rainforest - Kearsley West

Year 6
Kearsley West Primary School
Autumn Term 2014
Role Play
We started with a role play area
outside our classroom. Everyone
took turns to work in pairs,
completing tasks either literacy,
numeracy or science based, related
to what we had been learning
about in class.
Homework
Some even made creatures at home
to add to our displays!
Some people created their own
rainforest creatures that had
adaptations to allow them to live in
this habitat.
Branching databases
Our first lesson was all about
branching databases. We went out
onto the school field and collected
different leaves from the trees. It
was hard at first to think of
questions that would classify the
leaves but we got the hang of it in
the end.
Adaptations
 Our next task was to think
about how different animals
are adapted to their habitat.
We learnt new words such as,
brachiating, bill and primate.
Sketching
We practised our sketching skills,
we’re very proud of the results.
Logo in flowers
We had used ‘The Butterfly Lion’
as a text to support our learning
and in the story there is a part
where the image of the lion is
created by blue butterflies. We
liked the idea so much that we
thought we would have a go
ourselves, only we would create an
image of our school logo. The
white school shirt will appear in
the spring when the snowdrop
bulbs, which are currently hidden
under the soil, appear.
Maths too
Maths was a major part of our
rainforest project, with problem
solving, data handling and
measuring all being involved.
To wash or not to wash – that is the question?
When we came to learning about
micro-organisms we took all the
important facts that we had
absorbed and put them into an
information leaflet.
In the style of
David Shepherd
How good are these pictures in
the style of wildlife artist,
David Shepherd?
Skitch – on the iPad
We used an app called Skitch on
the iPad to allow us to combine
pictures and text to describe the
rainforest.
Lakeland Wildlife Oasis
Our learning was enriched by a
visit to the Lakeland Wildlife
Oasis. We were able to see, touch
and handle some of the creatures
we had been learning about, it
totally brought our learning to life.
And to finish ...
Our learning was completed by a
team activity where we were tasked
with making our own model
rainforest, it had to include a
reference to all our learning about
habitats, adaptations, variation of
species, endangered animals etc.
We learnt a lot about ourselves
through doing this activity, such as
who had strong personalities, who
was a good team player and who
was a good organiser.