Blog by Tag: Geography

This afternoon, we walked around Scotforth so that we can make maps and write a guide book. 
 

The change in the weather has prompted the children to talk about Winter. In Nursery we have looked at some animals who live in very cold places. We have been developing our pincer grip to feed the animals during continuous provision.

Today, we learned that maps look down at an area from above. We tried to make our own picture of the year 2 classroom using an aerial view. 
 

In geography we have been learning about the locations of different countries across the world. We have looked at the 7 continents, the 5 oceans, the Equator and the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. Today we had to read descriptions of different countries and use atlases and world maps to find out…

What an exciting day. We saw lots of different birds including flamingos. Our favourite parts of the day were the stepping stones and the splash play area. We enjoyed our journey.

Year 6 went for a local history walk today. As we walked into town, we compared a modern OS map of Lancaster with one from 1610. We walked to the Castle via Penny Street and Church Street, both of which were built more than 400 years ago (appearing on the 1610 map). We learnt how the castle has…

We were so excited all afternoon after catching a glimpse of this. The sun shone as we watched the dance on the playground and learnt a little more about China. 

We have found out things about Indonesia this week. We have learnt that this is the only area in the world where Komodo dragons live in the wild. We had a go at weaving after looking at photos of children weaving cloth.

We have had an amazing day tasting different foods from different countries. We listened to music from different countries and dressed up too. 

Jambo! Today we had a wonderful visitor - Peter - who is a wildlife photographer. He lives in Kenya and told us all about some of the animals that he has encountered there. He has zebras outside his house who eat his grass every day so he doesn’t need a lawnmower!  He told us about the mountain…

We have enjoyed travelling to Africa this afternoon. We designed African masks and Peter came in to talk about African wildlife. We had an amazing time!

It was lovely to have Isabella's mum come into school today to teach us some Chinese words and tell us the story behind the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac.  We found out that all the children in the class were either born in the year of the rooster or the year of the monkey.  We then had a go at…