Last Monday K-2 students rotated through 3 hands-on investigating, design and make activities to support their work on Transport. Students made vehicles with movable wheels and tested their success on the green court during the land transport activity. They explored materials that usually sink in water can be made to float whilst making plasticine boats that could carry marble `passengers` in the Water Transport activity.
In the Air Transpoert activity students made rockets that shot with a blast with recycled plastic drink bottles, straws, blu-tack and carboard.
‘K-2‘とは、‘Kindergarten to year 2`という意味で、‘幼児部から2年生‘ということです。 通常この幼児部とは日本で言う幼稚園の年長さんに当たりますが、オーストラリアでは小学校の1年生の下に位置づけられ、子供たちは5歳になる年に入学します。 ですから、幼稚園は4歳までということです。 1年日本より早めに小学校と同じ管轄下に置かれるのです。