H2O, Where Does it Go?

This term we are investigating a unit entitled “H2O, where does it go?”. With the students we plan to explore water and it’s properties, share knowledge about where water can by found and how we like to enjoy it and investigate why water is precious and how we can conserve it.
Each classroom has a “water watcher bag” for students to take home for the weekend to record details about water in their home. You can help you child with this project on their weekend by helping them count and record information, take photos, draw pictures or write stories. We will use this information as part of our maths program in class. All instructions will come with the bag and each child will have an opportunity to take it home once during a semester.
To help us with our work we are asking parents to collect
*any square jars (eg: olive oil bottles) and their lids
*green, grey, blue, white or clear plastic shopping bags
*interesting natural items from visits to the beach
During the term we also plan to take a number of excursions to different water environments. Whilst details for all of them are still to be confirmed we do know that we will need a strong parent presence to assist us with supervision and would welcome any offers of assistance. Please note however that we cannot take younger siblings with us on trips. We plan excursions on different days in order to allow all children to participate in one. On some excursions, children who do not attend on the scheduled day can join us at the venue with a supervising adult however some venues do not allow extra numbers and are only available for children attending on that day. Whilst we do do our best to spread these activities across days we often restricted by availability of venues or programmes.