KG2 Integrated Learning · Term 3, Week 8

Types of Soil and Gardening

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Curriculum details

Strand
All Around Us (Strand 6)
Sub-strand
Types of Soil and Gardening (6.7)
Content standard
K2.6.7.1 - Demonstrate understanding of types of soil we find around us and which one helps plant to grow well.
Indicator
K2.6.7.1.2 - Participate actively in the teacher-read-aloud of the big book which relates to the theme, count words in a sentence and answer inferential questions on the text.
Suggested placement
Term 3, Week 8 (Week 32 of the year)

Term is the curriculum's own; the week within it is our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order. Follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference
Kindergarten Curriculum (KG1 and KG2), 2019, p. 180

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Take learners through before reading activities to activate pupils' previous knowledge on the theme. Read aloud the informational text about different types of soil while pointing to words in a sentence. Learners answer factual and inference questions on the text. Let learners find answers to which type of soil we use for farming and why.? Ask learners to find the many other uses of sand and clay soil? Write some sentences, cut them up and have learners count the words in the cut-up sentences and rearrange them to form sentences.