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Science Y2 – Parent Guide
Week 1

Truth to Teach (Source)

To establish that we are living beings who need food in order to grow properly.

You need:

1. A collection objects to be classified as either living or non-living. NB A
house-plant in good condition (!) is living, but technically a flower. Eg A dandelion once
picked is no longer living. In order to enhance the collection of living creatures you
may always refer to a bird in the playground, or an animal in the field next to the

school.

2. Labels saying living and non-living.

Way to Work (Means)

1. As a class sort the collection of items into those which are living or non- living. Asking
children to explain their choice of answers will reveal what they know about how to
define a living thing.

2. What about you? Did God make you living or non-living? God breathed into Adam. He
became a ‘living being’.

3. How can you tell you are living?
[We grow, breathe, eat, give birth after our kind, move]
What parts of your body are growing?
Does it hurt? Can you feel it happening? Does it make a noise?

Help the children appreciate the wonder of the growing process, in which our bodies
are growing "secretly and silently".

4. What happens when:

• your nails grow? (You must get them cut.)
• your hair grows? (You must get it cut.)
• your legs grow? (You need new clothes.)
• your feet grow? (You need new shoes.) Notice that our clothes do not
grow; we have to get new clothes.

5. Have you stopped growing?
Will you ever stop growing? [It is fun to imagine continuing to grow and
eventually - our heads would touch the ceiling!]
God has given our bodies built in controls, so that they know when to stop
growing upwards, although we may carry on putting on weight and growing
rounder.

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