Observation Task 10: Integrated subject areas

Focus: Integration
Ask your MST which e.g. maths and/or science concepts the children are
learning at the moment. Find out how she helps them to understand these
ideas. Ask about how language is part of this learning.
If you can, get a sample of any documentation of the science or mats
curriculum you can add this to your TP portfolio. It will give you an idea of
the kind of concepts children at this level can understand and also the
kind of activities they are engaged in.
For example:
Concept

Numbers

addition

Melts or does not

melt

Weather

Activity
learners learning how
to write a number 3
and they write and
read the number with
their teacher
learners adding
numbers and writing
equations
The student learning
which things melts in
water or not melt and
the teacher saw them
if the sugar and salt
melts in the water or
not.

Language

Number 3

plus equals

Teacher ask about

Sunny
the weather every
Cloudy
day and they drawing Rainy
about the weather.

Melts
not melt