Emily & Erin pave the way for ASL in 4J! This week we were lucky to have a special presentation by Emily & Erin on ASL (American Sign Language). Since our current Unit of Inquiry How We Express Ourselves focuses on communication and targeting specific audiences, these 2 students took action to share their learning…
We’ve now had a week’s buffer to think and reflect on our Grade 5 Exhibition How the World Works. What a journey it was! It seems miles away now that students and teachers have had a week’s holiday to ‘decompress’ from the long but rewarding journey! Some Challenges in review… This was definitely a challenging…
MYP pair up with PYP for Literacy Week! To celebrate literacy across the school we hosted a collapse day for students in grades 1-9. Classes were ‘buddied’ up for 2 hours after break to engage in a variety of literacy activities planned by the homeroom teachers. An example of the buddy schedule can be found…
Today Grade 5 had the privilege of visiting a local Indonesian school’s PYP Exhibition. Their theme was Sharing the Planet with a focus on how marine life is affected by water pollution. Our students came prepared with questions to ask that would help them…
Background on this G5 ‘Action’ Project This project started late October 2012. This blog post journeys our progress with the Grade 5 students…month by month. As part of our former UOI: How we Organize Ourselves myself and another homeroom teacher made contact with a local orphanage run by a Danish woman named Ingrid. We visited…
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