Today we started the filming process with some of the students. They were very excited! After drafting their drawings, recording their explanation on Photobooth and practicing on a whiteboard, they were more than ready to get started. Practice makes perfect Seowon practices her drawing on a smaller whiteboard. She also thought about what title she…
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…
To practice oral presentation skills, I introduced my grade fives to ‘5 frame flickr storytelling’: See FLICKR website: We played the game a few times, using different prompts and different storytelling arrangements. Some students told the whole story themselves, while others told the story in 5 parts, each person narrating one picture. For homework,…
Using our activity from today, create your own 5 card flickr story to share in class tomorrow! See website from today: http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157632684100074/ Use your Exhibition simple machine as part of the story. You can involve people in your house (nanny, brother, sister, parents, dog etc) or toys to help make your photos interesting. Post…
Helping EAL students make personal connections to simple machines and how they affect their lives. Session 1: Unpacking Impact The past 2 weeks students have moved from the finding out phase to the sorting out phase of the Inquiry Cycle. The first two key concepts covered were FORM and FUNCTION. This week students were expected…
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…
First Table Talk Topic ~ Jan 29 2013 Today Grade 5 EALs started ‘Table Talks’ which encourage speaking & listening skills. Students are responsible for 3 cubes which they used to contribute to the conversation. We started out discussing what helps us feel ‘safe’ in conversations. Students brainstormed what helps them feel confident when they…
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…
THE GREAT DEBATE Understanding the Social Purpose of Debating As language learners, EAL students develop and practice oral language skills though a variety of ways, both in the classroom and on the playground. However, many students still require careful scaffolding and meaningful real-life experiences to apply these skills in a supportive environment. During…
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