5DC students taking charge of their display boards

All exhibition long, students in 5DC have been responsible for using their group's allotted space on the class' display boards to document what was current in their groups.

Examples of things that were posted:

-current questions

-group reflections

-photos

-resources

-timeables

Kicking Off the New Unit - How We Organize Ourselves

The Unfortunate Situation

You have suddenly run out of money.
Since you live in an apartment, you still need to pay rent which is $20 per month or you will be homeless.
To live, you will need to eat. Eating cheaply, one person needs only to spend $2 dollars per day.
Additionally, you have to take care of another sibling.
All you have are the few objects that you have managed to save.
You don’t know how long this situation will last, but you should plan that the situation will not change for 4 months.

How do you plan to use these objects to help you survive?
Plan it out. Use an illustration to make your plans visual.

Sofie Song - "Never judge a book by its cover"

In a study of Media in our How We Express Ourselves unit. Sofie chose to convey the message, "Don't judge the book by its cover" through a song whose lyrics were written by herself. Arifah, another 5DC student and friend of Sofie, provided the beautiful vocals for the track. 5DC is proud to have you two in our community.

 Check out the track below.

Field Trip to Fort Canning and the National Museum of Singapore

On Wednesday, 5DC and 5SB ventured out into Singapore to learn more about the early Migrants of Singapore. The sites that we visited were Fort Canning and the National Museum of Singapore.

From the trip, some old student questions were answered, but we all acknowledged that we could learn more about early Singapore.  Currently, the students have taken a question further and initiated a mini-research exercise to satiate their curiosities.  Using some old and new IT skills, they have been challenged to put their research together and collaborate using Google docs to write a paragraph about the area they are curious about.

Looking forward to sharing the fruits of early year collaboration work.

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Super Conference Leaders

A big congratulatory shout out to all the students of 5DC who participated in the student led conferences today (including those who opted to conduct it at home).  You all did a fantastic job explaining the progress you have shown through the last eight months.

Of course, this day would have been impossible without a great team of supportive parents who took time out of their busy work days and regular schedules to hear your children talk about their experiences in 5DC.

I hope that the experience was meaningful for you.  If you have seen student led conferences done in a different way, please drop me a few lines with some recommendations.

Enjoy the photos!

PYP Concepts - form, change, causation

We are using the PYP concepts of form, change and causation to learn about different landforms around the world.  Instead of teachers asking the questions about what students see, students need to ask the questions that are relevant to them.  This is a natural way of differentiating the various ability/experience/understanding levels in the class, regardless of who is who in a functional group.

Below is a sample of work that came from one of the simulations that were conducted on Thursday.

Is their a connection between students who are given the chance to ask their own questions and the development of greater independence in learning practice?

 

Back with Math

Mathematics is not all about numbers.  A diverse mathematical vocabulary allows students to verbally express what is happening in a mathematical expression.  Today, in our second day in the GEOMETRY unit, we used simple figures to challenge students to use words such as line, square, length, tall, right, below, symmetrical, etc.  It was also a challenge to have students admit that maths is FUN!

Alex, Hae Rin and Miya listen to their partners describe the figure on display so that

they can reproduce the figure in their notebooks.

Pass the Present