Finding out

 Post the spring break, we continued with our journey of  inquiry into conflict and resolution. We began by sharing our holiday conflict journal. Some of us had just one entry in our journal as we had managed not to have any conflict at home during the holidays. Bravo!!!

We played a small game to feel how it feels when people are involved in a conflict.

Post the game we understood how angry ...frustrated....agitated we felt while we were pushing against each other. As soon as they stopped pushing they felt relieved....happy and relaxed.

We watched the story of Seven blind mice to understand perspective.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3vMvfAdW88

We learnt that people see things differently. It depends on your age, your experiences whether you are sick, happy or sad, who you hang out with etc.To further understand that there is no right or wrong on how people see things we looked at optical illusions.

We concluded, that to reach an understanding we must understand that different people see things differently.

After reaching this understanding we reflected on our holiday journals and tried to think of the conflicts from the perceptive of the other person involved .

     

We role played different situations to see and understand different perspectives in a conflict. Here is a glimpse of one -

We used the bus stop strategy and went around different stations to write/draw what we thought the words:

- Communicate

- Negotiate

- Mediate

- Arbitrate and 

- Litigate meant

We learnt that these are strategies to resolve conflicts.

We have started working on building a conflict corner for our class. This corner will remind us of all the strategies and  steps we should take when in a conflict.

Stay tuned!!!!

During fun Math time, we explored the concept of time through different activities.

Sharing the Planet

This week we started out new unit under the theme -  Sharing the Planet.  We expressed our understanding of the theme by creating a picture that represented our understanding.

We began with thinking of situations that make us angry and how we react in our anger.

We then brainstormed about what we thought a conflict is and what are the different reasons that give rise to conflicts.

We took a step further and associated conflict with a color we thought it best represented.

Unfolding the central idea - Reaching a resolution during periods or moments of conflict is influenced by the actions and reactions of all involved.

In Math, we are learning about reading time on the analogue clock to the nearest minute.

During fun Math, we worked on our multiplication skills. We made our own multiplication number charts and played different brain teasers to test our  multiplication skills.

Trying to get 5 in a row

Multiplication brainteasers

Making our own multiplication grid

Competing with time to complete the  multiplication grid.

So proud of my students. Some of us achieved the goal we set out last week of reading 10 books by Dr Seuss. Those of us who didn't achieve the goal .... are striving to get there.

Some of us went further and got so inspired by Dr Seuss that we took action on our learning. 

Mathastic Fantatstic .....Dr Seuss week

Finally, it was time to put all the hard work of last week to test. Mathastic was a great great success.

Get a  sneak peek into the Mathastic - 

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This week we celebrated Dr Seuss week.  Events like these encourage children to enjoy new authors and books. As part of the celebration, we read books written by Dr Seuss, researched about him, watched a movie based on one of his books - The Lorax, we painted and created a display and went around taking a survey asking what would they do if they had duck feet. QUACK  >> QUACK 

AND A SURPRISE VISIT FROM.......... 

                                                                                                   http://www.netanimations.net/Hands-moving-fingers-pointing-animated-clip-art.htm

 Painting the glass window to make our class display of Dr Seuss.

We had the Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2 visit us....

                                                                                                                                 https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/570733/25

Thank you Ms. Cecilia, Ms. Disha and Ms. Jessica for arranging these surprise guests. We truly enjoyed it.

Inspired by some of Dr Suess quotes, Grade 3 has set a goal -----

" The goal of grade 3 ....is to read whenever they are free......

Summing up the unit

Over the past week, we have been working on organizing a math quiz for Grades 4 and 5 as our summative task to showcase our understanding of the central idea - In a workplace people share responsibility towards a common purpose.

We began with brainstorming on what were the things that would be required to be done to put the quiz together. We then moved on to making a timetable for ourselves to plan how we would go along doing the same. We discussed and distributed jobs among ourselves and decided who would be responsible for what.

We did all that was required to put together the quiz starting from writing a permission letter to Ms. Pramila, asking her permission to host the quiz to writing an email to Ms. Ramanpreet with the list of resources. We then moved on to research and putting together the questions that we would ask at the quiz. We finally ended our preparations with sending out invites to all the teachers and students of Grade 4 & 5 to participate in the quiz.

Stay tuned for ...........

In Math, we worked on fractions and their decimal representation. During fun Math, we explored 3 D shapes, fractions, word problems and calculations using the four operations.

We had rounds of Dumcharades where we had to enact action words and our friends had to guess them.

We read books and then reflected on the same answering the Yes and NO questions and sorting the question cards accordingly.

Week 24

We began this week by presenting the information we collected from the interviews last week through a report. 

We also went around interviewing teachers in the PYP to find out what were the responsibilities they shared and how they help to contribute achieve the school goal.

On our field trip to the Cathedral school library, we saw a different way a school library can be organised. We learnt how Ms. Malti had organised the library as per the needs of their school. We also made her a card to show our appreciation for welcoming us to her library and patiently answering all our young interviewers. Thank you to Ms. Nirmala for organizing this lovely leaning experience for us.

We reflected on our filed trip through a Venn diagram. We compared the Cathedral library with our own school library.

                         This week in Math, we learnt how to compare fractions using a number line.

We also had a fun math session, where through centres we reviewed our addition and place value skills.

This week,  Arshia Sattar an Indian author came to visit our school. She read us an excerpt from one of her books. We were so engrossed in her story that time just flew by.......and made us think what would we do if Hanuman came and sat on the bed next to us????

Grade 4 invited us to see their lovely inventions of simple machines. It was a lot of fun. Thank you Garde 4 for sharing your inventions with us.