Sunday, 17 January 2016

Welcoming 2016 by understanding how the world works!!

We started the new year by setting a resolution for ourselves for the upcoming year

We set out to understand how the world works in complete darkness


Through our 4th Unit of Inquiry we set out to inquire into - How light creates shadows and reflections

Tuning in

Day 1:We began by experiencing about how helpless we are without light




Brainstorming about what are the different sources of light

Sorting these ideas into natural and man made sources of light


Day 2:  Something from home - We brought things from back home that are sources of light.

Exploring shadows

Thinking deeper to find out what we already knew about shadows

Day 3: Unfolding the main idea
We tried to make sense of the cut up central idea and put them in a sentence that made sense to us


Making our silhouettes

Learning the steps for conducting an experiment and learning terms like aim. hypothesis, method,   conclusion, materials etc


Understanding  transparent, translucent and opaque objects through exploration.

Experimenting with mixing colored light to understand the white color of light



 In language we are learning about poetry. We began by reading different kinds of poems and identifying the key features of poetry.




Using the acrostic poem on Shadow by Elaine Magliaro we learnt tools like about alliteration and rhyme in poems


Inspired by this poem we wrote an acrostic poem on ourselves - Grade 3


Our individual name acrostic poems on our silhouettes.


As part of our journey as budding poets , we have made our own poem book. This book will help us keep together all the tools that we learn,  that help  make a good poem and our very own poem collection.


We learnt the steps a good poet goes through to write an interesting poem. 


Take a peek into a couple of our rhyming poems  we wrote using the writing process.-


Stay tuned for more.....

Budding poets sharing their poems with our friends.


Learning about another tool in poetry - Simile

Coming soon ..................our very own poem cafe!!!


In Math, we have been sharpening our multiplication skills. Learning out times tables till 12 by the end of January is the aim we have set out together as a class and see if we can become stars at multiplying.
Stars at multiplying

B.U.I.L.D. time


What better way to start the new year than with some fun and games. The 3rd Annual sports day of EIS.



Watch the rocking dance performance by grades 2 and 3 as part of the opening ceremony-

Our yoga performance


Fun time at the stations


On your marks get set go......

Sunday, 20 December 2015

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

This week we wrapped up our 3rd Unit of Inquiry. We began by comparing the Greek, Egyptian and the Indus valley civilizations with each other. We found many similarities between them.

To understand the implications of the ancient civilizations on the modern era we compared the past with the present.


We went on an imaginary tour to one of the civilizations and wrote our experience down in our diaries.

In Math, we wrapped our area and perimeter concept by making our name banners. First we used the square centimeter graph paper to write out our names. Next, we found out he area and perimeter of each letter and added those together to find the area and perimeter of our entire name.





We had a surprise clay modelling session. Truly enticing to see the mud mold into so many interesting things.



We had our last music assembly with Ms. Amanda.

We also grooved to some songs with Ms. Abigail.



A beautiful end to the week with our Christmas celebrations.    
      
 Thank you Grade 1 for that lovely performance.


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Friday, 11 December 2015

Making conclusions

This week we finally wrapped up or projects on the civilizations.

Adding the final touches.....



Presenting to our classmates and answering questions to clear their doubts or inquiries.

Moving on we compared the three civilizations to see what were the connections between them, the changes or developments each went through.
Stay tuned to see what we end up discovering about them.

We completed our diary entry on the field trip to the museum.

In Math, we are learning about perimeter and area. We began by creating polygons with jodo straws. We measured and recorded the lengths, then drew the shapes and added up the sides to get the perimeter.

Following up, we used the geoboards to create shapes with different perimeters.

Measuring the perimeter of floor polygons, recording them in our Math notebooks with the diagram of the shape. 

Once we were confident with perimeter we moved to understanding about area.
We used math cubes to create closed shapes. This helped us understand the notion of 'square units' as we calculated the total number of blocks or area of our shapes.

Stay tuned to see how we apply our knowledge of perimeter and area next week!!

During reading groups this week, we continued with our literature circles.

We worked on our module of 'Search Shark' in Common Sense Media to strengthen our understanding of choosing effective words for searching online.





Sunday, 6 December 2015

Going further

This week we have been busy thinking about how to organise and present the information we have been collecting over the past week. Each group has been a thinker and come up with different ideas for presenting about their civilization.








Enthusiasm was at its peek.Finished projects coming up soon!!!!!!

We continued to read the book - Diary of Tutankhamun. We wrote our very own first diary entry to talk about our field trip. 

In Math, we understood the properties of different 3D shapes.


We worked on our assessment of 2D and 3D shapes. We had to create a shape box where we had to cutout 2D shape of our choice an then build a 3D version of the same using any craft materials. It was challenging and made us reflect on the knowledge we had gained over the past few weeks.



During our reading circles, we continued to work with literature circles. We read a book and got assigned different jobs.