Week of December 3rd-8th: Only 2 more weeks remaining in the term!!!!
Some Reminders:
AIS Talent Show will be Thursday, December 20th!
AIS Talent Show will be Thursday, December 20th!
The last day to sign up for the talent show is Wednesday, December 12th!
Send your song or link to Ms. Dana ASAP.
We had a great week as we make the easy transition between our transdisciplinary themes of Sharing the Planet to How We Organize Ourselves. The students are still working on their Public Service Announcement video to spread the word of being open-minded, principled inquirers. To date, we have recorded 3 videos, and the students are reflecting and thinking about how to make their point more concise so that everyone who watches can question their own views and possibly change their perspective of how they think or treat people.
The students have been taking ownership of their Seesaw portfolio by reflecting on activities from class to improve their work.
Edited from the longer video: Being Open-Minded Can Change the World
Edited from the longer video: It Starts from Us
Earlier this week, students reflected on the unit, making a list of ALL the people/groups they (independently) inquired into. Each student has automatically connected our learner profile attributes to these people, making mention of those who exemplified those attributes as well as those who, conversely, needed more of a given learner profile attribute. It was actually the students' idea to label a learner profile "puzzle" with all the lessons they learned during this unit.
This week in English we analyzed the story, "Terrible Things" by Eve Bunting.
Also this week in English, we are worked on a list of vocabulary words that will be helpful for our new unit as well as in their own reading: represent defend organized evidence except confirm obvious previous detail threaten
With these words, we have looked into how their prefixes and suffixes can help us learn their meaning as well as how they are used in context.
On Seesaw this week, I shared three videos with the students from the YouTube page: Kids Meet...
The students had the choice to watch the video from a refugee, Holocaust survivor, or a survivor of the Japanese American Internment Camp. Overwhelmingly, the students chose to watch and comment on all three videos. Here is an example of some of their comments:
Students also posted their individual Code of Ethics:
On Friday the students volunteered their time to learn a skill that G4 students shared with them.
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| Aleyna taught Tasneem Turkish. |
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| Momiru taught Emre how to improve his play in Clash Royale. |
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| Eri taught Akito Korean. |
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| Chiharu shares her knowledge of Cookie Run (game) with Kaku. |
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| Fatima teaches Sally how to write in cursive. |
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| Taira explains to June how to make a YouTube video. |
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