Week 3: April 23-26

Another action-packed week here at Abroad International School!  Thank you to everyone who was able to join our Family Picnic on Saturday.  Students have been talking about it all week.  We have expanded our exploration of how the body and mind work this week as well as a followup on current events that we began investigating last week.   Here are some of the things we've been up to:

Unit of Inquiry (UoI)
Brains!  Students have been making a map of the brain and analyzing the regions found therein.  We are breaking down the different parts of the brain and exploring what each part does: memory, motor control, hearing, vision, etc.  Next week we will be expanding on this and going into more depth about mental health.

Our human body art from last week was so popular with both teachers and students from other classes that Grade 5 did a special teaching session for Grade 3.  They taught the younger students about the different areas of the human body that they weren't likely to know and then gave the a trivia session at the end of their lesson.  It was exciting to see the kids embrace their role as teachers!

English
Following student interest in current events, we have made videos of students in the role of news reporters and experts.  Students have combined their research with acting skills to make an easy to understand record of the fire at Notre Dame and the first photograph of a black hole.  Videos will be viewed by all primary kids so that they can learn with along with Grade 5.

I am including pictures of our work with the human body and English video preparations in addition to some highlights from the Family Picnic below.  As there seems to be a few problems with uploading videos on the Blog at the moment, I will send a link through email of our news reports.

Happy Golden Week everyone and see you again soon!!!

Week 2: April 15-20

We had a busy week learning about different parts of the human body and reviewing important current events.  Here are some of the things we've been doing:

Unit of Inquiry (UoI)

Human body!  Students traced themselves and made a life-size human body.  They included all the organs and wrote facts about each one.  Caught up in what they were doing, students included extra details such as examples of bones from the skeletal system or lymph vessels from the lymphatic system.  They wanted to add as much information as they could!  We had a lot of fun creating our humans and learned a lot along the way.

English

Current events and communication.   We have been talking about the different methods of communication and applying it to some issues in the news.  Some breakthrough technology has enabled scientists to take the first photograph of a black hole using satellites.  Students are also discussing and researching the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.  Videos, articles, internet, and word of mouth are just a few methods of communicating news and information across the world.

Here are some pictures from class last week.  More to come soon!

Tracing our human bodies

Everyone hard at work

Researching Notre Dame

Researching black holes