This year in K1.2 our Earth Day celebrations focused around our emotional connection to the environment. All year long we have been fascinated with and committed to spending time in the natural spaces around our school and collecting pieces of it to bring inside our classroom. Last week we got the idea for a class project during our outside playtime. When we were talking to the tree and asking him to give us more leaves, a whole heap of leaves fell. This gave Maanya an idea that everyone else loved: "We need to paint leaves for the tree. It's our gift for it because he gave us so many leaves and now we'll give him something!" |
Ms. Alison saw a strong connection to appreciation here which is one of our PYP Attitudes. So we set out to collect more leaves and paint them for the tree. We worked for most of the day creating something that we could give to nature in return for all it gives to us. Finally we strung our painted leaves together and hung them in the place that we thought the tree could see it best. We continued this emergent project throughout the week even extending our painting to sticks and rocks.
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This week we participated in our very first Student-Led Conferences. This was an opportunity for us to be the leaders as we guided our parents through some of our best work and favourite activities. Thanks to all the mums and dads who came out to support us. We had a great time celebrating our learning and showing how independent we are. Here are some of our reflections:
Last week Kindergarten 1 started our swimming unit in PE. We now go to the pool every Thursday morning. Here are some photos from today's swimming lesson! For two weeks now we have been exploring a new central idea 'Stories are shared and responded to in different ways' as part of the PYP transdisciplinary theme 'How we express ourselves'. We started our inquiry by sharing and collecting our prior knowledge about stories so we could begin to understand our current knowledge as a group and think about our next steps for our learning. We spent quite a lot of time planning, practicing and preparing our stories. As she watched us, Ms. Alison noticed some common things between our stories. They all had:
Maanya, Libby and Olympia worked as a group to make a book called 'Robbers and the Bloody Castle'. The drew pictures on paper and wrote some words. Then they glued the papers together to make pages for a book and read their book to the class. Phoenix, Mana and Aarna used fabrics and a doll to tell their story about a baby who went to the beach. They expressed the story using words, actions and materials as a setting. Dillon, Elliot, Max and Adrian worked together to tell a story using the wooden house, people and furniture. They also added some fabric and foam letters to complete their story about a giant spider attacking a house. Their story was told through sounds and actions. After we demonstrated our current understandings to each other we reflected as a group and discussed two questions:
Some important ideas emerged about how stories can be real or imaginary. We also began to talk about how stories can teach us things.
For the last two weeks Elliot has been our Star Name. He was very excited as he has been waiting for his Star Name for awhile! Elliot's name gave us a chance to practice some letters we are familiar with. Our favourites are the lower case 'l' and lower case 't' which we call our 'risk-taking letters' because they reach to the sky like capital letters!
Yesterday we practiced and extended our patterning skills with a patterning workshop in our classroom. We used lots of loose parts and materials like paint and chalk to demonstrate our knowledge. During our workshop, we had a free choice of stations and materials inside and outside of our classroom. We showed a lot of independence and responsibility by remaining focused and concentrated on our patterns and respecting the space and work of our friends in the class. We also treated the materials with a lot of care. During our patterning workshop, some students volunteered to be student photographers. They took turns using one of the iPads to photograph their friends' completed patterns. Here are some of those images:
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