Greetings to you all! Temperatures continue to drop, however we also continue to enjoy beautiful cool fall weather. This week, we had a short week to work with however, we closed out unit 3 and we began a new unit on Emotions, Thoughts and Self-Expression! This unit will tie in really well with some major flagship events coming up soon, such as the Music Concert in December, and our Performance Show in March, near the end of the year.
This week, grade 1 reflected on unit 3 and all that we learned about for Sports and Games. We also began a new unit, which is all about emotions and self-expression. For this unit, we’ll also be looking forward to our Music Concert and Performance Show. We thought of potential shows and ideas that we would like to do for the show in March. This required some thinking-skills on our part, and we had to be risk-takers for the new unit.
As we prepare for our music concert the students practised their formations, singing and instrumental song. They’ve done really well so far, and I have also enjoyed watching them. This requires them to be balanced as they will be working together, and since they are using different instruments, this requires us to be balanced.
Each year, a big part of the unit 4 theme is to prepare for the annual ISN Performance Show. For this year, the grade 1 students had the agency to suggest ideas of shows that they would like to vote for, and as thinkers, they came up with some brilliant ideas. On this day, the students used their research skills to find and then select their best option. It is exciting and this will be a fun period of learning, that we are all looking forward to.
For our UOI class, we are currently studying the topic of emotions and thoughts, and mainly about how we can express ourselves using different art forms. Today we read a book about different kinds of faces, and we drew attention to our unit specified concepts, ‘Causation,’ and ‘Perspective,’ in order to give our thoughts on the different faces we saw, and what could be the possible cause for each face. The students did well in their teams for this task, and it was quite fun for us all.
This week, we continued with our creative computing classes, and the students completed their penguins last week, and they look pretty good. The students are currently working on building on boats since their creations are on an island. Its also good to see the grade 1 students use their social-skills well to help and care for each other, even in some difficult moments.
Today was such a beautiful day for us all in grade 1. The grade 1 students concluded their journey of growing morning glory plants from the beginning of the year, till the beginning of autumn. The students collaborated and used their Approaches to Learning in order to use the vines from their plants to create beautiful wreaths, that you will be able to view very soon. This was also a great chance for us to work with the eldest class in our elementary school, which made all of us feel good, and it as a great way to end the week. Special thanks to the grade 6 students, and the grade 6 Japanese Learning Facilitator.
Thank you for your support. We have already begun preparing for our Music Concert and Performance Day, which are both going to be some fun. We look forward to the next blog post, and I hope that you take care and have a nice weekend! Salute!
