Week September 21-24, 2015
Unit of
Inquiry, Media:
Summative assessment was conducted this week and the students came up with
different media to create an awareness about a social issue or social cause. Posted a Flip-snack book about the summative assessments on the blog.Students completed their reflection about the unit.
Math: Students took a formative
assessment on divisibility rules , completed BODMAS,checked their understanding
through a rotational differentiated learning engagements and also suggested them to create puzzles using BODMAS for the Math corner.
English: Students worked on an essay about the
impact of media on the people and presented their understandings in the form of
advantages and disadvantages of Media and also used lot of facts and figures to
support their understanding.
WEEK 4-SEPT
14-18,2015
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Subject
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Purpose
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UOI:
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Sharing the surveys conducted to understand the
impact on people.
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Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of
media through classroom discussion.
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To understand the impact of media on people
and how it effects their discussion.
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English:
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Write for a range of
purposes, both creative and informative, using different types of structures
and styles according to the purpose of the writing.
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View and critically
analyse a range of visual texts, communicating understanding through oral,
written and visual media
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Math:
Finding Prime numbers on a 100 grid suing
the multiplication tables, students will work in centers using Ipads, papers
and online activities.
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Understanding divisibility,prime numbers and BODMAS
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WEEK 3-AUG
31-SEPT 4,2015
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Subject
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Purpose
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UOI:
· Analyzing newspaper articles
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Advantages and disadvantages of media –Print
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Understanding the similarities and differences of
types of media.
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Formative assessment:
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Types of media and their roles-Per assessment
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Analyse how society can influence our concept of
self-worth (for example, through the media and advertising)
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Explore how the media present information
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Be able to explain the difference between right
and wrong, and apply these values to different situations.
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English:
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Report writing
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Analysing ads as per the different types of
persuaion techniques:
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Pathos,logos and Ethos
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Fins out the meanings of the above terms, watch
ads and make personal connect.
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Write for a range of
purposes, both creative and informative, using different types of structures
and styles according to the purpose
of the writing.
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View and critically
analyse a range of visual texts, communicating understanding through oral,
written and visual media
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Math:
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Understanding patterns through Tessellations and
symmetry.
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Large numbers multiplication
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Formative assessment: Tessellations conducted.
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Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup large
numbers to assist calculations and solve problems
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Identify geometric
patterns, through investigation using concrete materials or drawings, and
represent them numerically
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WEEK 4-SEPT
7-11,2015
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Subject
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Purpose
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UOI:
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Finding out about impact of media on people using
websites and interviews.
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Guest lecture by Nikhil Gulati-Comic maker to
understand how media can be made powerful and effective using images and language.
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To understand the impact of media on people
and how it effects their decision.
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Different steps taken by people to make media
more effective.
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English:
· Analyzing videos as per persuasion
techniques-Pathos, logos and Ethos.
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To create advertisements using persuasion techniques.
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Report writing on the guest lecture-Home work
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Write for a range of
purposes, both creative and informative, using different types of structures
and styles according to the purpose of the writing.
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View and critically
analyse a range of visual texts, communicating understanding through oral,
written and visual media
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Math:
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Understanding Division and various techniques used
: Rounding and estimation for large
number division.
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Understanding the rule of bodmas
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Understanding the division techniques and
using rounding and estimation.
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Relation between all the four basic
operations.
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January 17-22,2016:
The week was very busy week with lots of learning.
In the ongoing unit of inquiry students designed and conducted a
survey to know about the choices they make for their well-being.The survey will be
analysed in the coming week. They further inquired into the impact on body due
to harmful choices like smoking, consumption of alcohol, consuming less water
than required, eating excessively,dieting, less sleep,over sleeping and many
other choices that lead to disorders and malfunctioning of body systems.
Formative assessment three on making informed choices - was
conducted where the students have to present their understanding based on their
individual inquiries about an organ, it’s disease symptoms and precautions and
cure.
In mathematics students mapped the different weights of organs
creating bar graphs in their books and using Microsoft Excel.Students logged on
to Myimaths and watched videos on metric conversions to understand the concept.
They applied their knowledge by measuring their heights in pairs and converting
the height from cms, inches and feet.They used both standard and non-standard
units of measurements like meter scale and elbow length.They further practiced
metric conversions sums and word problems.
Language was a lot of fun and critical thinking as they
had to practise descriptive writing at all levels.They took an assessment on
descriptive writing on their topic of choice.In Hindi they practiced a
role play on interconnections between different body organs.Library was a
fun time as students read books for pleasure. Choir group is formed for
practise in Music and Art was completing all the pending works of the past and was
even more fun and learning. Guided reading is now becoming more challenging as
the students are moving into higher levels of reading and in guided writing
lots of practise websites are posted on the blog to practise the concepts.
On Monday Jan 25, the students will be assessed on their
understanding about the central idea for the summative assessment, where they
have to be the health manager and talk about the general well being, body
systems and healthy choices.
Students will do an assessment in metric measures on Wednesday
Jan 27. They can practise more critical mathematics by logging on the link in
mathematics tab.
Jan 25-29,2016
The week started on a cheerful note . Tuesday was an off on account of Republic day celebrations and on Wednesday a republic day assembly was conducted by the Hindi department. Students learned about good manners and its impact on human body in connection to the ongoing unit of inquiry-Body systems. In PE students played KHO-KHO to understand the impact of physical exercise on the body.Few of the students were selected for the inter school competition in KHO-KHO as well.
Library was fun time ,reading for pleasure and issuing interesting books. Students had loads of fun participating in the grade 3 Entrepreneurship day conducted as a culmination of their ongoing unit.
Mathematics students were assessed on their ability for metric conversions and review is ongoing in metric measures.measures. Summative assessments were conducted for their understanding of the ongoing unit on Body Systems. In language students were assessed on the descriptive writing and assessment folders were sent home.
February 1-6,2016
The new Unit started with creating a story board in groups ,the task was to build a city and students created a 2D board on different characteristics of a city.Mathematics was a lot of fun as we looked at Time and its conversions for the elapsed time and also at the time line of different civilisations. In Hindi teachers started to give the students a feel of Indian civilisation. Students are required to bring artefacts for the unit table.
PYP exhibition also took momentum as the students were informed about the mentors and they also booked slots of time to meet the mentors during the week to continue with the work. The week ended with lot of fun related to Math Mela and students had loads of fun moving to different strand stations and doing hands on activities.
Next week students will inquire for the science exhibition and work alongside for the unit as well.
February 15-19,2016
The week was a busy one with the ongoing inquiry on characteristics of different civilisations. Students worked on world maps and timelines of civilisations to understand their development.In art students are working on artefacts of different civilisations to understand changes and developments. Students worked on narrative writing pieces to understand the criteria and applied this to weave their own stories. In Hindi students are working on narrative techniques as well.Maths was more fun with the bearings and introduction to percentages. The students had great fun participating and being spectators of the Inter-school IB PYP Swimming gala.
Find here the video for Happiness Saturday-Science Fair.
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