Friday, June 6, 2008
Reflection on math
I like the math classes we get in Indus. We learn more and more. And it is fun. We even take tests that come from a 6th to 9th graders book and it is easy.
Strength-
I am pretty good at most of the subjects like decimals, ratio, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, percentage, area and perimeter, and so on.
Weakness-
I still need to improve in a little bit of fractions, and I have to try and avoid making silly mistakes in tests, because that’s what I do a lot which lowers my marks. So I will check the test paper at least once in the next math test I do.
Ana
Monday, May 19, 2008
Reflection - how we started
As I can remember, we first were teaching each other and learning from the board, the PYP profiles, the attitudes, the concepts, the skills, etc. and all those important things that we should know by now. Then I guess we decided the performences we'll do: dance, drama play, etc. After that, we shared good sites we found during laptop time. And then we were deciding the Theme, Unit Title, Central Idea, and inquiry points. We really struggled a lot to make the central idea as we had to come up with a good one. And we came up with a lovely central idea. Next we wrote individualy "How best might we learn" and the timeline/plan. Then was what I want to learn. We were then making our questions following the concepts. We kept on including things in our folder (the answers of our individual questions) until Earth Day came and we brought news about it and helped the Earth. After more days passed, that's when we realized that our inquiry points weren't inqeuiry points - they were - student qeustions! So we quickly changed our student questions which we thought they were inquiry points to real lovely inquiry points. Then we concentrated in our performences. After that, we found topics that we are actually going to talk in front of the parents, because, 28 children can't talk about the same thing over and over again. And we now are researching and researching into the deapth of our topic. We are also making charts and models. But that's not all, we were always taking action for the Earth. So now we are found here, at this time which is completely different from when we just started.
One more thing, I'd like to thank all the teachers who helped and guided us so nicely:
- Miss Poonam - for helping us so much by giving us ideas websites. She helped each one of us in the class. I really thank her.
- Mr. Joseph - for guiding us towards beautiful songs.
- Mr. Terrence - for helping us in our drama play.
- Miss Sabha & Shubba - for guiding the dancing students to a perfect end.
- Miss Prita - for helping us make good charts and posters.
- Miss Lakshmi - for guiding the students like Miss Poonam did.
Ana
only a few more days left!!!!!
The PYP exhibiton is so close by!!! We have all been working really, really really hard. These days we are only working on the PYP exhibiton. In other classes like art and english, we do stuff related to our topic too. Everyone has finally gotten serious about this. We have done alot so far.We have made posters and models. We are almost ready with plays and dances. and have done so much more!!!
by RheaAlmost There
Today we worked very hard on our musical and it is looking very good.With the help of Mr. Joseph and Mr.Terence all of the songs and lines have been learnt and the acting is really good. My powerpoint has been finished and I am working on my chart. It's only a few more days till the exhibition and everyone is working really hard.I am almost done with everything and we are almost there. I am very excited about the exhibition and I think it is going to be a great show.
Zoish Pithawala
Indus International School
Happenings today, in grade 5a
"THE PYP EXHIBITION IN GRADE 5".
i think this is going to be a great exhibition!!!!!!
BY Sara Berglund
5a
Sunday, May 18, 2008
The countdown begins
Megha Goel
V-A
Indus International School