Reflection on math

I love math, and I always will. It is one of the strongest topics out of other ones. Math is useful even when you grow up. For example, you have to check how much change you get when you buy things. Math is learning but in different ways, it’s fun! Example, you can experiment probability by throwing a coin 50 times and see how many times you get head and how many times you get a tail. It should be around 25 times each.
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

Reflection - how we started

We were all struggling at the begining and now look where we are! We are going to go back to the past to remember what all we did, and how our lovely teachers guided and helped us.
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 Rhea

only a few more days left!!!!!

Almost 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

Today, we have finished the play/musical and we have practised on it. Others have practised on the global warming dance. We have finished the letters to the headline saying
"THE PYP EXHIBITION IN GRADE 5".
i think this is going to be a great exhibition!!!!!!

BY Sara Berglund
5a

The countdown begins

Here starts the countdown. we just have 11 days left for the PYP Exhibition. I am excited like anything. on the 20.05.2008, Monday we have to show miss all our costumes for the dances, the charts, the speech, the plan etc. I just cant wait for the big day. I have done most of my stuff and the rest will be surely done by the next weekend which is the 23,24 and 25 of may. We dont get any homework these days except the work of the PYP exhibition. In english we are doing something which is related to the PYP exhibition. Mioss Mohua gave us 2 options we had to choose one of them and do it.I have decided to do the 2 option but even do 1 extra poem. I am done with the poems but I still have to finish the short story. For the cultural show I am doing a skit, a dance ans a pup pet show. We are half way through with the dance and the skit but we have just started the puppet show.It is okay as we can finish it this week.I am excited and cant wait for the"Big Day".


Megha Goel
V-A
Indus International School

Pyp exhibition

On 6th May we talked a lot about the PYP exhibition.

• Ms. Poonam talked to us about our folders
• We worked on our Global Warming Musical
• Some people made badges and bookmarks
• Rhea,Ana, Ricky,and Sara are going to make a compost pit
• Nehal,Ruchi and me are making a survey for Cisco since our parents work there to find out what cisco is doing to be eco-friendly
• Some people even made cards

Zoish Pithawala

what we have done for the pyp exhibition so far...

today, ms.poonam told us that the PYP exhibition is very big thing.
so far i have...

1. answered all the student questions we made in class
2. started a ppt on the ozone layer
3. made an action plan
4. helped finish the skript of 'the great global warming musical'
5. made questions for the ozone layer
6. almost finished the contents of my PYP exhibition folder

MY ACTION PLAN: Ana, Sara , Ricky and i are going to organise a compost pit to put our schools waste in and turn it into manure. then we will sell the manure. Ana and I are going to make a website.

Reflection on our field trip to Lal Bogh

Grade 5 went to a field trip to Lal Bogh on Thursday 24th April 2008. We saw lots and lots of trees. Miss Roopa guided all of us. We did lots of fun activities except that lots of people were allergic to something there, which was why they didn’t enjoy as much as others did.
Miss Roopa showed and told us about seven different trees: Peeple, Ficus Mysorensis, White Silk Cotton, Sita Ashoka, Sausage Tree, Chicken Pox Tree and Krishna’s Buttercup. In the notebook that Miss Roopa had given us, we wrote down the things we learnt and noticed about each tree, as well as how we will remember it and what we would name it. We even bark rubbed the Chicken Pox Tree so we could see the chicken pox-like buttons clearly on the paper.
Then we played a game where we were in groups of 5 or 6 and searched for names of countries that some trees came from. The team which gets the most wins. The team who won got 17 countries.
We also smelled Leaves that smelled like lemon and mint on our way. After a while we sat down and in total silence, we wrote what we heard: Cicada (insect that makes noise by rubbing its legs together), music, people talking & laughing, horns of cars, birds singing, airplanes, wind and people’s footsteps.
Next, we saw a banyan tree that strangled another tree by going around it. Then everybody started to ask for Miss Roopa’s autograph.
We went to an enormous tree and everybody climbed up and down. That was really fun. After enough playtimes, we all grouped together on the tree and Miss Roopa, our class teachers, and us talked about how global warming is connected to trees and nature. Then we went home.

Ana

Our trip to Lalbagh

On 24th of april (thursday) we went for afield trip to Lalbagh. We had a kind of guide named Ms.Roopa. First when everyone arrived we sat on a mountain kind of rock which was a volcanoe about 3 billion years old. that was the time when dinosaurs existed! Then we left from there and went to the peepal's tree, the fig tree etc. Later we went to the biggest tree in Lalbagh and all of us climbed the tree. Then we had a disscussion near the tree. After this we went back to the place where we started (the volcanoe place).

My reflection

I like this field trip very much because we discovered many things that I wasn't aware of. I had gone to Lalbagh many times but this time I liked it because I was with my friends and we did some research together etc. We had lots of fun though we were all exosted.

Tejaswini 5-A

Field Trip to Lalbagh

Today grade 5 went for a field trip to LalBagh. LalBagh was founded nearly 250 years ago by Hyder Ali.
We looked at different trees and wrote down several things about the tree in our nature notebooks we got. All the trees we saw were very unique and unusual in their own ways. There was a Cypress Garden, the story behind the Cypress Garden was that Tipu Sultan(son of Hyder Ali) used to ask people to bring to him lots of different plants and trees from different parts of the world to plant in LalBagh.
We went to that garden and were asked to get in to groups of 5, we went around the Cypress Garden and looked for the contries name from which the plant was from. There was lots of places like: China, Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico etc.

We went to LalBagh to see all the plants and trees in terms of how they protect our Earth from Global Warming. Overall I liked the field trip and it was intresting to learn about how trees protect our Earth and not only that we got to learn about all the different trees that grow in the world.

Misha

grade 5's feild trip to lalbagh

today gr5 went on a feild trip to a place called lal bagh. we were going n a trail from a company from bangalore walks.the bus picked me up at villa del mar. it came 1hour late!! me and ana waited there for 1hour and 15mins. eventually the bus came and we got on. the people already in there told us the bus that was supposed to come never arrived and they had to get a new one! anyway, the bus ride was really fun. i sat with ruchi. after 35 minutes, we reached lalbagh. when we got there we said hi to the people who were already there. then we got these cool, free
eco-friendly bags with pouchs and nature notebooks. we sat on a enourmous rock which used to be a volcnao and talked to our guide about plants. this got kind of boring at times so i just talked to ruchi. finally we started exploring the different trees in lalbagh. we noted down stuf in our notebooks. i was alergic to some trees in lalbagh and i felt sick so i did not participate to much. i just stayed with ms.mohua. at the end we got to climb a huge tree:the biggest in lal bagh. the nurse who accompanied us told me not too because i might be allergic but it looked really fun so i climed it anyway. then our guide made us reflect. it was really boring. the trip was ok. i liked the bus ride better.
by rhea 5a

PYP Exhibition

In grade 5A we are preparing for the PYP Exhibition by firstly deciding our topics. Mine is drugs. As usual we started by making a unit title(which we got to decide on our own) and then a central idea and lastly five or six inquiry points. We got to decide how we want to present the information. We had different options. We chose to do a skit with a message . DON'T TAKE DRUGS. For our individual work we have each chosen to do our own separate drugs. I chose to do crystal meth which is a type of drug. Which is a drug that is usually somed in glass pipes. It is prescribed in very, very small quantity by doctors for weight loss but some people take too much and start to look demented. We will make some posters, powerpoints, etc. too explain. I chose to do drugs because I thought it would be a very interesting topic to learn about. And it is!

Ritesh

pyp exhibition: the begining

when miss poonam told us about the pyp exhibition everyone was excited that we would get to conduct our own uoi topic doing everything by ourselves central idea, inquirery points... the usual stuff. we started by going to the av room with 5b and were given pieces of paper to write all the burning issues in the world and pick what you think is most important and why you think so. i chose pollution because pollution causes global warming which most people chose. in the end we split up in three groups

1. polltuion and global warming
2. drugs
3. save the animals

i am in the pollution and global warming group. our central idea is: 'global warming is a serious threat to the earth and it is our responsibility to stop pollution in order to prevent global warming and save our planet.' in our classroom since there were lots of people in my group we split up into three other groups. i am in a group with zoish, alex, jere, faizan and shahajii.

preparing for the exibition is hard work, but really fun too!!

by rhea aurora 5a

The Math Exhibition

The math exhibition was coming and all the PYP classes were very busy. So was ours. I was going to talk about “how to make tangram pieces” out of squared paper, with Tejaswini. Each and every child in the class got to know what they have to say. Then we all had a chance to practice in front of the class. I and Teju were ready earlier then other people. So we helped others on their charts and we also helped Miss Poonam decorate the class.
The day was about to come and all of us were putting the tables into there places. But Teju and I got separated because Nikita needed a lot of help so Teju went to her group and me alone. But somehow I was happy to be able to manage talking about a topic alone. And I had to seat next to Ricky and Nicolas who were talking about “how to make tangram DESIGNS”.
The PYP had the math exhibition on Wednesday 19th March 2008 from prep 1 to grade 5. Our grade talked about all kinds of things we learnt in math: large numbers, tangrams, graphs, coordinates, number patterns, transformations, and much, much more.
I told the customers what tangrams were and I showed them how to make tangram pieces, then I passed the pieces to my classmates and they showed the people how to make different shapes out of it.
I really liked the math exhibition because I had a lot of fun and my throat didn’t hurt like on the day of the science exhibition which is one of the reasons why I liked the math exhibition better and the other reason is because we knew exactly what other people were talking about.

Ana Choi

My surgery

On Wednesday March 5th I went to the manipal hospital for a surgery. I was having it on my spinal cord. It was my 7th surgery. I was out of the hospital on Saturday, March 8th. I have to stay home for a few weeks before going back to school. Both Mrs.Poonam and Mrs.Mohua came to visit me. The food that the hospital gave was horrible!!! It was so bad my mom and dad had to bring food from home. In the American hospitals you get pizza and burgers but what I noticed in India it is rice,rice and more rice.
My doctor showed my mom and my dad a video of the surgery. They even saw the people cutting me open!!! My mom thought the video was really neat and my dad almost barfed.
I am looking forward to coming to school soon.

By Adrianne Satish

5A

science exhibition

we had the science exhibition on 27th and 28th and we worked really hard i was doing the benifits. on 27th we visited other kids and they saw ours. they did the folowing projects...

1. gr1-shodows and light
2. gr2-expirements
3. gr3- plants
4. gr4- machines
5. gr5- space of course!!!

the next day was the main thing where all the parents saw us. everyone was nervous. but for some odd reosan i was not!! i dont know why but i was not really anxious even if i got my lines 2 days ago!! anyway, i still got a partially sore throat and had to constantly drink water. i was glad when it was over and i got to go home!!

by rhea

The Science Exhibition

On Wednesday 26 February 2008, we had the first day of the science exhibition after so much hard work.
Our topic was “Space”. I was to talk about the presentation that my father made for grade 5. The evening before, I asked my dad how to present it the way he did. So he thought me.

We were preparing in the morning and after lunch, we went to see other classes. I first went to my brother’s class (grade 1). Their topic was about light. My brother spoke about the reflection of light. Then we went to see grade 2. Their topic was about chemical experiences. After grade 2 finished their presentation, they all sang a song to us. We then went to grade 3, then 4 and finally it was our turn. Everybody in grade 5 was exited, including me. All the other grades came to watch our presentation. Each time when my turn came, I tried to explain my PPT as interesting as possible. Not many people came to our class because most of them were too young to understand.

The day ended and we just waited till tomorrow comes. Tomorrow came and I was so exited that the energy in me wanted to pop out. Today was the 2nd day of the science exhibition. The day for parents to come. The parents came from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. My throat started hurting from 11 o’clock, because I talked to lots of parents. Luckily it was the time when break started, so I went out, drank water, and ate my snack. So my throat felt better. Then my mum came at 11:45. I talked to her in my best voice and in the most interesting way I could talk because I didn’t want her to be disappointed with me. Time went on fast and soon, science exhibition was over. I was really proud of myself.
It was over and my brother took pictures of me, my friends and Ms. Poonam. I went home feeling proud and happy.

Ana Choi

Grade 5A

Our Science Exhibition

On the 27th and 28th there was a science exhibition.In the science exhibition grade 5 was doing space. We were preparing for days.On the 27th all the children of the PYP came. The younger kids didn't understand much.We also saw the other grades. Grade 1 did light. Grade 2 did chemical reactions. I didn't get to see grades 3&4 though. On the 28th all the parents came to see. The classroom was fully decorated and looked awesome. Everybody had some sort of project to work on. In the morning everyone was excited but later we were exhausted from saying the same lines over and over again. I was doing the ISS (International Space Station) and had made a model. It was very fun but boring after saying everything again after 1 or 2 times. It was really tiring and I felt very thirsty and my troat was dry , but after I spoke they said that I spoke very good. The full class was so busy in their work. Everything went well and everyone enjoyed. I felt really proud for speaking so much and very confident. When I went home I felt proud and very happy and a bit tired. I think grade 5a did a great job just like they always do. GO GRADE 5A!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zoish

preparing for the science exhibition (a big day!!)

on the 27th and 28th we will have our science exhibition. as our current uoi topic is space, and that is to do with science, we will be doing this for the science exhibition. megha and i are doing how astronauts live and work in space. it is a fun topic because i found out so many things which were gross and funny! ms. poonam is only giving us the hw: work on science project seriously and it is all we are doing in class these days models lines,charts , EVERYTHING!!!!!! it is fun but frustarating sometimes. megha and i planned a model but when we were making it the model turned out different and it was way difficult to make that thing! we, as the great 5Aers have to a good job cause everyone expects so much from us!!! (cuz we're great of course!!) we are going to decorate the classroom completly whith our work, models, charts and black chart paper and i think its gonna look great!!! go 5A!!!!
rhea aurora 5a
indus international school

Our Field Trip

Grade 5 went on a field trip on the 19th of February to the Vishvashwariya Museum and to the Nehru Planetarium. First we went to the museum and had lots of fun. We saw rockets,satellites,models, experiments, projects and lots more. We learnt about the mission control and played lots of quizzes. We also got to weigh ourselves on different planets. Then we went to the Nehru Planetarium and saw a show. The show told us about the different planets and about our universe. It was really cool because the stars were shining and the pictures kept popping up and looked really nice. We knew most of it becuase Ms.Poonam taught us so much about space.I learnt alot on our field trip and had loads of fun.
Zoish Pithawala
Indus International School
Bangalore

Our field trip

Grade went on a field trip to the Vishweswaria Museum then to the Planetarium.
In the museum, we saw many fun experiments. We saw a ball trapped in an invisible box and flying because of the strong air, a magnet in the water that can be moved by another magnet outside, a jet-flying airplane, satellites orbiting a globe, models of satellites, news paper about space, how much we weigh on each planet in the solar system, we answered quizzes from computers, ourselves on TV and win in games from there, and MUCH MUCH more.
Then we had lunch and went to the Planetarium. We saw a movie about space. Most of it was about what we already know but some parts were knew for me like, the planets are leftovers from the Nebula that formed the sun, people thought that the Earth was in the middle of our solar system, and MUCH MUCH more.Then we went back to school and took the bus to go home. I had so much fun today with my classmates.

Ana Choi

Grade 5A

our feild trip to vishawarya mueseum and nehru planetariom

today gr5 went on a field trip. the bus ride was fun and everyone was singing and exchanging snacks and secrets. me and ruchi made up a funny song to sing and i kept laughing while singing it. it was pretty far away and we finally got to the mueseum. there we learnt about different things in space (personally i think ms.poonam is taught us much more than the mueseum!) after that we had lunch and went to the planetariam. over there we had to wait for the show and played outside. the inside was decent but we had to wait alot they probaly had some technical difficulties. during that time me and ruchi talked alot. it was a nice show about the solar system and was interesting. after that we went back to school and everyone was just as wild as the first ride.the teachers got strickter and did not let us run around, but they bought us icecream! when we reached school there was 1 hour left to go home so we played in the sports complex. overall it was a pretty fun day.
by rhea

what i learnt about satellites

today ana's dad who works in ISRO came to talk to us about satellites. he had made a great PPT presantation which i learnt alot from. mr.choi started with some cool images from google earth inwhich we found out where indus international school was in the whole universe it was amazing! the pictures were amazing and so accurate! everyone started clapping for no apperant reason.after that mr.choi explained about how we use satellites in our daily lives for satellite comunication,navigation,observation etc. and showed us a cool video about this. we also learnt about where satellites are positioned in space and where different satellites are from the earth. i think he explained very nicely and i learnt alot about satellites today in an interesting way.
by rhea aurora 5a
indus international school

gr5 assembly about space

Today we had an assembly about space. First Nihal said some words. Then we started of with a funny play about all the planets and the sun gathering for a meeting. Adrianne, Megha and Nicolas introduced and concluded it.All the planets were describing their problems and grumbling except earth. The characters were……
1. Sun- Zoish
2. Mercury- Alex
3. Venus- Shreya
4. Earth- Ruchi
5. Mars- Sacha
6. Jupiter- Hugo
7. Saturn- Nihal
8. Uranus- Tejaswini
9. Neptune- Nayantara
10. Pluto- Karan
I think the play was good! The people who didn’t get roles got to be humans or were given speaking roles. After that was Ana was speaking about the technological advancements in space exploration. They were all written by me!!!! I was next with benefits of space exploration. I made a PPT on this with pictures so it would be easier to understand what I was saying. After me the 5B kids took care of the show. They had something planning a mission to Saturn and a presentation about the moon. No offence to 5B but I think our part of the show was better.
by rhea

advancements in space exploration

Humans have gone very far in space exploration.
ü Before humans could only look up there and admire the sky. Now we are building hotels outside Earth!
ü First humans had to take loads of food with them to space. Now astronauts can remain healthy with one tiny capsule!
ü First astronauts just spent a few minutes in space. Now they spend months there!
ü Before it was just animals and robots that went into space because humans were not brave enough. Now humans are sure of what they are doing and they go up.
ü First the space suits and oxygen supplies were not so good so we could not stay in space for very long. Now are equipment is so good we stay in space for long periods without dying or something.
ü First the space ships could only be used once and than thrown away wasting lots of hard-earned money. Now we can use them over and over again.
ü Before space travel was really risky. Now nobody is really scared of space travel.
ü Before people thought the sun orbited the earth. Now we know that all planets in the solar system orbit our sun.
ü First nobody new about the other planets. Now we know all about them.
ü First the telescopes were not to strong and you hardly could see anything clearly because of the atmosphere. Now we can see other galaxies with the Hubble space telescope.
ü First it was just USA and Russia in the space race. Now its all kinds of countries working together.
There are so many advances we have made in space exploration!
by rhea

interesting news about space

Everyday we bring in news about space there are so many interesting new things we learn which we cannot find in the class library books because they were printed around three years back and does not have the latest space news. Here is some interesting space news I have learned about so far…
Þ Mercury is shrinking! Scientists have proved this because of the creases on the surface. I think that it is weird because the universe is expanding not decreasing. Maybe if Mercury gets any smaller it would have to be declared not a planet just like Pluto!
Þ India is sending a lunar module to the moon called the ‘Chandrayann1’which will orbit the moon for a while and then land on it. It will launch around April this year.
Þ China is sending a space craft too. It is called ‘chang1’. I am glad that now it is not only countries like Russia and USA sending things to space, now even developing countries like India.
Þ Mysterious metallic Mercury actually has ice! According to me Mercury is a weird planet.
Þ There was an asteroid that flew past earth recently. Another asteroid that just passed Mars might hit earth!
Þ An American spy satellite might hit the Earth. It is most likely to hit an ocean. I hope it doesn’t cause any damage!
Þ A weird woman was found on Mars. Later I found out it was just a rock.
Þ People start planning, designing and building the Virgin Galactic. The world’s first commercial space craft!
I hope I find out more interesting news like this!
by rhea

Benefits of Space Exploration
By Rhea Aurora

There are many benefits to space exploration. Findings and advances in space technology have had an amazing effect on things back on earth. For example,
Þ They are finding out cures for cancer patients.
Þ People who don’t want glasses but can not see without them can use contact lenses.
Þ Can make operations less painful with lasers so they don’t have to cut up the whole body when they are only fixing one part.
Þ Big advancements in the medical fields.
Þ We will have extremely accurate clocks which will even tell you the .0000000000000001 of a second!
Þ Computer barcodes, alarm systems, smoke detectors and other safety devices had first been used with NASA technology.
Þ Some experiments are easier to do in space then on earth so scientists do them there discovering both what they wanted to know and some other new awesome facts.
Þ We might not even have our favorite videogames!
Þ Some special material discovered in space is used for sports equipment like tennis rackets.
Þ Some great strong, light-weight fabric material is so sturdy it can be used for so many things from building to clothes to blankets.
Some people wonder if it is worth all that money to go up there. I think it is because we are finding so much! We can’t just stay in our cradle (earth) forever. We need to get out and explore the amazing things beyond our earth. In my opinion space exploration is very important and we should continue space exploration.

all about asteroids

ASTEROIDS -by rhea aurora

1.Asteroids are chunks of space rock which are leftovers from the nebula(the birth of stars).

2.Asteroids don't just float around in space, most of them are orbiting the sun in a huge ring in between Mars and Jupiter's orbit.this is called the asteroid belt.

3.The name 'Asteroid' is the Greek word for star like.asteroids can also be called minor planets or planetoids (planet like).

4.The largest asteroid ever found so far is called Ceres , it has a 1000km diameter .Most asteroids are usually around 100km. the smallest asteroid is 1993Ka2,it is barely 5m across!

FUN FACTS!

1. Some asteroids orbit other asteroids!
2. Some asteroids have there own moons
3. If all the asteroids in our solar system were put together it would be less than a third of the moon!(1/3)
4. The weight of all the asteroids in the solar system would be 1000 times less than earth!
5. The 2 moons of mars , Deimos and Phobos are not round like our moon ,they are more like baked potatos! People think they may be asteroids trapped in mars' power!

Senior Indus Day

When I came to the Senior Indus Day I was very nervous (not that I was in it), but the fact to see and wait which house would win. There were 3 categories: dance, drama, and singing. The winner of the dance was Orion!!, the winner of the drama was Orion!!, the winner of singing was Orion!!, and finally they announced the winner of inter house.....I was very nervous and the winner was............ORION!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

Hugo Epping
Grade 5A
Indus International School

WHAT I LEARNT ABOUT SPACE

In our current UOI topic "The Final Frontier" I learnt many interesting facts about space, which are:

1. I learnt about all the planets (including their diameter, order from the sun, how big they are, interesting features etc.)
2. I also learnt that if cockroaches go up into space and breed the baby will become a different color than there parents because of the lack of gravity.
3. Another fact I learnt is that even though Mercury is closer to the sun than Venus, Venus is still hotter because Venus has clouds that trap the heat inside them.
4. I also learnt that "Sputnik 1" wasn't the first thing to go into space, it was actually a small rocket that wasn't meant to go into space which was about 40-50 years before "Sputnik 1".
5. I also learnt about black holes (how big they can become, what kinds of black holes exist, what is the cause of a black hole etc.)
6. Another thing I learnt was asteroids (how big they can become, what they are made out of etc.)
7. Another thing I learnt about is meteoroids (how big they can become, other names for meteoroids, that once they hit a planet's surface they are known as meteorites etc.)
8. I learnt about the 1st people to go up into space.
9. I learnt about Neil Armstrong and his crew and there trip as the 1st people to walk on the moon.
10. I learnt about our moon and its looks in the sky.
11. I learnt that there was water found on Mars and that there might be life (or had life) on Mars.
12. I learnt that there is an asteroid that was supposed to hit Mars but it missed so it might crash into Earth soon (I'm scared!)
13. I learnt that they sent a probe to land on Mars' ice caps and will see if the water is healthy enough for life.
14. I learnt that India is going to send a satellite "Chandrayaan" (which means Lunar Vehicle in Hindi) to orbit the moon and eventually crash onto its surface.
15. I learnt that China is going to send something called "Chang 1" into space.
16. I learnt that if you weigh 100kg on Earth that you will weigh 106.4kg on Saturn.
17. Another thing I learnt is disasters that occurred in space such as: Apollo 1, Columbia etc.
18. Another thing I learnt is Saturn's atmosphere, Saturn's gases, which god Saturn is named after etc.
19. I learnt that Saturn has 7 main rings and that they can be 20 metres thick.
20. I leant that Mars' 2 moons are actually asteroids cought in its gravitational pull.
21. I learnt that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, but it is actually a dwarf planet.
22. I learnt that "Sputnik 1" was actually 2 inches tall!
23. And I learnt that space shutles can be used more than once unlike rockets.

Hugo Epping

Grade 5A

Indus International School

indus day

when indus day finally came everyone was excited and nervous . we had not taken our practices very seriously .they were very tiring ,boring and you never looked forward to it . it was worth it we put up a fantastic show which everyone loved ! i was in the musical joseph and his amazing multi coulered dream coat the other shows were things like yoga dance and spanish song etc. we put up a pretty good show before preperations were fun we got free popocorn !

by rhea