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