St. Francis PYP 7 Blog

Last week we introduced our new central idea and lines of inquiry. We began with a lively provocation where students had an opportunity to research about an extreme climate and come up with a list of 5 items that they would need if they were to go there. This provocation stimulated a lot of conversation connected to our central idea and lead to several meaningful questions that we will use throughout the coming weeks. We then moved to unpacking the concept of adaptation and students shared their prior knowledge, opinions and ideas. We were amazed with their awareness and experience with the concept. Later on in the week, we began investigating features of maps together with climate zones. This week students will continue to investigate into climatic factors that occur in different climate zones.

Students working on maps with Claim, Support, Question.

Students feeling deflated while preparing for their trip to the wettest place in the world.

Students finding facts about the features of a map.

In Maths, we continued our work with mental maths, percents and fractions, and metric conversions. Next week, data management!

In Language, students wrote texts of their choice that were linked to the central idea. They experimented with Haiku poetry and developing their settings, expanded noun phrases and prefixes. Students continue to work on their stamina when writing, their ability to edit texts independently, and their own personal targets.

Last week was fulfilling and rich with learning opportunities. Way to go PYP 7!

Keep on asking those questions!

Monday, 20 March 2017

LIÇÃO DE CASA DE PORTUGUÊS

LIÇÃO DE CASA DE PORTUGUÊS

Para 24/03/2017

Mas, Mais e Más

Grupo1

Grupos 2 e 3

Tuesday, 14 March 2017

This week's homework

Homework

*Change in homework order this week. We will send Unit homework today in preparation for the start of unit 5.

Language
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k5vKQd9cNCMgTYokzd857h1YVzmbtW4P1_gWbl-YyBw/edit?usp=sharing

Unit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMBXjG-DN-CvimYwjgwskKl-LbKPEPy-ZqwoXhY4XhY/edit?usp=sharing

Maths
Myimaths

A look at last week!

Unit 4 comes to an end!

Last week students had the opportunity to apply their understanding of the central idea and lines of inquiry and create a communication tool that could be used in the future. Students were both enthusiastic and reflective when designing their communication tools.
During the summative, students also demonstrated their understanding of the key concepts: change, responsibility and connection as well as their ability to apply the features of an explanation text when creating a user guide for their tool. Their communication tools were diverse, ambitious and useful. Please see google classroom for more images leading up to the summative assessment. But for now, here are a few images that should spark your interest!

PYP 7 S preparing their communication tools.

Some communication tools from PYP 7 B.

More communication tools from PYP O.

Last week was also Book Week and PYP 7 participated in a lot of exciting activities. Parents read stories, we watched a presentation from SUPPA, we took part in special activities during the afternoons with other primary teachers, and dressed up as our favourite adventure book characters. It was a blast! See the highlights below.

Mrs Plaza reading to PYP 7 B.

Costumes from PYP 7 O.

Buddy reading in PYP 7 S.

We look forward to an exciting week ahead. We are beginning a new Unit of inquiry and we will be tuning in to what your child already knows. Be sure to ask them about the new unit!

Monday, 13 March 2017

LIção de casa de Português

Lição de casa de Português

para 17/03/2017

(Análise de Anúncio Publicitário Impresso)

Grupo 1

Grupo 2

Grupo 3