The students were extremely excited to share the journeys they had taken recently, and writing about it in their travel journals. We would like to thank parents for supporting their children by sending photos from their trips to many places, it helped to make students’ stories more vivid and more enjoyable to write about and share with friends. Each child wrote about a place they had been to, what kind of transportation they had experienced, what the weather was like, which clothes they took with them and interesting activities they took part in. Those students who completed their writing journal had an opportunity to present it in front of the others, while others are still working on the final details. As the students were talking about the places they had traveled to recently, a conversation arose about the distance to various places, what transport we can most effectively use to get to each, different weather during the year, and what differences we see as the seasons change. We have been learning how we can collect information from the world around us and represent it with numbers. We talked about how organizing objects helps us to easily count and solve some problems. We started by classifying classroom objects and toys according to attributes, such as purpose, color, shape or other categories the students came up with. It was interesting to have conversations about how we can sort things into sets, how attributes are the same or different within a set, and the number of objects in each group. We will continue our inquiries into categorizing, collecting and presenting information in many ways.
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We are happy to see you all after the Winter holidays. The students also seemed excited to be back to school and to be able to play together with friends. As was mentioned in the last post, we have now started working on our “Where we are in time and place” Unit of Inquiry in which we focus our attention in journeys. You can ask your child about the 'International Airport' role play area we set up together to help to explore and learn about how and why people make journeys. To begin with, the students shared their experiences of traveling, and discussed the steps needed to take a trip by airplane using ‘going on a plane’ sequencing cards. After discussing airport procedures, both classes of PS2 students were split into small groups to set up airport dramatic play areas including an area for packing a suitcase, a taxi rank area, a check-in section, a scanner for luggage, a departure lounge and a boarding area. After setting up the airport in our classrooms, the students have been enjoying role-playing going through procedures, starting with packing appropriate items to take on a trip, and continuing by going through check in and security. They are very patient and polite while waiting in queues, and are enjoying acting as passengers, check-in staff, flight attendants and pilots. As was mentioned in the last post, students are invited to bring photographs and used tickets from their most recent trip to help with the design of their travel journals or posters. Photographs may be sent via email and we can print them out here at school. Thank you very much for your continuous support.
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