- I remember things from PE like the time we had a conflict. (Emilie & Esther)
- I felt I did a good job in my work. It was all fun to do, but also a little bit hard. (Scarlett)
- I felt proud of myself, of what I've done. (Jakob)
- In the 'Not a Stick' work I really used my imagination. (Sanjita)
- I felt proud of my Great White Shark research. (Miri)
- I felt confident when I looked at my work of measuring the eggs. (Scarlett)
- I'm still thinking about my Wild Self work. (Hana T)
- I did a great job of my hundreds chart missing number work because I thought I couldn't do it and then I did it. (Emilie)
- I think I've improved a lot over the year, especially in my writing activities like 'Dear Friends'. (Jack B)
- I felt impressed with all my work. (Quinn)
- I think I improved in writing stories. (Hana M)
- I also think I improved a lot with my 'Dear Friends' especially when I did it by myself. I felt happy and it was fun. (Scarlett)
In our last week of school, we did a lot of reflecting on our year in Grade 1. On of the activities was an individual portfolio reflection. Here are some of our thoughts after viewing our work:
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This week we visited the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park to celebrate our wonderful year together. As we walked through the park to get to our picnic spot, the students were able to make many great connections to our 'Where we are in place and time unit'. They observed and commented on how all sorts of different people were using and the park, and in different ways! We saw people jogging, doing yoga and stretches, walking their dogs, playing on playgrounds, working to clean the ponds, doing team activities as school groups, and even filming a movie! We finally met our parents at the picnic spot after a very long (and accidental!) walk. We were so happy to share this exciting morning with them. We played on the adventure playground, ate delicious food, reflected on our year, and share holiday plans and stories. It was a beautiful way to celebrate our great year. We hope you had fun!! What a fun day we had on Friday at the Elementary School Swim Gala! We felt lucky to be in the water on such a hot Singapore day and were thankful to all the mummies and daddies who came to support us in the heat! Thanks too to Mr. Nathan and Mr. Keef for all of their organization. We loved showing our swimming skills off at all the exciting stations! We're already looking forward to next year! A video of Swim Gala is now available on the ISS Phys Ed website. CLICK HERE to see it. Thanks to Mr. Vic for his great camera skills! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Jack! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to Jack D who turns 7 today! We celebrated Jack's special day by singing "Happy birthday" and digging into some delicious cupcakes. Did we mention they were army-style? Thanks for the special treat! We hope you have a great birthday weekend! Love Grade 1AC We'd been waiting a long time to go on our Forest Adventure field trip. When we were first supposed to go, there was a HUGE thunder storm that kept us at school, so we rescheduled for May 2 and started counting down the days! Our high ropes course adventure was connected to our unit of inquiry about peace and conflict, during which we investigated how we can help each other through personal conflict. To prepare for the trip, we read the books Courage by Bernard Waber and Ish by Peter Reynolds. They both have themes of supporting other people when we don't feel brave or confident. In Ish, Marisol compliments and encourages her brothers art work that he thinks is not very good. The last page of the story Courage says "Courage is what we give to each other". So we discussed: How can we give someone courage?
We put these and other strategies to use to encourage each other to take big risks on the high ropes. Congratulations to everyone in Grade 1AC for supporting their friends through their fears, problem-solving, and decision-making. Well done! Today Grade 1AC participated in Chalk-a-Bration Day. This is a special event thought up by the author of the blog Teaching Young Writers in the United States. She had the bright idea of inviting people to join her in celebrating poetry by writing it with chalk. Our friends from Mrs. Frazier's class in Ohio first found this event and us the link and idea over Twitter. Earlier this month we became interested in a particular kind of poem called Haikus because of a slideshow app we use on the ipad called 'Haiku Deck'. Of course lots of students had questions about exactly what a Haiku was, so we investigated and found out. We even shared our discoveries with Mrs. Frazier's class on Twitter. They suggested a book we might like to read called Guyku which is full of Haiku's! We were so excited when one of the authors, Peter H. Reynolds, joined our conversation. How exciting! And so it was decided! We were so inspired by the ideas of all of these wonderful people that we joined the Chalk-a-Bration and focused on Haikus. We wrote our Haikus in small groups and were surprised to find out that we even needed to use our maths skills! Haikus have only 17 syllables. No more and no less. Many of us used number lines and our subtraction and counting-on skills and strategies to make sure our Haikus had exactly the right number of syllables. Once we finished our Haikus in the classroom we headed outside. It was time for chalk! We hope you enjoy our Haikus! If this butterfly could talk it would say Let's fly up in the garden. By: Scarlett, Quinn, Maryam, Sanjita & Min Jae If the clock strikes 12, Then I will turn to a wolf. I will eat people. By: Chloe, Jack D, Sofia & Hana M It is sunny and the horses are racing on the grass. It is nice. By: Jack B, Andy, Evangelina & Hana T Once there was a poor little puppy who saw a cat and ran away. By: Bailey, Jakob, Esther R, Filippa & Miri In Monday, April 22 people around the world celebrated Earth Day. At ISS we were lucky to continue our celebrations for a whole week! As many students pointed out though, Earth Day is not just about one day or one week. It's about taking the time to reflect on our actions and be thankful for all of the wonderful things our planet provides. To help us reflect, we read some books, made Earth Day pledges, and asked our friends on Twitter what they knew about Earth Day. To see the bright ideas from our class discussion about Earth Day, click on the file below:
One of the questions that came out of our discussion was whether or not everyone celebrated Earth Day, so we asked our friends from Mrs. Frazier's class in Ohio, USA. They gave us the clever idea to go on a Nature Walk, so we did that afternoon. We each took a photo of our walk and sent them over Twitter. The next morning we found a wonderful surprise! Mrs. Frazier's class had included our Nature Walk photos and their Nature Walk photos in a VoiceThread slideshow! Since then, a Grade 2 class from Maine has also shared their Nature Walk pictures. We had lots of fun finding the similarities and differences between them. Click here to see them for yourself! Thanks to the great organization of Kindergarten 2, we also had the opportunity to make promises to take action for our planet, which we included on the Elementary School Earth Day Pledge Tree:
Representation is the part of our inquiry when we start to discuss in depth how we can share what we have learned. We focus on the ways we can document our processes, ideas, theories, transformations, and understandings and make them visible to other people. We were lucky enough to have our yearly assembly presentation scheduled right around the time we were ready to start representing our learning. We considered our audience (Kindergarten 1 to Grade 5 students, parents, and teachers) and decided that the most significant thing we could represent was the types of conflicts that occur for students at our school and how they can resolve them with peaceful solutions. We had lots of class discussions about exactly what this would look like and decided that "role play" was the best way to show what we wanted to express. Together we wrote a script and started practicing! If you're interested, you can read our script here:
We think we did a great job of representing our learning and teaching the school how they can handle their conflicts. What do you think? We even inspired Aina M. in K1PA to create a puppet show using ideas from our performance. She showed two characters having a conflict over what game to play and finding a peaceful solution by choosing to play both games together...just like we did with tag and ball! Check out Aina's performance by clicking here.
Yesterday, the ISS Elementary School held a day of Student-Led Conferences. This event was an important opportunity for us to be responsible for explaining our own learning and progress. Our families were so proud of the work we have done and the improvements we have made. Today in our Morning Meeting we discussed the Student-Led Conferences and reflected on our experiences. Hana T. even added the event to our reflection calendar. Here are some of our thoughts and feelings:
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy lunar new year from Grade 1AC! We celebrated at school by performing a Mandarin song at the annual Chinese New Year assembly on Friday, February 8 and having a Lion Dance performed for us on Wednesday, February 13. Some lucky students even received received oranges and candy from the lion! Best wishes for a prosperous new year! |
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