Happy Holidays! See you in January! The Gingerbread Stories! After studying the Gingerbread Man story last week, we made our own stories this week! First we planned out our stories on paper, then developed our digital communication skills by creating the books on Book Creator and recording our voices! Check out the books below! Final project After working on our project for a couple weeks, we took some portraits with ourselves! I wonder if we'll see them again after the holidays... Happy Holidays!
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Transdisciplinary Learning Transdiciplinary learning is the act of exploring different concepts and learning new knowledge through the integration of multiple disciplines (such as unit, literacy and math). Through our play and experiences, we explored many concepts while at the same time developing our literacy and numeracy skills. Venn Diagrams We learned a neat way to show how things are alike and different, by using these overlapping circles! After learning how to place information into Venn Diagrams, we compared "Gingerbread Men" and "Children" and thought about the similarities and differences. The Case of the Missing Gingerbread Man After reading the story of the Gingerbread Man, we had a case to solve! The Gingerbread Man had ran away and disappeared in our classroom. We had to solve many clues to find out where he was hiding. This exciting activity helped us to practice our literacy skills, math skills, decoding and thinking skills as we worked our way around the room and solved puzzles. Gingerbread Playdough! As you can see, we've been getting into the festive spirit by incorporating The Gingerbread Man story into our unit and classwork this week. Our next unit is all about our senses, so to learn a little about what we already know regarding our senses, our teacher gave us gingerbread playdough to explore. It is so interesting to hear how we discuss or explore using our sense of touch and smell.
Unit of Inquiry This week we started to create a large project, literally! We traced outlines of our bodies to create life size portraits. Then we mixed paint colours to create a shade that matches our skin because we are all unique and different, so there is no paint colour that matches us. Next week we will continue to work on these, adding detail and reflect on our physical abilities and special abilities. Heavy and Light We have learned there are so many ways to measure things! You can measure how tall or short something is, how full or empty, and also how heavy or light!
We explored the concept of heavy and light through many different ways: by investigating mystery bags, weighing classroom materials, creating crafts and even using digital apps! |
AuthorWe are a class of 4, 5 and 6 year olds at an international school in Singapore! We learn by playing, inquiring and having fun. Our teacher is Ms Bustamante, and this is our learning journey! Archives
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