Grade 5 and 6 Law School

 

We have been working on a series of skits involving rights. Here, a woman wants to have an omelet for breakfast. The egg happens to be the Dodo bird's last egg on Earth. King Hammurabi tells the woman to split the egg into two and invites the Dodo for dinner at his palace. The king uses a knife and fork for a gavel (like he is going to eat the bird). 

Here is our script. The real purpose of the skits are to get some of our students that don't talk very much to express themselves.

                                         
            Our class has been experimenting with music. We tried to play Fallin' by Alicia Key. 

                     

One of our students turned himself into Hammurabi using computer aided drawing. 

The children are preparing for our Celebration of Learning. This project compares Hammurabi to today's law. 

Grade 5 and 6 have been making PYP attitude posters. 

The posters speak for themselves. 

Our last week's post mysteriously vanished. So, here it is again.

                                    

Grade 5 has been having fun making a bust of Hammurabi out of tape and cardboard for our upcoming Celebration of Learning. 

Grade 6 created cuneiform that contained Hammurabi's Law Code.

We have also been going over ancient numbering systems in PYP Mathematics. 

The students have been working on a script for a skit about Hammurabi and modern day judges. 

                                          

This skit is about how rights are granted. The Dodo bird has been accused of painting a white substance in the park. Of course, the bird is just answering to nature's calling- by pooping! The court clerk goes through the formalities of showing respect for the judge. The judge has read the case and asks how the bird pleads. The lawyer for the bird pleads "extinct" because the Dodo no longer lives. The judge has the bird rise for sentencing. The lawyer holds up the bird's feather. The bird gets 0 hours of community service and a 0 yen fine because it is his first offense. 

Our idea about having a trial with a Dodo bird came from the above inquiry book. Dodos went extinct because they couldn't fly away, people wanted their feathers and they were not so smart.