Grade 1 How We Express Ourselves Term 2 Week 1

We learned about rectangles, squares and oblongs by doing origami (folding) and kirigami (cutting). 

1st Grade made a castle and wrote a New Year's promise on it.

     The class continued their studies about shapes using blocks. Elysia made the above castle.

The children have been doing some Echo and Choral poetry reading with their teacher. 

We played an English word game whereby the students caught the ball and guessed the word. 

Everybody practiced spelling their color words that we will have a test on next Friday. 

We did mathematics with problems such as 36 - 5. The children learned that they could subtract the 5 from the 6 and bring the 3 down in the tens place to get the answer 31. 

The children have been learning to problem solve in ICT class with computers. 

 Our show and tells were really interesting today with houses, cars, dinosaurs and Ninja stars!

 This is a slinky and it glows in the dark! This giant spring-like toy can walk down steps! 

                     The princess is ready to be rescued by Mario and the rest of the crew!

                  This remote controlled dinosaur moves, chews and his eyes light up! 

                                      This Super Ball sparkles and bounces really high!

                            No show and tell would be anything without Captain America!

 The dinosaur's eggs hatched and we have twin dinosaurs in our room. 

                                        First Grade has brand new set of Ladybird Readers!

                             The pupils are learning to organize their work and possessions. Our new PYP unit is "How We Express Ourselves."

Lego Robotics Tournament Photos and Results

Congratulations to the JIES Lego Robotics Team, Hydro Heroes, for all their hard work and dedication to the team.  We went to the tournament on December 16th and faced teams of students aged 9-16 years old from around the Tokyo area!  Despite being one of the youngest teams there, the team did very well and we are all proud of them!  They got to meet other students and learn about their ideas, as well as present their own.  I hope the students continue to challenge themselves with robotics and next year do even better!

Out of the 72 teams that participated Hydro Heroes were...

Robot Performance 30^th

Total Presentation 40th
Core Value 48th
Project　40th
Robot Design 38^th

Total 35^th

Grade 5&6 - Week 1 - How we express ourselves.

Grade 5/6 Week 1, January 9-12, 2018

Trans disciplinary Theme: How we express ourselves

Central idea: Art often reflects cultural experience and is influenced by technological progress.

                     Change: How forms of expression adapt to evolving media.

                     Connection: How we observe culture through art.

                     Reflection: How we reflect on our experiences to create art. 

This is what we are learning in Math classes.

Different versions of a  famous art work (The Scream) by Edvard Munch

In our inquiry classes, we chose two different artists(Paul Cezanne, Jackson Pollock) and searched about their life, experience, and culture. We also wrote a timeline to show the important events happened in their life.