Term 2 Week 2 Upper PE

A part of the PYP is being balanced. We have been trying to balance balls on our feet and head.

The brim of the hat helped us to achieve our goal. 

Look Mom, no hands!

There is a certain amount of bravado when you achieve your goal!

We can accomplish the task even with a basketball.

We are, however, hoping this balancing act will help us with our soccer skills.

Grade 5 Term 2, Week 1

Hello SIS families! For the first week of being in school after winter break,
us grade 5 have done multiple things, and have gotten started on our
central idea. Our central idea is:

Identity is expressed through personal presentation.

In inquiry, we have gotten started and got thinking about different forms of
self expression that makes our identity. We brainstormed about different
forms of self expression, and chose 3 favorite ones, and chose 3 least
favorite ones. We explained one favorite form of expression very detailed.

We then thought about expression through music. Ms. Alyssa then put on
different music, and we thought about what feeling was expressed from

that song. We then chose our favorite songs, and wrote them down in
Google slides. We then chose one song of our favorite songs, then
wrote the following: What parts of our identity is represented in this song?
Why do we like this song? When do we listen to this song? and finally,
What this song communicates to the world about us? 

For math, we started on doing geometry. We started learning about
the properties of shapes, and learned important parts of shapes and
lines, like angles, intersections, and parallel, for example. Ms. Alyssa
then showed us different properties of shapes from Khan Academy.
We learned things like trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses, and more. 

On the performance day last year, us grade 5 performed multiple
things. We were both nervous and excited, but we tried our best.
Our first performance was upper Japanese. The name of the song
is "Top of the World." We worked with guitar ASP and sang the song.
Because it was the first performance that my class had, we were
nervous of how many people there were. It was a great one.

The next one was the puppet show. We worked very hard to do
a puppet show, and we were very excited for all of this. We practiced
it multiple times, but in the performance, it didn't go as expected.
Overall, we were very sad and angry at ourselves for not doing good.

The next one was “Happy.” Led by Mr. Thomas, it was based on the
minions song. This song was practiced hundreds of times, and it was
super perfect. If you didn’t know, we had sun glasses on when we did
“Happy.” It ended perfectly.

The last one was "Totoro." This was also practiced multiple times, and
it was the only performance that included all of us to play an instrument.
Grade 5 did melodica. When it ended, we were all so relieved. Overall,
it was a great performance.

That’s it for the blog! Thank you so much SIS families for reading our
grade 5 blog, and we’ll meet you in the next week. Have a wonderful week!

-Written by grade 5 students

Grade 2 New Term

Grade 2 students had fun singing their song at the winter performance. Many felt really nervous but all their practice and hard work paid off! Great job!

Students enjoyed their time off and are ready to get back to work. In math, we reviewed place value and played place value games with their classmates.

On Friday, we read with our preschool buddies :)

Week 1 Term 2 Learner Profile

We are now focusing on "inquiry" for our PYP Learner Profile. We listened to the story "How I Learned Geography" in our morning meeting. Can you imagine if your father brought back a rolled up map instead of a baguette (loaf of bread) to your starving family. Well, that's what happened in this story. At first, the child was angry at his parent. After a while, however, the child could forget about his hunger and imagine he was eating different foods from around the world. The map made him forget about his problems and focus on geography. 

Week 1 Term 2 Upper PE

We have new soccer goals for our classes! 

In addition to the goals, SIS has new lines courtesy of Mr. Vamig, Mr. Tekin and the administration. 

Grade 4 Term 2 Week 1

Inquiry

We have started the unit of our second term back – it is all about how we express ourselves. We are looking at how our own beliefs and values influence our personal expression. This week we have been looking at different styles of art from around the world. We have looked particularly at pop art.  Our class tried to recreate some Andy Warhol inspired pictures. First we took a picture of our faces and then traced them. Then we painted them in different bold and bright colors. After that we copied a series of our portraits and designed them in different bright colors.

We had lots of fun.

Language

This week we have been expanding our language and vocabulary by exploring how we can write about art. We have developed our language and learnt about the different ways we can talk about a piece of artwork.  We wrote about what people used to create art like lines, form, texture and shape. We used this language in order to explain and give our opinions on famous paintings. We had to choose from 7 choices. We wrote what we saw, how we felt, and who was the artist.

PSPE

We practiced how to play soccer. We learned how to kick a ball up. Then we played the game.  We had lots of fun and learned a lot about soccer.

 Math

This week we are starting to look at patterns in mathematics, in particular those linked to our times tables. We played a game to help us revise our number facts. We had a dice and rolled it 2 times and multiplied them, marking off a number on a bingo board. The person who had 4 numbers in a row won. Everyone enjoyed it. We then looked at patterns using shapes and made our own. After that we began to look at patterns using numbers and a hundred square.

Grade 6 Term 2 Week 1 beginning 1.6.20

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all had a lovely break and I wish you the best of luck for the year ahead. Below are some images from the Winter Performance. All the students done a fantastic job and I hope you all enjoyed the show.

Meanwhile back in class Grade 6 have been planning our new How We express Ourselves Unit. We will be exploring Music Media and Me.

Students brainstormed the different concepts for our unit and developed these ideas into our lines of Inquiry. This unit aims to be very self directed with students taking charge of their planning and organizing themselves toward a summative assessment over the next 4 weeks.









Some of our first activities included composing simple rhythm patterns and joining in with others.

Music winter performance 2019

Happy New Year!

Welcome back from your winter break!

Everyone in SIS did an amazing job in Term 1 and performed at Curian Hall so well!

I am very proud of our students.

Please click the play icon to view the performance

It`s a small world

Happy

Totoro

Term 2 Week 1 Library

We decided to decorate our Library with the character of Peter Pan and include the story line. Peter Pan's shadow was caught by a dog.   

Some younger groups were read the story "Good Night, Gorilla." The librarian talked about characters and settings with the students. 

Our Library now has books hanging from the branches. Another name for book pages are called leaves. The purpose of the exhibit is to encourage the children to read. Of course our books are made out of Styrofoam and are very lightweight.