Grade 4: Week 4 Who We Are

In Grade 4 after learning about what is a fixed mindset vs. a growth mindset, we are getting ready to do a case study to try and answer the question, "Do people succeed more with a growth mindset or a fixed mindset?" We would like to try and prove that what we have been learning is correct.  In order to first determine if our interview subjects have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset, the students developed questions that they could ask to help them determine this.  They did a great job and here are the ones they came up with. 

This next photo was not posed, but once I saw how engaged and interested all the students were in sharing their input, I had to ask them to freeze and take a photo! 

We've also been working on writing interesting/descriptive sentences and using dialogue in writing to prepare for our upcoming task of writing a story about success, challenge, and failure.  I'm really looking forward to seeing the stories that every creates!

Grade 6 Week 4 Who We Are

Grade 5 and 6 measured the diameter of a soccer ball in math class. A soccer ball is a truncated icosahedron. Our classes then figured out the circumference by measuring around the ball. After that, the boys took the circumference of the ball and divided by the diameter to come up with the value of pi (3.14). The students reversed their formula and multiplied pi by diameter to come up with the circumference. 

We also studied about mass, density and volume. We came up with some formulas that could be arranged to meet our needs. 

The class found out that the Volume is equal to the Mass divided by the Density. 

A pyramid helped us to memorize our formula better.

We have been making real life applications in our PYP Math with shapes to better our inquiry. Moritz has been finding out the hobbies of every grade level in our school to answer the question: "What aspects make up our identity?" He will use his integrity to make a chart to graph his data. Moritz found out that some of the children didn't know what a hobby was. So, he had to explain to people the definition and rephrase his question by saying "What do you like to do in the afternoon?" 

We added more shapes to our display and counted the faces, edges and vertices. 

Our action board is filling up with sayings, thinking and doings.

Grade 5 Week 4 Who We Are

Grade 5 and 6 measured the diameter of a soccer ball in math class. A soccer ball is a truncated icosahedron. Our classes then figured out the circumference by measuring around the ball. After that, the boys took the circumference of the ball and divided by the diameter to come up with the value of pi (3.14). The students reversed their formula and multiplied pi by diameter to come up with the circumference. 

We also studied about mass, density and volume. We came up with some formulas that could be arranged to meet our needs. 

The class found out that the Volume is equal to the Mass divided by the Density. 

A pyramid helped us to memorize our formula better.

We have been making real life applications in our PYP Math with shapes to better our inquiry. Moritz has been finding out the hobbies of every grade level in our school to answer the question: "What aspects make up our identity?" He will use his integrity to make a chart to graph his data. Moritz found out that some of the children didn't know what a hobby was. So, he had to explain to people the definition and rephrase his question by saying "What do you like to do in the afternoon?" 

We added more shapes to our display and counted the faces, edges and vertices. 

Our action board is filling up with sayings, thinking and doings.

Grade 2 Week 4: Who We Are

This week we  continued to discuss our class values. Each student chose a class value that is important to them to write about. We spent the week going through  the different steps of the the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing) to express our ideas on paper. Please stop by the Grade 2 classroom to read our work. 

Big face

We had fun, playing with our big face. We made different facial expressions, from angry, sad and happy.