Fantastic First Week.

B-I-N-G-O! 
A fun ice-breaker for our class. A simple, but fun, way for everyone to get to know each other.

Paper-Planes

Next came the Paper-Plane activity. For this activity each student made their own plane and wrote down 1 lie and 2 truths about themselves on the planes, but they were not to write their names. After this they had to fly the paper planes around the class room for 60 seconds, and then each child picked a plane belonging to someone else. The students had to read out the three statements written on the plane and the rest of the class had to guess who the plane belonged to as well as which statement was a lie.  

Our Essential Agreements 
We discussed and came up with the Essential Agreements for 4Y.

Attributes & Attitudes After being paired off, the students refreshed their memories and discussed the importance of the attributes of the IB Learner Profile. They matched the attributes to the respective attitudes and then were asked to explain why they made the matches. The discussion was voracious and in the end the students realized that all the attributes and attitudes are related in some way or the other. 

Transdisciplinary Themes

Each group was given one TD Theme for which they showed their understanding of the  same through a performance based task. The other groups had to guess what the TD Theme was. 

UNIT OF INQUIRY

TD Theme 'WHO WE ARE'

The students worked in groups and came up with their understanding of the strands of the TD Theme 'WHO WE ARE'. Each group worked on one strand of the TD Theme and shared their understanding with the rest of the class.

Provocation to the unit - This was done through a 'Find your Partner' activity. Each student was given a strip with a group of words. The students then had to find their partners to complete the sentences related to health. This was followed by a class discussion on the sentences leading to five factors that affect our health, i.e., Food, Hygiene, Exercise, Rest and Recreation.