This week, on their return from the Vesak Day holiday, all Elementary students reflected on what they found calming. We also had three sessions with some Grade 4 students exploring the ISS value of being "open-minded". The students were encouraged to find a partner they didn't usually work with to: play a balloon game and share facts about their home country. In our Maths, the children explored time in various ways. They practised reading and saying times (using the vocabulary: quarter past, half past and quarter to). They showed times using small clocks, some were also able to convert analogue time to digital time and many chose to write time comic strips. In UOI, this week, we explored some of the consequences of imbalance within habitats. The students first came up with their own list of some of the things that they knew caused imbalance within habitats: deforestation, agriculture "taking land for farming", urbanisation "taking land for buildings", greenhouse gases, hunting, marine pollution. Later they researched and suggested possible solutions or things we could do to help. We ended the week by suggesting and selecting ways we could share our learning or take action. Here are the children's ideas:
UN Sustainable Development Goals: #13 Climate Change, #14 Life on Land, #15 Life Below Water The student actions support these goals. Student Voice: "We learnt from Grade 4 about how to be open-minded and I wrote that I will ask new people if I can play with them in the playground." Yuuki "This week was very fun because Grade 4 came to teach us about being open-minded." Hyuga Student Action: Some Grade 2 girls found an injured butterfly which they rescued and created a habitat for. They tried to save some of the eggs but the Tawny Coaster butterfly died. This led to some research about this animal and its habitat.
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