THE EXHIBITION IS DONE!!

But that does not mean all the work is done.

Today, Mr. Woods, a PYP coordinator at our school gave a presentation about taking action. The whole Grade 6 has to take action as it a part of the inquiry cycle which all of us followed during the exhibition. The inquiry cycle includes Tuning In, Finding Out, Sorting Out, Going Further, Drawing Conclusions and Taking Action. Action can be anything from a protests handing out flyers.

I investigated into medical advances and I am planing to make some info-graphics about sleeping because not sleeping well can harm your body. I am going to inform people about this and put the posters up in classrooms. I am currently working on it and hopefully it will be done by the end of next week! 

I think my action is currently on the 5-6 on the ladder of participation.  Five being consulted and informed and six is adult initiated, shared decisions with children. I think this is not the highest type of action so I will try and make it higher along the way by adding more ideas.

Here is a picture of the ladder of participation:

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It has been a while since I have posted! Hope everybody had a great easter holiday!

This year my family and I went to Beijing. We saw many amazing things such as the Great Wall Of China, The Forbidden City, The Summer Palace and many more. I had a lot of fun and it was a really good experience. I had to speak mandarin as we learn it in school. That was not an easy task but I managed to get my family around town. We ate a lot of Sichuan food as my family and I love sichuan food and spicy food.

The Great Wall has two main sides Mu Tian Yu the one we went to and Ba Da Ling. The view in Mu Tian Yu was absolutely amazing! I had never seen something so scenic and great like this.

Here is a picture of the Mu Tian Yu side of the Great Wall:

Another thing I saw was the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City  is where the emperor lived. It was very big and lots of it was preserved. I was lucky enough to meet Pu Yi, the last emperor of China’s nephew. He did calligraphy for us. It was really amazing!

Here is a picture of the Forbidden City:

Another tourist attraction I went to is the Birds Nest and the Water Cube. Most of you will know that the 2008 Beijing Olympics were held at the Birds Nest and the aquatics events where held at the water cube. We got too go  in and see where the athletes competed.

Here are the pictures of the Birds Nest (top) and the Water Cube (bottom)

The other places I visited are the Summer Palace, the Temple Of Heaven and the Great Hall Of The People. All these sites were unique and were amazing in their own different ways.

The pictures below are of the  Summer Palace (#1), the Temple Of Heaven (#2) and the Great Hall Of The People(#3 and #4).

If you are going to Beijing, I strongly recommend you visit these sites. This was a really fun trip and I hope I can go back to Beijing some time soon!!

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Arguments, research and chaos. Those were just some things that happened in the preparation for the exhibition this week.

From this week until the exhibition, we will be focusing on their investigations during class time. We will continue with Math every day as well as specialist classes, until the schedule is collapsed after the break. At that time, we will be working all day investigating, going on field trips, interviewing, collecting data in a variety of ways, as well as beginning to plan our Exhibition booth. There are only 11 days of class before ALL work needs to be completed! This is going to be one hard job!

Today we starting tuning into the world of chance and probability. We will be working on Probability for the next few weeks for math. Personally, I really like probability because it is fun and you can do a lot of fun activities.

This week we did thinking about my learning.Thinking about my learning is choosing something you did this week. Some examples are I self-assessed, I was eager and enthusiastic and I managed my time well. There are many others too. This week I made a plan. I planned out my speech by gathering advice from my peers and teachers. 

Pic of the week:

Playing the math game Add Slap.

Overall, this has been a really tense week and we have bee working really hard!!!

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Recently, my teacher Ms. Sandul shoed us a video of a guy called Matt Harding. Matt quit his job and went around the world and danced with people to put a smile on their face.

Here is a video of him around the world in 2012:

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This game will help you find out your traveller Iq. It is a fun game!

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This is a video of Mr. MacPherson getting pied.

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This week flew by but we had a busy week.

First we got put into our exhibition groups. My group is researching medical advances. We started choosing our central idea and we came up with an essential agreement. Next week, we will choose our concepts and start researching into our issue.

This week swimming started. We were all very happy (not)! We now have NO P.E for the next month as we have to do swimming.

In Math, today we had a test on our fractions, decimals and percentages. We also worked on some adding decimals this week.

This week there were some really fun events!

Firstly, there was Pi Day.

Some 6A students brought pies to share with the class!  What an amazing assortment of pies!! There were chocolate pies, apple pies, coconut pies and pork pies.

On Thursday, four people had pies thrown in their face! Congratulations to Mr Hughes, Mr MacPherson, Mr Reynolds and Ms Kinsinger who had the most money in their boxes. They got a pie in their face. The whole crowd watching was cheering and laughing.

This week, there was also Pancake and Pajama day where we got to dress in our pajamas and eat pancakes. YAY!!

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Today, we had a math quiz and then practiced for World Math Day. We placed first in the world!!!! We are awesome. Of course, with all the classes in different countries who knows what the result could be in a few hours!

Here is a pic:

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It’s been a short week!! Monday and Tuesday we did not have school. This week the desks were arranged differently and we could sit where ever we want! That’s great right? Not exactly. We have do desk to put our things in. At the end of everyday, we have to take all our stuff and take it home.

This week in math, we worked on some operations with fractions worksheets. Some of them were very easy( adding, subtracting) and some were quite hard (comparing and adding sequence).

In UOI, we did an activity with multiple tasks. We had to identify the criteria for a good public space and show how good public spaces follow that criteria. We also had to assess the floor plan for our Grade 6 area. We had to say if it followed the criteria or not and why or why not. We will be continuing this today.

We also started World Maths Day. So far I have been doing quite well. I have beaten my friends Anthony and Daren!

In P.E we started badminton. We first started with the basics and serves and then went on to play a match(singles and doubles). I beat Daren and I drew with Anthony. Overall, it was really really fun!!

Pic Of The Week:

Working on our math fraction sheets.

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