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This unit was about Fractions & Decimals, and learning how to convert them into each other and percentages. In this unit, I think I would fall on a 2 on the stress and learning graph, because I didn’t understand […]

Strengths:

Drawing/Coloring the bird
Creating and describing the physical adaptations
Creating the name for the bird

Weaknesses:

Drawing/Coloring background
Time management
Creating and […]

In Humanities we are studying Shi Huang Di. I am looking at Health and Social Education because Shi Huang Di had a huge influence on China as a community and he changed Chinese education. His achievements had a […]

Environment and Human Ingenuity can come into conflict when there are two opposing parties that want the same thing, for example in “The Lorax” the Lorax and the Once-ler debated over the Truffula tree. The Lorax, […]

I think that this unit is related to Community and Service, because China is a community, and I don’t know much about Shi Huang Di but I know that he was an emperor or China and he is really important in Chinese […]

My group was given the topic of Human Ingenuity. We came up with ideas such as building shelters to provide needs (food, water, etc.), medical clinics for the wounded and we also thought that they could build […]

Today was the Grade 7 transition. 6D went to a 7th grade classroom and we got a deeper understanding of what Grade 7 is like. I didn’t really think about it before, but I realized it is going to be a big change. […]

So far in the exhibition, my group has created the research questions, lines of inquiry and refined the purpose. We’re especially focusing on the evolution of social media throughout history, and how that has impacted how we live like today. I initially wanted to focus on social media websites like facebook, twitter and youtube, but [...]

Parents: What we learned about Karen (as a learner) is that she is quite inquisitive. PYP supports that process (of deep thinking). Nice to see.  Her strengths are her ability to grasp and formulate concepts and work them out. Her weakness is her discipline and lack of organisational skills (at times). That hampers her occasionally. [...]

We just found out our exhibition groups! I’m happy because I got my first choice: social media. My group members are Annelien 6E, Vikram 6A and Alex 6B. I dont really know them, but I hope there are no fights or anything.

Yesterday I finished making my power mask. A power mask is basically mask that gives the wearer special powers. I made a mask that would make the wearer a perfect person. I did this mask simply because nobody’s perfect, so I wanted to have a mask that would create the perfect person. The mask itself is [...]

In remembrance of Mr. Dick, the former principal of CDNIS, the entire school went to the Aberdeen Sports Ground and did a memorial walk. The goal was for every person to walk around the track a few times so the total length walked was equivalent to the length from one side of Canada to the other. Also, everybody [...]

In numeracy we’re doing a lot of algebra, and for the past few days the main thing we have been working on is number patterns. Number patterns are basically patterns a series of numbers that follow a certain rule. For example in this pattern: 7, 15, 31, 63, 127, the rule is x2+1 (7×2=14, 14+1=15) [...]

For the past month or so, there has been something called the geological timeline. The geological timeline is basically a graffiti wall starting at my class (6D) and ending at 6E. The part at my class represents the beginning of time, and the part at 6E represents the present. For part of our Summative Task [...]

Recently, a video called KONY 2012 went viral on youtube. It is about a man called Joseph Kony. He is a warlord in Uganda responsible for the enslavement of 30,000 children as child soldiers and sex slaves. “Invisible Children” is a campaign for his arrest. The aim is to make him famous, not in a good [...]

One of the PYP attitudes I have demonstrated is enthusiasm. In the past 2 weeks in PE we have been doing badminton, which is my favorite sport. I don’t get to play badminton a lot because there is not really a good place to play in Hong Kong, so it was especially fun. Also, I did it with my [...]

One of the learner profile attributes is thinker, and I think I have demonstrated that lately. In 6D, especially during Numeracy and Unit of Inquiry, we need to use our brains a lot, whether its completing worksheets, doing a project or taking a test. This can be very stressful at times, since it takes effort to push your [...]

Another activity in Math Menu is watching the  Reducing Fractions on BrainPop and explaining how to simplify fractions. Here is my explanation of simplifying fractions: 1. Find a common factor of the numerator and denominator. 2. Divide both the numerator and denominator by the common factor. 3. Keep on doing this until there are no more…[Read more]

One of the activities in the Math Menu was to take an online test at BBC’s Bitesize after reviewing the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages. Here are the results: