News Week of 24 October, 2016

PYP 8 News

Week of 24th of October, 2016

Dear Parents, We have been very focused on the PYP 8 exhibition this past week. Most of you attended the parents meeting which included a chance for your child to show you the work they have been doing in regards to finding their passions, getting into their groups and beginning to start researching. We spent a considerable amount of time last Wednesday in a workshop with students explaining how to turn their ideas and passions into a Central Idea. For many groups the Central Ideas are final and will be used to focus and define their research. A few groups are still going to continue to work on their Central idea, tweaking words and phrases, to help aid in clarity and understanding. The next step in the Exhibition process is to start writing lines of inquiry that will further guide our research. For further reference, here are the google slides from the PYP 8 exhibition parent´s meeting - PYP 8 Exhibition - parents meeting slides

Our work in Class… This week we are looking forward to a PYP8 Beta assembly where they will be presenting their work on Isaac Newton and his 3 laws of motion. This is work all the classes in PYP 8 have been doing and have been presenting to their classmates. This work has been influencing their Rube Goldberg Machines, nonsensical machines that use materials such as marbles, dominoes and ramps to demonstrate the laws of motion. We will continue to work on understanding the Scientific Method this week, including forming a hypothesis based on an observation in nature and designing an experiment to test and prove this hypothesis. This will link in with developing further research skills to back up their hypothesis with scientific evidence. Since our work with the exhibition took over a lot of our time last week, we will be catching up with math skills and getting back into the swing of reading on a regular basis and developing good reading habits and comprehension skills.

Things to remember, coming up…. Wednesday 26th October: Half day - Teacher´s professional development afternoon Monday 31st October: Halloween dress up Wednesday 2nd November: All souls day - No School Thursday 3rd November: EYs and Primary parent coffee Friday 11th November - Remembrance day - Poppies on sale