Winding up to our Performance!

While some students may be winding down, our students are winding up.  Our culminating activity for this Unit of Inquiry, Sharing the Planet, will be on Wednesday, June 6 at 1:00.  This "secret" performance has been taken days and days to prepare.  We are hard at work rehearsing and the students are excited to have parents as the audience.  They will do some dress rehearsals in the morning to other grades.

Following the performance, the 3P students will present their final passion hour exhibition at about 1:30.  This of course is followed by our class party, with Mr Matt's grade 3 class, at 2:00 near the fish pond.

While we have been preparing for a performance, it has also included much reflection about certain issues connected to natural and finite resources.  For example, while almost all students understand that cutting down rainforests have a negative effect on the environment, there has also been recognition that the work provided to local workers feeds families, and helps to builds hospitals and schools.  The students are building empathy and additional perspectives for various ethical issues.  In short, they are learning that sometimes, there are no easy answers.  Similarly, they have compiled a very innovative list of many ways they can take responsible action for the way we live.  Examples range from wearing cloths more than once, to turning the water off when brushing their teeth, to refrain from using straws in restaurants--all in the hopes to helping to sustain the earth's finite natural resources.

Last week we managed to visit a grade 10 design class, to give them some feedback on their products.  The boys and girls were very engaged.  They were particularly interested in the 3D printer.

In literacy, they are completing their guiding reading and book reports. We have been reflecting in their living learning journals.

In Math class, we have been reviewing how to find perimeter and area of shapes.  Next week we will finalize our math research with an investigation into capacity/volume.

See the pictures below!