How We Express Ourselves

Our final unit of inquiry is focusing on: 

How we Express Ourselves

The unit is an inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of the aesthetic.

The central Idea is:

Powerful art engages the audience and invites a response.

The lines of Inquiry are:

·         Forms and elements of art,

·         How the arts are interconnected

·         Ways in which different people interpret the arts

We began this unit by viewing a storybook of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and then responding in writing as to how it made us feel. We learnt about many instruments in the orchestra. 

Next we watched an animated version of the story which had a different setting and a slightly different ending. Children were asked to compare and contrast the two stories . We discussed how both the book and animation were one artist's response to another type of powerful art.
We also responded to the music by making our our moving shadow puppets.

Erosion

We are collecting small plant so ELC 1 - 2 can use them later - Ye Seo

We are cleaning the garden for ELC 1 and 2. They want to use the garden to plant some plants. Max

I am planting some kemangi seeds, so we can have some new young plants. Yoni

We took out the weed from our garden. Nico

We transplant the baby tomato plant so it doesn't get destroy. Amanda

We found some earthworms. They are good to the soil. Hasna

We are doing science experiment-erosion. We built 2 mountains. one without trees and the other one with lots of trees. Maia

We pour some water to both of the mountains to find out what happen with them. The mountain without tress went down easily and the mountain with lots of trees went down slower. Tama

Rainforest Structure

Creating a big poster on the rainforest.

We are labelling the rainforest structure.

Student Led Conference

Sign Poster

We made posters about our research on different types of communication systems.

Earth Day

We used Earth Day to do some experiements to find out what materials were biodegradable.