The Survival Island Camp 15th September 2016

The Survival Island Camp

What an amazing experience for the students. The children certainly enjoyed all aspects of this adventure. 

Before I begin sharing lots of photos and stories, I would like to acknowledge Ibu Mersy, Ms Ali, Pak Sam and the security guys for making this possible.

Ava making friends with the wildlife

Working on building their bed for the night.

Done, already for night time.

Knot tying with Ms Ali - it is a lot harder than it looks until you have got it, then you wonder why you had some much trouble.

Ibu Mersy got it!

The girls got it!

Our amazing dinner - all the things that we would have found on a tropical island - fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and chicken.
Best bit - eating with our fingers, no plates, knives and forks to be found.

Putting our knot tying skills, hut designing and build techniques to use.

Finally, weaving for the walls and the roof of our shelters. Pretty awesome skills. I would be happy to be stranded with this group of kids.

Well done Grade 1 & 2

The Island

                 Grade 1 & 2 Camp

Thank you for allowing your child to come on this overnight adventure with myself and Ms Ali.

With Ms Ali, Ibu Mersy and Ms Megan helping in different role and chores, We do not need any extra help.

Please remember that we are creating a deserted island scenario and will try to imagine the difficulties that we would face should this be real. 

With this in mind, I have selected only a few items for the children to bring along.

• ·         1 set of old clothes (that can get dirty) Pants, t-shirt, underwear, socks, shoes and a sweat-shirt.
• ·         1 soft toy for bedtime
• ·         A torch
• ·         Pillow, bed sheet and sleeping bag or bed cover
• ·         Tooth brush and tooth paste.
• ·         Swimmers and a towel.

No electronics or sweets please.

Our adventure starts after school activities on Thursday afternoon. 

Our adventure starts after school activities on Thursday afternoon.

Children will be involved in a range of activities including swimming, hut making, knot tying, weaving, food preparation and co-operation games. They will make their beds in the hall and meal preparation and eating will be in the eating area of school.

On Friday, all activities including Bahasa Indonesia, Swimming and Music will be held at Ms Ali, Ms Megan and Ms Donna’s house next to school.

For catering and collection of resources, we need to have your permission forms in ASAP. (Found in your child's homework folder)

Mid-term 1 Newsletter

Grade 1 & 2 Mid-term Newsletter
How quickly this first term is going. The children have settled into class well and are getting used to the new class dynamics, expectations and routines. I am really enjoying their attitudes to learning, enthusiasm and behavior.

Our first units of work are slowly coming to an end. We have looked at simple machines, how they work and the way in which they make things easier. The Olympics enabled us to learn about why and how these games came about, it also has given us the opportunity to look at the human body – making tin and paper mache athletics. In mathematics we have been exploring addition and subtraction, numbers to 100, doubling and halving strategies.

Our Unit of Inquiry’s central idea is:
People create organizations to solve problems and support human endeavor and enterprise

Using a ‘survival’ on a desert island scenario, the students are learning how to light a fire, build a shelter, and find water and food. So I am hoping that you have been having some interesting conversations.

With this ‘scenario’ in mind, I would like to have an overnight camp with the class on Thursday 15^th September. We will sleep in the school hall. The evening will involve games, hut building, swimming and camp fire stories. We would prepare our own night meal and breakfast from the food available on our ‘island’.

Your feedback would be greatly appreciated so that the planning can be confirmed. We may also need a couple of volunteers.

Just some housekeeping now.

Swimming will continue until the end of the term and we will see what the weather is like and decide if it will continue in term 2.

We have a number of students that are coming in at or after 8am in the morning, they are missing an important part of the morning. If it is possible to have everyone in class at 7:45am it would be much appreciated.

Lastly, with many thanks to Ibu Mercy, we have refreshed and added images and captions to our class blog of our learning so far this year. So please check it out – your kids are awesome.

As always, if you do have any concerns or question please let me know. Enjoy your long weekend.   Ms Ali, Ms Megan and I are heading to Jogjakarta to explore some more of this beautiful country.

Kind regards Ms Donna aka The Cat in the Hat

Build A Shelter

Building a shelter.

After being arriving on our island, we now have to design and build a shelter.

What resources do we have?
Where is the safest place to build?
Why is it important to build something to shelter in?
How do we build a shelter?

The design and construction process proved very different and we had to get creative to complete the shelter building project.

Making A Fire

What are the 3 things fire needs?

Air, heat and fuel

What happens when one of those things are removed?

Creating heat by using friction.

Olympic

Timelines and historical events connected to the Olympic games

Unit 1 - How We Organize Ourselves

Transdisciplinary Theme 

HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES

Central Idea 

People create organization to solve problems and support human endeavor and  enterprise.

Lines of Inquiry

- Why people join organizations

- Purpose of organizations

- What makes a successful organizations

The Island - You are your best hope.

You are about to head off on your dream vacation, your bags are pack with all of you favorite  things. What could possibly go wrong?

Packing time - What should I take? My i-pad? Do I need any toys? So looking forward to my dream vacation. 

Make The Ten

Making Tens - a challenging game of quick addition skills. 

Remy has 6 - is he able to make 10 with the cards that he has?

Pramiti and Ava set up to do battle, who has the quickest addition facts knowledge?

Tin Man

The Olympics Rio 2016

What an amazing world event, where the finest athletics compete for their countries.

In class and to help us learn about sports, sportsmanship and the human body we are making sculptures. 

We begin by taking a square piece of tin foil.

Ava, it isn't that hard. Cut and gently press together each piece, shaping the head, and body. The the arms and legs.

Just like so - the running man.

Now, our turn. Great start Kaitlin.

Beginning of School

Welcome to the 2016/17 academic year.

Ibu Mercy and I are pleased to have a new group of students joining our Grade 2 students - Nasya, Kyle and Yunchae.

Ava, Kaitlin, Zo, Remy, Dinov, Pramiti and Janvi make up this awesome group of learners.

So let's begin by creating some art and posters to help us all learn about ourselves and how to learn in our great classroom and school.

5th Unit Of Inquiry - Sharing the Planet

Transdisciplinary Theme

Sharing the Planet

An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities ; peace and conflict resolution.

Central Idea

People have a responsibility towards practices that sustain and maintain our local environment

Title
Reuse, Recycle, and Reduce

Lines of inquiry :

• Our local natural environment
• Personal choices that help sustain the environment
• Reusing and recycling different materials

Key Concepts: Responsibility, Connection
Transdisciplinary Skills: Social, Self-Management, Research

Learner Attitudes: Appreciation, Commitment, Cooperation, Integrity, Respect

Learner Profile: Thinkers, Principled, Caring, Reflective, Courages

Under The Microscope

We put different kind of leaves under the microscope.
We can see that each of them has a lot of small holes on it surface.
We agreed that they use those small holes to breath.

Beansprout

We observing how beansprout grow.
  We put cotton inside the plastic pack, sprinkle some water and put some beansprout on it.
We learned that living things like beansprout need some water, air and sun to grow and live.