G5 Non-native PYP Unit "Persuaders"
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G5 Non-native class studied how to make an advertisement in Japanese for their PYP Unit “Persuaders".
G5 Non-native クラスでは PYP Unit “Persuaders” と関連して、日本語の広告を作る学習をしました。
G3 Native 俳句作り Creating Haiku Poems
Related to PYP Unit, G3 learned “Haiku", one style of Japanese poetry.
PYP Unit “Artist Within"の一環として、G3日本語クラスでは俳句を取り上げました。
How do words change?
私は学校に行きます。 私は学校に行きません。 私は学校に行きますか？
彼は学校に行きまっす。 彼は学校に行きましぇん。 彼は学校に行きやすか？
I know the Japanese sentences above look strange to many people. English translation is as follows;
I go to school. / I don’t go to school. / Do I go to school?
He goes to school. / He doesn’t go to school. / Does he go to school?
In English, words change according to subjects (I, he), and I tried to show the change in Japanese sentences above. But obviously,it didn’t work as this change doesn’t happen in Japanese language (and some other languages), and this is what many students find hard. In ESL they have been leaning how to match up subjects and verbs. Grade 3/4 students have been focusing on negative sentences and are moving on to questions. It is not easy and can be quite confusing for some students, but they are all trying hard. They will need to keep revising and practicing and I am sure they will. Keep up the good work!! 
"Encounters with the Sacred"
Dear parents and community,
“Encounters with the Sacred” is our new unit of inquiry and its central idea is:
Systems of belief affect communities and individual lives.
The students will inquire into:
- The range of world religions and their beliefs,
- The part religion plays in communities,
- Historical case studies.
Related to our unit of inquiry our mathematics will be focussing on data handling (mean, median, mode and range, interpreting graphs, stem and leaf graphs, pie charts, and probability).
Our writing focus for this unit of inquiry will be Narrative writing. Narrative writing is story telling through the use of an orientation; complication; series of events; resolution and a reorientation. The students are reading (and discussing) some excellent examples of narrative writing and will hopefully be able to show more creative writing skills through this genre of writing. Students will be applying this knowledge through the use of storyboards and written stories, which will focus on a individual religion.
We will be going on two field trips this month to focus on the way some religions are similar and different to each other. A letter explaining the format of these field trips will be sent home early next week.
Parents, remember that the best way to help your child with all of this learning is to simply ask questions that get them to reflect on what they have done and what they have achieved. Their skills of creativity, inquiry and respect will be further developed through this unit of inquiry.
Week 18: Yuwa's perspective
In P.E. we experimented with our heart rates. When we were doing our experiments we found our resting pulse rate. Then we did an energetic activity to see what our pulse rate was after the activity finished. When we were resting our heart rate was around 90 to 100 beats per minute, but after the activity it was up around 100 to 150.
In art we continued making the deep sea creatures. We started added materials, like thin metal bars, to our deep sea creature because improve what our piece of paper mache looks like.
In Japanese we started working on a story called “Waragutsu no naka no kamisama”. In this story a primary school girl was skiing all day and if her ski shoes did not dry, her grandmother said “wears the waragustu for the day”. Then she starts telling the girl the story of herself in the past. A waragutsu is a pair of shoes made from straw.
In maths, we started learning angles and volume. When learning about volume, we did some activities where we had to work out and find out how much water can fit into a box, we built some houses with cubes, and measured the weight and area of some big textbooks. For learning about angles we played some maths computer games, solved some missing angles in triangles and circles and learnt the names of all the different types of angles!
In I.T. we started making a new logo and a new slogan for Hiroshima International School.
In music class we watched and heard our classmate’s recorder skills when they played a new piece of music.
On Friday the Grade 3 and 4 class had an assembly. We were grouped together because there were lots of different experiments about the senses. I was grouped with Alex, Yuina, Lily (G2) and Sayako (Foundation class), and Alex and Yuina made us smell toothpaste, lip creams and perfume because they wanted to know how good our smelling senses were.
The highlight of the week was P.E. because we learnt about heart rates. I had to count how many beats there were and do some maths by multiplying my heart rate by 2 after counting my pulse for thirty seconds. We had to multiple our heart rate to change it from seconds to minutes.
The biggest challenge for the week was doing our final assessment task presentation. In our presentation we had to present our group’s logo, slogan, and our commercial.
Next week I am looking forward to starting a new unit, like a technology unit, with lots of fun experimenting.
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