Great Happenings In Grade 5A

Unit of Inquiry

As previously posted, we started our new PYP- Unit of Inquiry on Ancient Civilizations.

Students wrote on sticky notes what they previously knew about civilizations and ancient civilizations. The major question we had was "what is civilization?"

Sonal:   I think civilization is a group of living things which live together.

Maya:   Civilization is a place to live.  Examples:   cities, houses, neighbourhood, country.

Sudiksha:   I think that ancient civlization is about ancient times or about people from before.

We then rewrote the central idea to our understanding. 

Before we rewrote the central idea, we needed to find and define the key words. 

Original Central Idea:   Evidence of past civilizations can be used to make connections to present-day societies. 

Samples from our rewritten central idea:

 Most of us are new to learning about ancient civilizations. We took the next step to investigate our vocabulary words. Not only did we define the vocabulary words, but we also drew its meaning.

We decided to get some exposure to various ancient civilizations from free reading various books. Some of us took the extra step to take notes from our learning.

Book Club

As we are starting the unit of inquiry, ancient civilization, we are focusing on the myths reading genre and develop our inferring skills by drawing conclusions from text. 

We took a period to read the Greek myth, The Boy Who Flew Too High, outside under our school's sakura tee. 

More to come next week!