We got it started!

Yesterday was the official opening to the exhibition! All the students went to the Little Gym to hear a welcome message from Miss Isabel and watch videos of the exhibition from the years 2007 and 2008. Two students from sixth grade also came to the assembly to answer questions from this year's grade five students. The questions were great and the sixth grade students really showed exactly how powerful and successful the exhibition is in their learning. It was a great assembly and everyone left excited and ready....to get it started!

Take a look at the slideshow of the pictures on the right hand side of the blog!

Miss Jessica

starting off!!!!

Nosotros nos sentimos muy nerviosos por hacer la exhibición porque podemos aprender muchas cosas nuevas y ver como viven otros niños, menos afortunados pero también estamos emocionados y motivados a seguir adelante en este proyecto.
5°B :).....

Online Resources for Children's Rights

Welcome back from winter vacations, everyone! Now that we're back, the real fun with exhibition starts! We are going to start investigating the topic more and more and really dig into what each of you finds the most interesting about Children's Rights and how you can take action on this topic.

To get started, there are lots of websites listed on the right hand side of the blog. I wanted to make sure you looked at two really good ones, however. The first is this website from the Chilean government which is really student friendly and uses cartoons to explain the rights of children here in Chile. Take a look by clicking here: Consejo Zona Niños

The second site is this great website from UNICEF which showcases cartoons that were made about each of the various children's rights that were agreed upon by the UN. They are great to watch and really explain what each right is all about. I posted one earlier about education when we first chose our topic. Here's another preview to get you interested:



Take a look at all of them by clicking here: UNICEF Cartoons ***This will link you to the UNICEF site on You Tube so please be sure to ask permission from your parents before you go out onto the web***

What did you think about them? I would love to hear if you liked them and what questions you have now that you have seen them.

Looking forward to your comments,
Miss Jessica

A Guest Speaker is Coming!

Yes, that's right!  We've found a guest speaker to come and discuss the topic of Children's Rights with the whole grade level.  We've organised for Saúl Schkolnik, a children's book author, to come and discuss the topic with you.  Mr. Schkolnik has written a book of stories about the rights of children.  (Click on the title of this post above to go to a link about his book.)

Below is some information about Mr. Schkolnik from the following website: http://www.biblioredes.cl/BiblioRed/Nosotros+en+Internet/escritores+de+san+felipe/SAÚL+SCHKOLNIK  

Saul Schkolnik

Nacido en 1929. Cuentista. Diversos premios. Sus obras han sido publicadas en España y Latinoamérica. Miembro de la IBBY-Chile. Está radicado en la zona de Aconcagua, hace varios años. Ejerce como profesor de Filosofía en el Colegio Alemán de San Felipe y Cervantino de Putaendo. Hace algunos años se ha transformado en vecino de Aconcagua.

He will be coming to speak to the grade level on Thursday 30 July at 2:00 pm.  To get ready for this guest speaker, visit the links above and think about some questions that you might like to ask him.  Some questions to think about are:  Why did he pick children's rights?  Where did he get the inspiration for each of the stories about the rights?  Does he think that children can make a difference at their young age?

I look forward to hearing your questions and meeting the author with you!

 

Miss Jessica 

We did it! We wrote our Central Idea!

Yesterday the students discussed with their class the concepts and knowledge that were found within the exhibition topic of children's rights. After their discussions, the students were encouraged to complete the application form in their journals to be part of the central idea writing team. Today the teachers chose 2-3 students from those who submitted applications to represent their class and sent them to the PYP coordinator to work on writing the central idea for the exhibition this year.

The students started writing the central idea by discussing the "big concepts" that were included under the topic of children's rights. This included ideas such as basic needs, education, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, happiness as a child, safety, etc. After gathering everyone's ideas, the students worked together to combine all of the important concepts into one broad statement that would be the central idea. They also discussed and debated the transdisciplinary theme that best fit the topic and central idea and agreed that Who We Are is the theme that was most appropriate this year. They felt very strongly that this was the best theme because the whole exhibition is going to be about them as children, which is what they are.

After writing the central idea the students worked together to rate it using a checklist for central ideas. When the central idea was checked and approved by everyone they copied it into their Exhibition Journals as the "official" central idea for the 2009 exhibition!

Central Idea

All children have the right to happiness, basic needs, and opportunities which need to be respected responsibly by families, communities, and governments.

The students did a great job and I was so impressed with their ideas and discussions. I can tell that this is going to be a GREAT exhibition with lots of really deep questioning and thinking this year!

What are your thoughts on the new central idea? Does it bring any questions to mind? How do you see yourself investigating this central idea?

Have a great winter break and I can't wait to investigate this further in two weeks!

Miss Jessica

Exhibition Topic Chosen!

Well, the wait is over! The grade five students picked their exhibition topic and it is Children's Rights. There are so many various ideas and actions that the students can follow! I think it is going to be a great topic and one that is going to be interesting and relevant to all the students of the grade level.

To start exploring this topic, view the videos with this post. These are two videos to get you thinking about Children's Rights and what might be included in this topic.





In addition, there are a few more links on the right hand side that you may want to explore about our new topic.

As always, have fun exploring, talk to others about what you are learning, and be sure to share what you're thinking through reflections and comments on this site.

Miss Jessica

exibition

Today we chose the Exhibiton topic for our level, our classe's was DISCRIMINATION. We voted and all the level chose Children's Rights that was 5D topic. We were upset that our topic didn't win but we are very exited to start EXHIBITION. 5B :)

Level Presentation of or Global issues and Exhibition vote

Today we chose the exhibition global issue. The exhibitin topic that we chose was children´s rights. We will be researching about this issue for the next 7 weeks. It wasn´t our class favorite global issue, but we will try to make an effort to motivate ourselves and show enthusiasm and work hard in our exhibition 2009.

Class 5A

Choosing our class topic

In this class we chose our class topic.The topics that you could choose were Animal Rights, Health (obesity, aids) ,Economy Crisis and Rasism.The topic who won was Health.We had a lot of fun this class !




Super 5A