We did it!

Wow! What an exciting night we had!  The exhibition evening was a complete success!  We had many, many parents come during exhibition evening as well as many teachers, principals, mentors and friends of the community in Santiago.  We had a great time sharing all of our learning with everyone!

The students were very well prepared as we spent the Tuesday and Wednesday during the day presenting to all of the students of the school.  We had the grade 3 and 4 students come and visit the grade five classes and give great feedback to each of the presentation groups.  We also took our boards to the grade 1 and 2 classes and gave a short version of the presentations to practice using our English with different types of audiences.  On Wednesday afternoon each of the grade five classes had been able to see the other grade five presentation as well.  By the time it was the evening on Wednesday the students had practiced their presentations at least 4 different times.  They were ready and it showed! :)

Some of the highlights of the evening were the following:

• Listening and watching the student created exhibition song (with voice change effects from Garage Band and recorded on an iPad) via an animoto short 

• Listening and watching two grade five students explain the overall process of our exhibition to the parents and visitors

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• Seeing the various specialist integrations that the students collaborated on especially the recycled artworks and mobiles with discarded technology and the virtual wailing wall from the religion classes

• Watching the students present to their parents in the classrooms with amazing confidence, knowledge and understanding

• Seeing the parents and visitors participating in asking questions, giving feedback via google forms and QR codes and leaving "love notes" on the grafitti wall

It was an amazing end to a great unit! Thank you to all of the students, teachers, mentors, parents and visitors for helping us achieve such an amazing amount of learning and understanding in just 9 short weeks!

When we return from our holiday break, we will finish with the final stage of our inquiry process which is reflection.  We will post a few reflections when we return.

In the meantime, if you visited our exhibition, what was your favorite part of the evening?  Is there any additional feedback you would like to give?

Miss Jessica :)