We have a topic!

What a great morning! The students from each of the classes presented their ideas for this year's exhibition topic.  Every class gave a 3-5 minute presentation on the topic of their choice for the whole grade level to consider.  Each class presented the idea, why it was important, the impact the topic had globally, and ideas for action from the students.

This year the presentations were:

5A: Sports

5B: Conflict

5C: Creativity

5D: Education

5E: Discrimination

All of the presentations were very thorough and interesting and after a difficult vote, the grade level chose DISCRIMINATION as their topic of interest for this year!

Now we will begin thinking about the types of discrimination that we encounter in our personal contexts and how we can take action to stop discrimination from happening around us.

Do you have some ideas about what types of discrimination you are interested in learning more about?  In what ways could you use the topics from our vote to explore more about discrimination?  Are there any "hidden" types of discrimination that we should inquire about?

Looking forward to your thoughts!

The Misses of Grade 5

We got it started!

We had our first meeting with the students of the grade level for exhibition today!  We "Got it Started!" by listening to Miss Isabel give a welcome, receiving advice from the 6th grade students who completed the exhibition last year, and watching a video of last year's exhibition.

This is the powerpoint of our opening ceremony with exhibition ideas from previous years:

Here's the video of last year's exhibition.  Take a look at all of the technology they discovered around them!

Now it's your turn to "get it started" by reflecting on our first presentation.  What was your favorite part of the opening ceremony?  What should we include in the opening ceremony for next year's students?  What should we leave out?

We look forward to hearing what you think!
The Misses of Grade 5


PowerPoint Source:  Jessica Allen
Video Source:  Luis Sepulveda

Time to start Exhibition 2012!

We've all been waiting and now it is here!  It's time to start Exhibition 2012 and we are all excited to see what interesting topic we will be investigating this year!  As part of the Exhibition experience, the teachers and students will be documenting their process, learning and thinking through this blog and many other types of media.  We encourage all of you to read this blog with your families at home, participate in the polls and questions and leave comments on the blog posts.

To begin, look through the sites that are given in the box on the right for some ideas about important global issues that are happening today. After reading some of the sites, be sure to answer the poll question showing what you might be interested in investigating this year.  Finally, leave a comment on this post and share any other ideas you may have for our exhibition topic.  We want to know what you think!

Think about an important global topic that is interesting to students YOUR AGE and one that students YOUR AGE can take action on.  What do you think our exhibition topic should be this year?

Looking forward to your thoughts!

The Misses of Grade 5

Photo Source:  Lightwise for 123RF

We're getting ready....

We're getting ready to start Exhibition 2011!  The teachers are already working hard to organize and prepare the beginning of the exhibition for this year.  One of the first important starting points is getting teachers organised to be mentors for the different exhibition groups in the classes.  To get teachers from around the school interested, we sent them this video to inform them and get them excited to help out.



It's only been one day and we've already received 5 requests to be mentors!  You can help us by talking to some of the teachers in the school and asking them to be mentors for exhibition.  The more mentors we have, the more support and help you will get during your inquiries!

What do you think of the video?  Do you think it encourages teachers to help us out with the exhibition?  What is something you could say to encourage teachers to help us?

Leave a comment below.  I look forward to hearing your ideas!
Miss Jessica

We got it started!

This past Tuesday we began the exhibition with an opening celebration.  At the opening assembly we had Miss Isabel speak to the students about the exciting time ahead of them.  We also had three sixth grade students come and tell their experiences of the exhibition and give advice to this year's grade five students.  At the end of the assembly the students watched two videos from previous exhibitions to get ideas for all the various ways they could present their learning.  At the end, everyone was excited and motivated to get it started!

Now that the exhibition has begun, what is something that you are excited to do during this unit?  Work in groups?  Write your own questions?  Pick your own topic?  Post a comment and let others know!

Great assembly everyone!
Miss Jessica

PS:  Check out the pictures from the opening assembly to the right!

Graffiti Wall full of ideas!

The graffiti wall has been up for only one week and it is already full of great ideas!  Way to go everyone!

There are many wonderful suggestions for topics like nutrition and childhood obesity, technology in today's world, natural and man made disasters....just to name a few!  Check out the slideshow of pictures below! (Click on a picture if you would like to see the pictures larger.)

I look forward to seeing what other ideas you come up in the following week before we pick our topic!

Keep up the great work!

Miss Jessica

It's Coming!!

Another year has gone by and here we are again getting ready for the exhibition!

We recently had our parent meeting for 2010 and Ms. Isabel and I were SO pleased with how many parents attended the meeting. If you didn't get a chance to attend, please click here to see the link to the presentation on the school's main website.

We are positive that we are going to have a GREAT exhibition this year and we are looking forward to the next steps in starting the exhibition. Monday 21 June we will start our graffiti wall and exploring what we know about the exhibition! I look forward to posting some of the pictures here soon!

Let us know what you think....what do you think the exhibition is? What topics would you suggest for the exhibition this year?

Looking forward to hearing your responses,

Miss Jessica