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*On Friday we showed our Exhibition projects to the school and the kids did a great job! It is hard to talk to "little kids" about intense issues like the ones they studied and so they had to learn to adapt their presentations quickly. They did a great job and were very creative in what they came up with.
This week we will be making final changes to the projects, showing them to the class and completing evaluations. The kids are excited to get to show you all what they have learned on Tuesday night!
This has been a long and difficult project for the kids, but I have been very impressed with how they applied their skills and knowledge and really did a great job!
The "Exhibition of our Learning" for families will take place on June 2nd and will coincide with graduation. Please check the "announcement" page for more details.
*For more information about Exhibition, please read all the way to the bottom of the page. You will find a description of Exhibition as well as ways that you can help your child!
What is it?
*The final PYP experience the students can have in elementary school
*A way of showing everything that that the students have learned in PYP
*The last steppingstone between PYP and middle school
What do the students have to do?
*Address a real world problem
*Show the qualities of the Student Profile through their actions
*Use the key questions (concepts)
*Show their skills in all five sets of the transdisciplinary skills
*Show positive attitudes when they are working
*Take positive action!
What is the ISSUE?
The central idea focuses on:
Knowledge of global issues might inspire us to act.
During the next 7 weeks the kids will work in small groups to chose a topic, create questions, gather information, make conclusions, communicate what they have learned, and plan a way to act.
They will be working as a team, with mentors (other teachers in the school), and myself as they move through each step.
Parents Role in Exhibition:
As parents, you are going to feel naturally inclined to want to help your kids and push them to learn more. What I ask of you during this time is that you only serve as a mentor to them. Do not do their work for them, this is their opportunity to put all that they have learned together and display how far theyve come.
If you would like to guide your child, the following are ways that you could positively assist them:
1. Ask them open-ended questions to help them learn more about their topic:
* How do you know that?
* Why is this so?
* Why do you think that?
* In what way does this affect
that?
* Can we find that out?
* What do we need?
* What is your purpose?
* Can you clarify that?
2. Offer your child support and encouragement throughout the process
* Check in with them daily to see how things are going.
Ask them:
-What is going well?
-What is difficult?
-How are they contributing
to the work?
-What attributes of the
profile or attitudes did they
show that day?
3. Guide your child in finding and using resources.
*This does not mean that you should find the resources yourself and then give them to your child, but rather help them to use the best resources available to them. This includes primary as well as secondary resources. If they need help in finding something or dont know the proper procedure to investigate something, guide them through it, but let them do the thinking!
* Examples of Primary Resources are:
Survey, Interview, Letter, Email
*Examples of Secondary Resources are:
Books, Newspaper, Scholarly Journals, Popular Magazines, Reference, Reference Books, Web