New PYP Unit: "Stories Can Engage Their Audience & Communicate Meaning"
Within this fun unit, we will discuss and explore various means of storytelling used for generations around the world. These include music, theatre, dance, art, poetry, legends, photography, live storytelling, picture books & story books. We would LOVE for family members to come in and share any kind of storytelling!
Line of Inquiry 1: "Ways in which stories can be told” (Form)
Over the next 3 weeks, your child will complete a selection of the following activities:
· Guest readers (parents, others in school)
· Reading buddies with older students - Share what you know about stories
· Explore Storytelling through types of international dance (via videos) , international theatre (via videos), poetry (listening &
envisioning with eyes closed), and through the sharing of legends and live storytelling (without books)
· Explore picture books without words - Develop artistic expression/appreciation
· Story maps/webs in response to books or stories told in class
· Create a class book of stories (as author & illustrator)
· Make a classroom theater to act out their stories using masks/puppets
· PYP Learner Profile Lessons: Risk Taker. What is a risk taker? We will discuss how acting and sharing your ideas can be
examples of confidence, teamwork and risk taking. Students will write and draw examples of other times they have been risk-
takers in their journals.
· Cause and Effect Detectives
· Characters Setting and Events Chart
· Crafting Sentences
· Fact Treasure Hunt Graphic Organizer
· First Next Last Organizer
· Who What Where When Graphic Organizer
· Weekend News Graphic Organizer
· Cinquain Poetry Planner
· Fiction Non-fiction Graphic Organizers
· Story Map - Primary Grades
Over the next 3 weeks, your child will complete a selection of the following activities:
· Guest readers (parents, others in school)
· Reading buddies with older students - Share what you know about stories
· Explore Storytelling through types of international dance (via videos) , international theatre (via videos), poetry (listening &
envisioning with eyes closed), and through the sharing of legends and live storytelling (without books)
· Explore picture books without words - Develop artistic expression/appreciation
· Story maps/webs in response to books or stories told in class
· Create a class book of stories (as author & illustrator)
· Make a classroom theater to act out their stories using masks/puppets
· PYP Learner Profile Lessons: Risk Taker. What is a risk taker? We will discuss how acting and sharing your ideas can be
examples of confidence, teamwork and risk taking. Students will write and draw examples of other times they have been risk-
takers in their journals.
· Cause and Effect Detectives
· Characters Setting and Events Chart
· Crafting Sentences
· Fact Treasure Hunt Graphic Organizer
· First Next Last Organizer
· Who What Where When Graphic Organizer
· Weekend News Graphic Organizer
· Cinquain Poetry Planner
· Fiction Non-fiction Graphic Organizers
· Story Map - Primary Grades
Great Family Fieldtrip Opportunity!
Saadiyat Island Museum is running a cool exhibit called Eco Future until September 2013 (10am-8pm). It offers interactive games, about how to care for the environment! http://www.saadiyatculturaldistrict.ae/en/cultural-programme/exhibitions/Eco-Future/
PYP - Primary Years Programme
Students in the 21st century are faced with the challenge of learning about an interconnected world where knowledge is constantly developing. The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Primary Years Programme prepares students to be active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.
The most significant and distinctive feature of the IB Primary Years Programme is the six transdisciplinary themes. These themes are about issues that have meaning for, and are important to, all of us. The programme offers a balance between learning about or through the subject areas, and learning beyond them. The six themes of global significance create a transdisciplinary framework that allows students to "step up" beyond the confines of learning within subject areas.
https://www.ibo.org/pyp/
The most significant and distinctive feature of the IB Primary Years Programme is the six transdisciplinary themes. These themes are about issues that have meaning for, and are important to, all of us. The programme offers a balance between learning about or through the subject areas, and learning beyond them. The six themes of global significance create a transdisciplinary framework that allows students to "step up" beyond the confines of learning within subject areas.
- Who we are
- Where we are in place and time
- How we express ourselves
- How the world works
- How we organize ourselves
- Sharing the planet
https://www.ibo.org/pyp/