Guest Speaker

Today we were lucky enough to have Chris (one of our Grade 2 parents) come and talk to us about Urban Planning. He works in Phnom Penh Urban Planning where he focusses on recreation and cycling in the city. He was a wealth of information and really promoted student thinking!

Taking Learning Outdoors

This morning we had our math session in the shaded areas of our playground. We are learning mapping skills and have been learning about coordinates.  It was fabulous to be outdoors.

While we were there, we reflected on our school environment. Recently we walked around our school and noticed the sights, sounds, and smells. Then we wrote some wonderings about our discoveries. Today we took our ideas further, and identified an area in the school we felt could be modified in order to meet the need of our school community both now and in the future. They took a photo of the area they wanted to adapt and drew their changes on a piece of overlay paper.

Sharing The Planet

Our current Unit of Inquiry is 'Sharing The Planet'. We are looking at urban environments and how we can adapt and modify them in order to bring about sustainable change. During the past few weeks we have been exploring the central idea, looking at unit vocabulary, and deciding on elements that urban environments have in common. In IT we have explored urban environments through Google Earth - taking a scavenger hunt through cities around the world to find examples of infrastructure, recreational areas, services etc.