Weekly updates of 5K

 1^st October - 5^th October

This week students were assessed in Maths (place-value, expansion, and rounding), English (creative writing), Apart from the above, students practiced factors and multiples .unit of inquiry (first line of inquiry of the unit on civilisation).
In the unit of inquiry, students read the assigned pages through gig-saw reading and created a mind-map of their understanding of archaeology. They followed it up with a gallery walk in order to understand each other's observation and knowledge about archaeology and archaeologists. 

 18^th September - 28^th September

In English students were given pictures and they had to make a story using adjectives, nouns, and words which convey emotions.

In the unit of inquiry, students wrote the reflection of their last unit on buildings and structures.
They inquired into the concept of archaeology by being archaeologists themselves. They had to dig out certain artifacts and think about them through the example of the given question:
- What do you think this might be?
- How do you think it might have been used?
- What material do you think is it made of? etc.

Week 3^rd Sep - 8^th Sep

The highlights of this week were the following:

Students visited the science lab in the senior school in order to do some experiments on tension, compression, and gravity. These experiments helped them to understand the concepts. The teachers in science lab Mr. Sudipto Roy (Diploma program coordinator) and Ms. Babita have been instrumental in making this session interesting and engaging. Below are some photographs of the science lab:

In Maths, students practiced the operations of multiplication and division and they also made structures using different shapes and angles. They first made a blueprint of a structure last week and followed it up with construction:

Apart from the above, students revised 2D and 3D shapes through myimaths website and they revised the features of different shapes.

In English, they were shown a silent movie for a couple of minutes and they had to continue the story, including more instances and giving it a conclusion.

Week 27^th-31^st August 2018

In English students have been engaged in speed writing. They were given about 15 minutes of time, in which they were supposed to write on a picture which was shown to them. Most of them could not stop as they were so engaged with the whole process.

Below is a photograph of the above activity.

We have been able to do quite a bit in Mathematics: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division have been practiced and are still being practiced. Some fun activities have also been explored in Maths:

In the unit of inquiry, students have had a session with our guest speaker Mr. Amit Kumar (architect of Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, Tajikistan). The session was done via Skype and was informative.

Students also did their formative assessment on the first line of inquiry and are going to explore bridges next week