New Unit of Inquiry: Organization can help a community thrive!

We have begun our new Unit of Inquiry on organization within communities. Please see the letter sent home today with vocabulary words to discuss at home, and also take a moment to click on the page titled "Units of Inquiry" just below our header picture on this blog for more information about the central idea and lines of inquiry.

We started our unit by examining the word 'organization'. We reflected on how we keep things organized in our own lives; see the pictures in the slideshow below for the ideas we came up with:
(*Hint: The photos change fairly quickly, so to allow more time for reading the speech bubbles, hover over the slideshow and click on the arrows to scroll through manually.)

Movie Night

Please see this note about an upcoming movie night:

A high school service learning group - Happy Homes - is organizing a Movie Night for the students in PreK4 - Grade 3. 

 

Date: Thursday, January 29th

Time: 6pm - 8pm (movie will start at 6pm)

Location: AISD Community Hall 

Movie: How to Train Your Dragon 2

We are not selling movie tickets, but since this is a fund raiser for our group we will be selling popcorn and baked items.

Also, there will be two high school teachers present throughout the event with 10 high school students. 

 

Welcome, Shin!

We have a new member of KG-M! Shin joined our class just yesterday and we are enjoying having him as part of our team. If you see him around, please make sure you say hello!

Using Objects in Novel Ways

One more activity from our creativity unit:

Creativity in KG-M from AIS Dhaka on Vimeo.

We Are Creative!

We were involved in a lot of fun activities during our unit on creativity. One of these was an activity in which we read the book "Not A Box" by Antoinette Portis. (You can listen to the book here). We then used our creativity to design and create things out of ordinary boxes. Our ideas included such things as a dog, a claw machine and a clock. You can see all our creations through these pictures:


We also had a number of guest speakers come in to share with us how they use their creativity through various forms of expression. Mrs. Birdwell shared her creativity through dance, Mr. DenHartigh through art, Mr. Russell through drama, Mr. Swapan through music and finally Mr. Morris through design technology. We were inspired by their creativity and tried expressing ourselves in various ways too!

We will be beginning a new Unit of Inquiry this week. The central idea is, "Organization can help a community thrive." We look forward to exploring this unit in detail throughout the next few weeks!