Hilma | Grade 5 Exhibition

April 30, 2012
by Hilma
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What?! Swedish Friend Says Her Exhibition Was Boring

by Hilma

My friend is in 6th grade right now in Sweden. Last year she also went to a PYP school and she and her class in grade 5 did an exhibition as well.

I emailed her earlier inviting her to go to our exhibition blog. She replied asking me why and I said, “It’s because we are doing our exhibition right now and it would be fun if you could visit our blog.”

She replied, “Oh, cool! I also did an exhibition last year. It was so boring for me.”

When I read that I went, “WHAT!”

I quickly replied, “Why was it so boring?”

She replied, “Our central idea was about poor children. What we talked mostly about was how they needed to build toys and how they were sold as slaves. My job in the group was to type everything up and tell my members to work and what to do. I was sort of like the group leader and the typist. Unfortunately, the people I worked with did not do barely anything and I was not very good friends with them, but it was also sad because we had to do about 3 projects of the same thing and we had to sort of say the same things about them because they were so similar.”

Well, too bad she wasn’t a grade 5 student at IST. Our exhibition has been anything but boring. We haven’t had time to be bored! We’ve been so busy organizing ourselves and taking action!

April 29, 2012
by Hilma
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The Storybook Group is Ready For Next Week

The Storybook Group is writing educational picture books for students in kindergarten to grade 2.

The Storybook Group have now finished their stories and this week their books will be published.

They will be very busy writing their reflection essays about the exhibition, preparing the boards and practicing for their performance next week. The hardest bit for them in the Exhibition was to make the illustrations for the books and finding the right techniques to make the book interesting. For some it was to find really good ideas for their stories and to make the books really fun for the younger readers. For some of the beginners using their English has been a big challenge. They have done a lot of things that have been fun but their favorite things that they have done are shopping for cool and fun materials at the stationary market, writing their stories, illustrating and decorating the storybooks and surveying the Grade 1 and 2 students.

I interviewed the Storybook Group and my last question for them was:

If you had a piece of advice for a new author, what would you say?

Research well the audience you are aiming for. For example, we learned that 10-15 pages are good for K-G2. For younger readers the books also have to be very captive and interesting. The book could teach the reader something.

Excellent advice, Storybook Group authors! Thanks. We’re looking forward to reading your books next week.

Edited by Mrs. Fitzgerald

April 25, 2012
by Hilma
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Welcome to The Grade 5 Exhibition

April 17, 2012
by Hilma
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The Top Trumps Cards Are Done. What’s Next?

The Top Trumps group is creating a trading card game that highlights the traditions and events of IST.

The Top Trumps Group are doing great. I’ll tell you why: They are done with their cards! They surveyed the students about what some great traditions at IST are, they made draft designs, they edited the design and then Mr. Kimber edited them. They thought they were ready and then, oh no!, the cards wouldn’t fit into the container they had for their cards, so it was back to the drawing board to resize. The cards now are printed in color and real card paper, and fit perfectly in the container.

They now have to try the cards out so that they know people will like them when they come out for real. That’s why they are going to plan an activity for elementary students from grades 2~5 to come and play with the Top Trumps cards. That will be sometime soon. Be sure to check out the posters they are putting up around the school for details on the activity.

: This is Mr. Kimber’s early draft of the card.

Here are all the cards in black and white. They will be available in full color in a a week or so.

Edited by Chloe.

April 2, 2012
by Hilma
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IST Traditions Now a Trading Game

The Top Trumps group is creating a trading card game that highlights the traditions and events of IST.

The Top Trumps group have finished their research and planning, and are now almost finished drafting their cards.

They have been researching a lot about Top Trumps cards. Almost all of their information has come from the IST website, Wikipedia, and the Top Trumps official website (www.toptrumps.com). They also have been looking at the IST yearbooks to find special events that IST have done for a long time.

They are going to have 30 different cards with a different place, event or a person on each one. Some examples are Mr. Moody, library, and UN day. They will have 5 categories that the people playing will choose from:

Internationalness
Duration
Excitement
Amount of people involved
Educational value.

All of the members in the Top Trumps Group like all the cards they have made but their favorite event cards are UN day (Arthur), Soccer tournament (Zen), and Thursday Night Live (Peter). Seung Wook likes the card about Mr. Moody.

They are hoping to finish their cards today and they are going to hope to test it out tomorrow. They will first test the cards in their group then they will ask other students to play.

Edited by:Dylan

April 1, 2012
by Hilma
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How To Write a Storybook For Young Children

The Storybook Group plans to write educational picture books for students in kindergarten to grade 2.

The Storybook Group are making story books for kindergarten and grade 1-2. The books will teach the students something. This type of book is called a concept book. A concept book is different from a normal book because a concept book at the end of the story will help you learn a lesson, while a picture book could be pretty much anything.

They have researched and they learned a little bit how to make a book and what subject their story were going to be. They also interviewed Mrs. Fitzgerald. They went to the K-G2 to survey them and they learned a lot about what those students would want to read about. Also they met with Ms. Ilonka so they would know about books because Ms. Ilonka has published a book. They have learned most from the experts that they interviewed and the students that they surveyed.

Edited by: Seo Young

March 21, 2012
by Hilma
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IST Top Trumps

The Top Trumps group has achieved much so far. They have had some struggles but that hasn’t stopped them from working. They surveyed grade 2 and 3 and they are turning the results from that survey into a chart. They’ve researched about special activities/traditions of IST and chosen the best ones to put on the cards. We think that their project will be a huge success.

Top Trumps are a kind of trading card game. Each card has a subject and the subject has different abilities that go with it. The cards have the same abilities but not the same percent, and one of the players would want the highest percent for the abilities. Each card has different percentage for the abilities so that’s why you would want to trade them. There are some games for the Top Trumps cards but there are a lot of different ways to play the games.

Edited by Shehab and Chloe

Grade 5 Exhibition

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