Language Usage Checklist for Exhibition

Language Usage Checklist for Exhibition

What will discussion sound like in Grade 5?

• We will use English in our groups UNLESS we need to translate the meaning of a word or phrase that needs clarification or elaboration.
• Then we will remember to switch back to English once we have clarified or elaborated our ideas.
• In partners, we will use English.
• When we are thinking solo we can use either English or Korean/Chinese.
• In teams, we will use English for all conversation unless we are clarifying the meaning of something.

Weekly self-assessment for language usage (Put an X next to your answer.)

This week I was able to use English and Korean/Chinese as per the class expectations.

• Yes X
• Mostly ____________
• Not always _________

The part that was most difficult for me to do was:

• Class discussion X
• Teams in English ______
• Pairs in English _______
• Solo in English ________
• Switch back after using Korean/Chinese _____________

Strategies I used this week:

• I used Korean/Chinese when I:
• Asked a question X
• Expressed an idea X
• Clarified a word X
• Clarified a phrase X
• Elaborated my ideas _____
• Took notes X
• Worked in a team X
• Worked in a pair X
• Worked alone X
• Joked around X
• Had social conversation X
• I used English when I:
• Asked a question X
• Expressed an idea X
• Clarified a word X
• Clarified a phrase _______
• Elaborated my ideas _____
• Took notes X
• Worked in a team X
• Worked in a pair X
• Worked alone X
• Joked around _________
• Had social conversation ______

Look at your goal from last week. Did you accomplish your goal this week? What did you do that helped you accomplish it? or Should you have done to better meet your goal?

This week I am most proud of:That I made a good teamwork in exhibition.

Next week my goal is:Keep on developing my English.

Blob Tree

http://www.pipwilson.com/p/blob-tree.html 

This is the picture of the blob tree. There are many blobs and they are all at each different high, and they have all different emotions. Today at class, we talked about what blob are we in exhibition. And I think I am the blob at the bottom of the tree, starting climbing and getting help by other blob. Actually, I made a purple circle at that blob to see more clearly. I think that blob is me because I am now starting exhibition and that blob is starting to climb tree, so I thought it was similar to me. And another reason is that the blob is getting help from the other blob. I am not doing by my self at exhibition, I'm doing with my friends. I thought I am getting some support by my partners during exhibition, so I think I'm similar to that blob.

Daily reflection for today

Today we decided our team name and central idea and key question and some those kind of stuff. Our group name is 'Oceana'. We decided this name because our topic is water pollution, and water pollution is related to ocean, and 'Oceana' sounds similar to ocean. Also, we thought 'Oceana' sounds well. And of course, our central idea is water pollution. And we decided our key question 'what is the solution of water pollution'. And the key concept is responsibility. Also, we decided when to meet with our mentor. We decided to meet at tomorrow 10:40. It was very fun to discuss in group about lots of things.

Exhibition Reflective

Today, we decided our exhibition topics with our team members. Our team's topic is 'water pollution'. There were two opinions, 'water pollution' and 'testing animals', and finally we decided to do about 'water pollution'. I think we decided well because I don't like doing same thing with other teams. There were other team who were doing about animals. And we wrote about us at our exhibition booklet, too. We wrote about things that I want to share with my group and things that I am good at as a learner. We also wrote about IB profile trait or attitude that I am strong at, and IB profile trait or attitude that I want to strength it. And lastly, we wrote about something that my mentor would to know about me,. And next, I remember that we signed up in managebac and send an email to our mentors. Also, we decided about are we going to do music or drama. And our team decided to do drama. I hope we can make a good teamwork again for the rest of the exhibition!

The Picture of Reflection












http://7-themes.com/6823809-reflective.html

Exhibition Group

Today, we finally knew who we are working with during exhibition. We divided class group MA and RC by the exhibition group. Both my class and exhibition class is RC, and it also means my lead teacher is Mr. Cavanagh. My group members are Hansun and Arim, and my mentor is Ms. Stevens. And after knowing our team members, we wrote our agreements and made a team shield. It was fun thinking about our agreements and making a shield. Our group's agreements were about cooperation, communicate, open-minded, creative, and principled. And we wrote those words on our shield and drew lots of things too. Those activity were very fun. I think we can make good teamworks and do a good exhibition project.

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Language Usage Checklist for Exhibition

Language Usage Checklist for Exhibition

What will discussion sound like in Grade 5?

• We will use English in our groups UNLESS we need to translate the meaning of a word or phrase that needs clarification or elaboration.
• Then we will remember to switch back to English once we have clarified or elaborated our ideas.
• In partners, we will use English.
• When we are thinking solo we can use either English or Korean/Chinese.
• In teams, we will use English for all conversation unless we are clarifying the meaning of something.

Weekly self-assessment for language usage (Put an X next to your answer.)

This week I was able to use English and Korean/Chinese as per the class expectations.

• Yes X
• Mostly ____________
• Not always _________

The part that was most difficult for me to do was:

• Class discussion X
• Teams in English ______
• Pairs in English _______
• Solo in English ________
• Switch back after using Korean/Chinese _____________

Strategies I used this week:

• I used Korean/Chinese when I:
• Asked a question X
• Expressed an idea X
• Clarified a word X
• Clarified a phrase X
• Elaborated my ideas _____
• Took notes ___________
• Worked in a team X
• Worked in a pair X
• Worked alone X
• Joked around X
• Had social conversation X
• I used English when I:
• Asked a question X
• Expressed an idea X
• Clarified a word X
• Clarified a phrase X
• Elaborated my ideas _____
• Took notes X
• Worked in a team X
• Worked in a pair X
• Worked alone X
• Joked around _________
• Had social conversation ______

This week I am most proud of : that I did blog everyday. (I didn't forgot to do)

Next week my goal is : to use more English. I want to develop

Transdisciplinary themes

There are 6 transdisciplinary themes that we learned. The 6 themes are 'How we organize ourselves', 'How the world works', 'Sharing the planet', 'Where we are in place and time', 'Who we are', and 'How we express ourselves'. We learned each different things at these themes. I came at the middle of the year, so I don't know what my classmates learned before I came, but I learned 'Who we are' and 'How we express ourselves'. I remember I learned about adolescence during 'Who we are'. And during 'How we express ourselves', we learned about racism, gender inequality, child labor, and religion. I think I forgot some things that we learned, but these are the most thing I can think of now. And I think I am most interested in 'How we express ourselves'. Because the things that I learned in 'How we express ourselves' was most interesting to me. I was most interested about gender inequality in 'How we express ourselves'. And I will learn more about what I want to.

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Nature Is Speaking

<Nature Is Speaking – Penélope Cruz is Water | Conservation International (CI)>

This is the name of the video that I watch today in youtube. It was a video that saying water's feelings. It said about how they move and people think water is just 'water'. It made me think water is very important thing to human. But we always see water so we could't realize how water is important. I think this video is telling us to protect the natural environment. And this video was interesting because it told us in the perspective of the nature. Also, the last sentence "Nature doesn't need people. People need nature." was very impressive to me. I think now we have to think about the water's importance and take care of water well. 

Nature Is Speaking – Penélope Cruz is Water

this is the video!

(this is the picture from the video!)

Bilingualism

Bilingualism means using two languages. And there are 6 levels in bilingualism(reference the picture). I think I am in level three. Level three is compound bilingual/dominant bilingual. And it means 'A person who is more proficient in one of the two languages'. I think I am in level three because I can speak and understand both language, but still I feel more comfortable at my mother tongue, Korean. I am still at level three, but I want to get to in level five or six. Because if we are in level five or six, it means we are good at both language and we are really a bilingualism people. Also I think knowing many language will help us to communicate with many people. So to get to level five or six, I will need many practice at language. I think speaking in both language will help us a lot. Because if we talk in both language, we can learn more words or expressions. And I think listing or reading will help us too. I am trying to read English books and see English movies these days. I think first I have to learn more about English. Because I am already good at Korean, so if I want to get to next level, I have to make my English and Korean equal. But also learning our mother tongue is important, too. Because our mother tongue will help us understand better in our second language. And another reason is, for example if I don't study Korean and only study English, I will get back to level three with the opposite situation. So I think practicing both language is important.

The picture's source? It might be Mrs. Archie because she send this picture.

Action

Action is doing something or acting. We can take actions when we want to solve some problems or issues. And today, I will talk about my actions. When I was in grade 4(or maybe 5. I can't remember it exactly.), I walked over my town and picked up the trashes in the street. I didn't know there were so many trashes in the street before I picked up the trashes. After the activity, there were so much stuffs in my trash bag. I was very surprised, but I think the street might be cleaner by me. And I thought I shouldn't trash some stuffs on the street.

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Overnight experience

Today, I had an overnight experience at school. We did lots of activities, and it was very fun. I think this experience was a good chance to prepare exhibition. Because we learned some skills that would help us during exhibition, and I think it helped our friendship, too. My most memorable thing was when we went to bed. Because it was fun to sleep with all of our classmates. I was very excited so I couldn't get sleep early. I think the other kids were same as me too. Even the teachers were walking and checking us, they were still playing loudly. Also, I can remember about the music that came out when we are sleeping(actually talking). One of the teacher(I don't know her name) was walking around with the music, saying kind of like "One.. Two.. Three.. Breath in.. Breath out..". I felt like I was being lost in meditation because of the music. I was sleeping next to Kate, and Kate and we were saying like "When do the music ends?" because the music was very, very long. And another thing that I liked was riding bikes and going to Gotjawal. Because it was fun to ride bikes, and I liked Gotjawal. Gotjawal was like a mystery deep forest. Also, I liked that I could talk with my friends while we walk. This experience went very fun because of many things!!

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Is commitment important for PYPX?

Commitment means being committed to your learning and not giving up. I think commitment will be important during the exhibition. Because when we do exhibition, it might be difficult and we might want to give up. But if we don't give up and continue our work even though it is hard, we will get good result. And when we do exhibition, we will do the project as a group, so I think commitment will help us to keep good relationships with our team members. Also, we have to be responsible and committed to exhibition, so I think commitment will help us in many ways during exhibition. And I think commitment will be good to use when we are learning in class, too. 

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Understanding PYP

Today, I learned about understanding PYP. First we watched a video to help understand what PYP is, and we did one activity. We made a group and matched some words that connected each other, and the words were related to PYP. After we finished it, we joined with other group members and share our group's work. The important thing was finding out what PYP is, and sharing ideas with the group. Sometimes there were some words that I don't know the meaning, so I thought I have to learn more words in PYP. Though it wasn't perfect, but still I shared my ideas as best as I can. So I think I made a fine job today. And next time, I will listen more carefully and try to explain my idea well.

  















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Compass points of PYP Exhibition

I am going to write about exhibition today. 
One thing that I'm excited about is working on a group. When I work with others, I can hear their opinion and get more information. Also, I can learn more things and make better works. Other thing that I am excited is I can learn more by working on exhibition. During exhibition, we have to think again what we learned. So I think while we do that, we can review that we learned. 
One thing that I'm worried about is my exhibition group partners. I like working together with my friends, but what if I be partners with who my mind don't fit well? We might say very different ideas and we might fight each other. I think we have to work with different people, but sometimes I want to do with friends who fit well with me. Sometimes it helps us to do work better. Other thing that I'm worried about 'can I do exhibition well?'. I think exhibition will be a bit difficult project. There are many things to do and I think it will be hard too. So I am worried that if I can do exhibition well. 
I will write about what do we need to know about the exhibition. I think we have to know about it's form. And we have to have more information about our topic when we get it. Also, I think it's good to have good communication. 
I think exhibition will be good learning chance to me. Also, I think I can learn communicating more by exhibition.