"People and conflict"
This week we looked more into our UOI central idea about people and conflict. I asked the children to think about conflict that might happen out in public, such as people not driving or riding safely so they crash into each other. Aiko had a story of a time she was on the train and a man wasn't wearing a mask, so a passenger asked him why he wasn't wearing one. The man got angry and the train driver had to come and ask everyone to leave the train and deal with this man and the police. So we discussed how these people could have reacted in a more peaceful way to avoid conflict. We had a guest English lesson taught by Murty and Fatma (grade 9 students) about describing words. They showed the children some text that children in grade 5 wrote that showed nice describing words and the passage was giving clues about what the text was about. Using the clues, the children had to guess that the first passage was about "something that became very popular around the world in 2020.|...