"People and conflict"

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 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.|

It was a mask!

The second text was describing a hummingbird. Then, they were given three different pictures and in teams, they had 3 minutes to write as many describing words as possible to describe the pictures. One was a cheetah, one was Ms Rachael and the other one was ice cream.

I was very scared about what they would say about me! Some of the words were as follows:





We also did lessons on prepositions (under, below, on, in, between, beside, above) and a little more on predicates (information you add to a sentence to give the reader more understanding. E.g. "The girl walked." is a simple sentence, but "The girl walked down the road" has more information so "down the road' is the predicate. 











Everyone helped prepare our ICF booth about Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country north of Australia with the third largest rainforest in the world. 

We saw hilarious videos about birds of paradise performing their mating dance and learnt about different tribes and animals from PNG. 

The kids enjoyed their time on the 10th floor looking at the displays about Nigeria, Philippines, Cuba, Brazil, Australia and PNG.







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