Grade 5 Exhibition of 2014 Parents' Information Night is Coming!

Dear Grade 5 Parents,

The Grade 5 students will soon begin a culminating experience of all their learning in Elementary School, the PYP Exhibition. We would like to invite you and your Grade 5 child to attend the PYP Exhibition Information Evening on Thursday 27th March 2014. The event will be held in the Media Centre on the elementary campus. We will start promptly at 5:30pm.

During the presentation, you will receive information on:

• What is the Grade 5 Exhibition

• Its purpose

• The role of the students, parents and teachers

• Ways you can support your child at home

We look forward to seeing you and your child there.

Sincerely,

The PYP Exhibition Team

Ms. Bridget (G4/5 Teacher)

Mr. Jon (G4/5 Teacher)

Ms. Carolyne (EAL Teacher)

Ms. Susan (LS Teacher)

Ms. Kim (Acting Elementary Principal)

Students Create Central Idea for the 2014 Grade 5 Exhibition!

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On Monday, March 3, the ISPP Grade 5 students met again with Ms. Kim Engasser to discuss the transdisciplinary theme, "Sharing the Planet", and to distill a central idea from it. Students worked together in groups of three or four to combine their own versions of pieces of the the transdisciplinary theme they found engaging. After this exercise, the Exhibition teachers facilitated a combination of the best parts of many of these groups' central ideas.

The resulting central idea for the 2014 Grade 5 ISPP Exhibition is:

Human beings have a right to have their basic needs met and the responsibility to share natural resources with other living things.

Having come up with this central idea, students will be taking a break from Exhibition preparatory meetings to focus on their current unit of inquiry on materials.

NEXT ON THE EXHIBITION AGENDA...

During the first week of the Exhibition starting on March 31, students will be exposed to many issues through guest speakers, a field trip, and small research sessions. As a parent, you can help your child prepare to select an issue that falls into the realm of our central idea by having conversations about problems both of you see in the world around you everyday.