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Griebe Constitution
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Class 1 student-led conference
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News from PYP Threads
Hover your mouse over the Netvibes tab, which links to our PYP Threads Netvibes page of PYP Threads members' schools' websites, and you'll see a link to another Netvibes page with links to the Netvibes sites created by PYP Threads members.
Hover your mouse over the Exhibition tab (which links to Tod Baker's ning, and you'll see links to 3 other nings of interest to PYP people: The Flat Classroom ning's PYP Group started by Leigh Newton, InquirySchools, a ning created by Sherryl Joseph, and Inquiry Teaching and Learning, a private ning started by Elaine Gwendolen Reimann.
Hover your mouse over the Photos tab, and you'll see a link to a group on Flickr called "Illustrating the PYP". You're invited to join the group there, and post your photos. If you click the blue Photos tab, you'll go to the Photos page for this ning.
The Diigo Group tab takes you to our home page at the social bookmark site Diigo.
In the left side bar, you'll find the RSS feed from our Diigo bookmarks page,
a links list of blogs and photo groups of PYP Threads people -let me know if you have a blog, photo gallery, video site, start page, etc., that you'd like linked here, and a feed of the Tweets of PYP folks who have listed Twitter accounts in their Profile Information. You can see the full page at Twitter.
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Any schools interested in setting up some Grade 4 classroom collaborations for the 2009/10 school year? 26 Replies
I am writing from Qatar Academy Primary School, Doha, Qatar in order to invite classrooms from around the world to join with our Grade 4 classes in a long term, but fairly low key collaboration. We...
Started by Nerine Chalmers in Connections. Last reply by Andy Birch Nov 19.
An international Reading Assessment tool
Hi everyone, Our school has been struggling to find a reading assessment tool or test we can use throughout elementary school. We have found good tests but are they never international enough or ar...
Started by Helen Saunders in Assessment Nov 18.
Profiles, attitudes and skills 2 Replies
Hello Everybody, I am searching for simple tried and tested ideas of how to meaningfully involve the profiles, attitudes and skills into our teaching and learning. I frequently get asked this quest...
Tagged: learner_profile, attitudes
Started by Daran Litchfield in Learner Profile. Last reply by Heidi Brenner Nov 18.
Discussion of the use of the new IB PYP Math's and Language S&S in YOUR schools 5 Replies
Hello there! Here I am again... I'm just wondering... After about a year of the IB PYP Updated Maths and Language continuums...is anybody ready to discuss how this change in focus has affected th...
Tagged: scope_and_sequence, maths, language
Started by Jacqueline (Jax) Webb in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Andrea Mwalula Nov 18.
What to do when the school is closed! 1 Reply
My school has been closed for the remainder of the week due to the number of students who were sick on Monday. (See a Google translation of a Danish newspaper article about the school closure). We...
Tagged: Homework, ICT, Inquiry
Started by Karen Serritslev in Connections. Last reply by Shivani Negi Nov 17.
Library Activities for Grade 1 Planner "celebrations"??? 2 Replies
Good evening dear All, Can any librarian share with me some possible activities in the Library in the frame of the planner : Celebrations - Grade 1. Suggestions in french are most welcome as well !!
Tagged: library, celebrations, UI
Started by zeina Kaissi in Library. Last reply by zeina Kaissi Nov 16.
How can we make inquiry visible? 19 Replies
Hi Chaps! I'm on a bit of a roll here...but promise to "go and get a life" soon! I'm still on the topic of "Show me what it might look like," and I wonder if you have any ideas about how we record...
Started by Jacqueline (Jax) Webb in Inquiry. Last reply by Sam Sherratt Nov 12.
What are the ingredients of a "perfect" unit of inquiry? 6 Replies
I was talking to Tod Baker this morning about the exhibition unit. We were both of the opinion that there is too much pressure on Grade 5 teachers to put together the perfect unit, and under the sc...
Tagged: creativity, express, ourselves, planning, learning
Started by Sam Sherratt in Inquiry. Last reply by Sam Sherratt Nov 12.
collaboration with little people 2 Replies
Good morning all, I would love to set up some communication/collaboration (email,skype...) with some other Year One classes in the world. I teach, and learn, at an international school in Hong kong...
Tagged: collaboration
Started by Neil Ringrose in Early Years. Last reply by Neil Ringrose Nov 11.
Looking for a booklist for Celebrations around the world...
If you have anything you can share, I'd be forever grateful!
Started by Bridget Shaughnessy in Library Nov 9.
Blog Posts
Useful blog
I came across a blog that I liked. What I wanted to share is the comprehensive list of web tools that can be used collaboratively by students and teachers.
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/student-tools-let-them-fly/
All that I can say is that it saved me loads of time :)
Posted by Cristina Milos on August 30, 2009 at 1:22am
Essential Agreements
Dianne McKenzie, Librarian at Discovery College in Hong Kong, has written a blog post titled "Essentially Agreeing" on her blog, "Library Grits". She writes about developing an Essential Agreement for the Library,… Continue Posted by Kathy Epps on August 2, 2009 at 7:29am — 1 Comment
Class 1 student-led conference questions and some answers
First, I must tell you this is not my class! I'm often in and out of this classroom with my… Continue
Posted by Kathy Epps on July 2, 2009 at 7:06am — 2 Comments
Groups - 6 transdisciplinary themes
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Groups
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Tech Integration
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Visual Arts Primary 20...
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Librarians
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Sharing the planet
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How we organize ourselves
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How the world works
27 members
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How we express ourselves
29 members
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Where we are in place ...
23 members
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Who we are
29 members
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Exhibition
17 members
2009 Exhibitions
"The exhibition represents a significant event in the life of both the school and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the programme and sharing them with the whole school community. It is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the student profile that have been developing throughout their engagement with the programme." (IBO)
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Google Wave - is your school using it?
So it’s been out for a little while now, and many of us will have tried it out…but what impact is Google Wave making on schools? We’re in the process of updating our blog software, and we’ll be looking at options for increasing participation and collaboration. We like Disqus comments, but embedding Google Wave conversations could [...]IB World - tweets and comments from the IB community
We had a great response to our request for examples of environmental initiatives that IB schools are involved in. View the thread on your school and green issues to see some of the comments. Sean Löfgren tweeted @iborganization I’m an IB student from Antwerp (AIS) and I help the environment by biking an hour a day to [...]Logo Photo Credit:
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