Saturday, March 17, 2018

Meet Some Ancient Greek and Chinese Friends

Grade 5 was learning about ancient civilisation, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient China for their reading. To get them into the text, I asked students to create a character from Ancient Greece or China in groups. They got to choose the name, age and gender. Then, using information they found in their reading text, they should describe their character:
Hobbies
Parents’/their job
Clothes
Houses
Schools/what they learned
Feelings
Wishes

Those descriptions reflect the ancient civilisation that time.

Once done with their characters, groups decided members that will become hosts/visitors. Hosts will stay in their group to explain their character to visiting friends from other groups (rotated) while visitors visit and listen to other groups’ presentation. Eventually hosts/visitors will take turns so everybody gets to present and/or visit and listen.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Batik Newscast Presentation (2013 English Annual Project)




What do you know about batik?
Where does batik come from?

What do you think can be improved from the role-plays above?
Which one do you think is the best newscast video?
Who do you think is the best news anchor?
The best reporter?
The best spokeperson?
What is his/her strength?

Friday, June 7, 2013

Grade 3 Annual Project: Batik: A World's Heritage

English
  • Article research on various batik subtopics
  • Batik article writing and newspaper making
  • Batik newscast presentation






Article study and research






Gather with group members with the same article to deepen understanding.




The "expert" group split up and return to their own groups to share the information.







Math
  • Batik survey
  • Batik data collecting
  • Batik bar graph making
  • Presentation


Taking survey and questionnaires in grade 4D: which batik pattern is your favorite?








Collecting and analyzing data





Making bar graph






Presenting the bar graph

Science
  • Making Batik
  • Observing, understanding and recording the change in matters in batik making process


Our Art Teacher, Ms. Ira, gave an introduction before we started our batik project.







First, we traced the outline of the batik pattern on the cloth using pencil.







The solid wax started to melt.




The melted wax is used to trace the batik outline.







Students melted the wax on the wok.
What change in matter happens? Why/how?
What safety measure do you need to observe while melting the wax?




Students traced the batik outline using the melted wax.
What tool do you need to trace? What is it made of?
What safety measure do you need to observe while tracing?

















Students colored the batik using acrylic paint.











Students melted the wax on their batik using iron.
What change in matter happens? Why/how?
What safety measure do we need to observe while ironing?