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In the PYP, the Unit of In-

quiry is a sort of driving force

for the entire course of the

academic year that sets the

context of learning for all

other subjects as well. These

units are constructed meticu-

lously and comprehensively

around six trans-disciplinary

themes of global significance,

providing a framework of

exploration and study.

These themes are:

Who we are

Where we are in place

and time

How we express our-

selves

How the world works

How we organize our-

selves

Sharing the planet

Every grade studies six UOIs,

each lasting for an average of

six weeks, that fall under each

of these six themes, thereby

creating a vertical and horizon-

tal alignment across all the

grades.

These themes are trans-

disciplinary because students

are taught all other subjects

(English, Math, 2nd/3rd lan-

guage, Sports, Art, Music etc.)

in as close a link as possible to

the theme currently being in-

quired into.

Unit of Inquiry thus becomes a

fine blend of the social scienc-

es, arts and science creating a

certain academic atmosphere

for six weeks that maximizes

learning of the subject (and

therefore the theme), allow-

ing the child to gain a deeper

understanding than other-

wise possible.

In these few weeks, activities

are planned pertaining to the

themes and subjects that will

help them acquire skills of

inquiry and research.

Activities such as quizzes,

project work, power point

presentations, guest lec-

tures, skits and many more

are planned to make their

learning both effective and

fun.

IB Curriculum Information What Are The Trans-Disciplinary Themes &

What is a Unit of Inquiry ?

PYP Buzz

14/11/2017

Volume 3

Grade Page

Grade 5 3—4

Grade 4 5—6

Grade 3 7—8

Grade 2 9—10

Grade 1 11—12

Grade K2 13—14

Grade K1 15—16

Grade Nursery 17—18

Specialists 19—28

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Important Dates

November

Children's Day: 14th

Holiday : 18th

Fourcee Competition: 25th

December

Holiday: 2nd

Sports Day : 9th

Winter Break: 16th—2nd Jan

January

First day of School: 3rd

Semester 2 Begins: 15th

PTM : 20th

Sharanya

Narayani

International

School

Welcome to the third issue of SNIS PYP Buzz which communicates about the excit-

ing things happening in the Primary Years Program.

Through this newsletter as a medium, we are covering and communicating about the core aspects of the IB PYP and its methodology and different activities happening in

the classrooms.


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UOI

Using i-pads to research about personality traits

Discussion on their own personality types

Grade 5 students learnt about different People’s

behaviour patterns and the ways they project their

identities. They read various case studies on differ-

ent personalities and compared their behaviour

using T Charts.

They took an online and offline survey to find out

about their own multiple intelligences and personal-

ity trait.

Math

Using manipulatives to record their findings

Using different colours to compare quantities

In maths, concepts of fractions and decimals was

covered where students learnt about addition sub-

traction , multiplication and division of fractions and

mixed numbers. They learnt that decimals are an-

other way to represent fractions.

The concept of Ratio was also introduced using

manipulatives.

English

Learning a Poem

Recount writing was introduced as an integrated

activity with English to get familiarised with autobi-

ographies of different personalities. They also read

different autobiographies in the class.

Poems were introduced as a standalone topic

where students used different Graphic organisers

to structure and learn poems.

To integrate further students were introduced to

descriptive writing and its features.

Grade: 5


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Poems created and written by Kuhu, Roshan & Akshay (Unedited versions)

Poems were introduced to Grade 5 students, They

came up with the idea to create their own poems.

Grade: 5

Grade 5 students describing an object to learn descriptive

writing


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UOI

Students developing research skills using iPADs.

Students recording information in the information sheet using GRAPES strategy.

Grade 4 was involved in inquiring about civili-

zations unit . Since we had research skill as a

focus, students used iPADs to research about

their chosen civilization. Students used

GRAPES strategy to record information on

their chosen civilization.

Math

Students working on FRAYER model

on Multiplication

Students reflection on the process of

solving estimation problems.

Grade 4 reflected on their learning in Math.

Students chose to reflect on the concepts

either by doing a FRAYER’s model or writing

a process of calculation or by filling a mind

map on a concept.

English

Students discussing the read text in a group.

Guided reading session

Grade 4 is involved in Guided Reading every

week. Students use strategies like Predict,

Connect and Infer from the text read. These

strategies help them to understand the mean-

ing of the text and comprehend things proper-

ly.

Grade: 4


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Elocution Competition

Students representing their respec-tive houses for elocution.

Grade 4 students represented their houses by par-

ticipating in the elocution competition. They exhib-

ited Courageous Learner Profile by speaking in

front of the whole school.

Merit certificates

Students getting the merit certificate from the PYP Coordinator—Mr. Kapil Mehrotra

Students got merit certificates for exhibiting learn-

er profile and attitudes not only in their classrooms

but also in other co-curricular areas.

Learner Profile in Hindi

Students identifying the learner profile in Hindi and English.

Students learnt the learner profile in our national

language—Hindi. They enthusiastically guessed the

Hindi Learner profile for the English one by associ-

ating the meaning of both the languages.

Grade: 4

Student orating on stage


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UOI

Students exploring sound energy in the Lab.

Students presenting their research on transformation of energy.

Grade 3 is exploring energy unit at the moment.

They are involved in various presentations and

hands-on experiments in the science labs apart

from regular teaching activities in the class. These

activities are practical and experiential and help

students to make connection between what they

are learning and understanding the concepts clearly.

Math

Students using manipulatives to understand equal grouping

Students using manipulatives to learn Division

To understand the concept that Division means

sharing in equal groups, the children took manipula-

tives and made equal groups. They proceeded into

adding symbols and making division sentences out

of the groups they were representing. Some chil-

dren also placed the manipulatives as per the divi-

sion sentence given to them.

This activity was followed by a discussion of key

words on a mind map.

English

Guided Reading session in class Silent reading in class

“Today a reader, tomorrow a Leader”

Grade 3 children have taken to reading with much

gusto. Very often, reading is followed by various

interesting tasks (rather than the usual question

and answer comprehension) which enables to

check the comprehension levels of the children and

to make them develop an interest in deep reading.

As a class, guided reading is a favourite activity

which also focuses on phonics when necessary.

Sometimes children read aloud to their peers and

at other times they enjoy a silent reading session.

Grade: 3


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iPad Research

Students working on the iPads.

Children in grade 3 use their iPads to carry out

research for UOI or English. In preparation for the

second line of inquiry “transformation of energy”

the children independently found the necessary

content on the iPad. They thoroughly enjoyed be-

ing self learners and always look forward to inde-

pendent research.

ESL Exhibition

Students inquisitively having a glance at the exhibits

Grade 3 children had an overwhelming feeling of

wonder and admiration when they visited the ESL

students’ exhibition.

The ESL students from Thailand had displayed vari-

ous art work in their exhibits as part of their learn-

ing journey and our third graders acknowledged

the hard work and their artistic skills.

Grade 3 Assembly

Grade 3 assembly

After weeks of practice, Grade 3 showcased their

Love and Support for animals by a wonderful dis-

play of Drama, and Dance on “World Animal Day”.

The script for the play was developed by the stu-

dents as part of their routine drama class. Choos-

ing to personally be a part of the script rather than

being told what to do exhibited the attribute of

true PYP students.

Grade: 3


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UOI

Students listing out all the celebra-tions celebrated in India

Students celebrating Diwali in school by creating a Rangoli

Grade 2 has been enjoying learning through the

unit ‘Celebrations’ . They celebrated Dussehra,

Diwali, Halloween and many more occasions with

great enthusiasm. They are learning how people

express themselves through Celebrations imbibing

values and traditions and the significance of each

celebration. They are learning how to be open

minded, respectful and appreciate everybody's tra-

ditions, culture and beliefs.

Math

Math whiteboard Activities and Games

Students working with beads to learn addition and subtraction

In Math, we are focusing on 3 digit Addition and

Subtraction problems. The students enjoy working

out problems on the whiteboard and with various

math games which leads to better understanding

and caters to the multiple intelligences of the stu-

dents. Math addition and subtraction word prob-

lems are challenging and a story format is used to

help students understand them. Beads and other

manipulatives are regularly used to improve the

understanding of the students.

English

Descriptive writing - Here the stu-dents are using their 5 senses to de-scribe a lamp

Describing a bunch of flowers - The student here is about to describe flowers in 5 sentences

Grade 2 have been working on improving their

descriptive writing skills . The students started off

using their 5 senses to describe an object. They

chose their own objects and wrote a descriptive

paragraph using their senses. Objects such as

lamps, flowers, hard bound books, plastic bowls

etc. were chosen by the students to describe and

write. Other interesting activities like closing their

eyes, imagining a scenario and writing short para-

graphs were some of the fun ways they enjoyed

learning descriptive writing.

Grade: 2


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ESL Exhibition

Students attending ESL Art exhibition

Grade 2 attended the ESL Art exhibition and had a

fun time enjoying all the artwork displayed by the

ESL students. The ESL students had worked on

various art forms and displayed them. Grade 2

students had the pleasure of enjoying Warli art,

paintings—both abstract and modern. They

showed lot of interest and were inquirers by asking

questions.

Diwali celebrations

Students celebrating Dusshera in school

Grade 2 participated in the Dussehra and Diwali

dance as part of the celebrations in school. This

integrated well with their unit on Celebrations.

They had great fun and participated in all the activi-

ties with enthusiasm.

Joy of Giving

The Joy of Giving - The students experienced the joy of giving

This Diwali, students of Grade 2 experienced the

‘Joy of Giving’ by giving away their used clothes,

toys and books to the underprivileged. They also

took a pledge to burst fewer crackers to reduce

pollution. Creating beautiful Rangolis, distributing

sweets, participating in dances, learning about the

significance of Diwali etc. were some of the ways

they celebrated Diwali in school.

Grade: 2

Students celebrated Diwali by giving away used clothes and toys


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UOI

Food production chain From farm to table

“Food comes from the grocery store, of course!”

At least that’s what my students always told me at

the beginning of our unit. Children understood the

process involved in making a food product and the

human made systems by which it is supplied to the

consumers. Using many strategies like ‘See, Think,

Wonder’ , ‘Think, Pair and Share’ in the class to

study about the functions of these human made

systems created a spark in children to wonder

about the food production chain. Exploring differ-

ent food products and hands on experience of

making some recipes created an enthusiastic

atmosphere in the class.

Math

Using the Place Value Mats Arranging beads to count ones and tens

While all the numbers have a place, they also have

a value. The value of a number is based on the

place the digit is in. Using the place value mats

helped the students to understand the concept of

place value. In pairs, they chose different numbers

and arranged the beads to find the place value of

the chosen number by doing activities like “Place a

pile of them on a table and show that it is easier

to count them in groups of ten.” “ First make

groups of ten, then count the ten-groups and the

individual beads separately. Say, "I have five ten-

groups on the table and four individual beads."

English

Keep cool and drink lemonade Can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man

Descriptive writing : Capturing an event

through descriptive writing involves paying close

attention to the details by using all of your five

senses. Grade 1 has been making different food

products in class. Popcorn, gingerbread man cook-

ies, lemonade and sandwiches are some of the reci-

pes that the students enjoyed making in class. They

followed step-by-step instructions to complete the

recipe which also helped them to learn procedural

writing.

Grade: 1


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Halloween

It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!

To celebrate Halloween, students came dressed up

in fancy costumes and collected many candies as

part of “trick or treat”. With lots of enthusiasm

they participated in decorating the classroom. We

had a Spectacular story time watching the story of

Mr Froggy and Peppa Pig celebrating Halloween.

“A toothy grin is always fun, why not end it up with

carving a Halloween pumpkin”, students had the

carved pumpkin displayed in the class.

Diwali celebrations

‘The festival of lights’

The celebration of Diwali ,'The festival of lights'

came alive when everyone wore festive outfits to

school. During the assembly, students divulged the

essence of the festival by dancing on the tune of

‘Sri Ram Stuthi’. Besides sensitizing students to the

ill-effects of crackers, they shared the guidelines on

how to be safe while bursting them. Colouring the

Diwali cards added the perfect setting to the festiv-

ities.

Creating the food corner

Food corner

Grade 1 has created a food corner in the class-

room to display different varieties of food prod-

ucts. This corner gave a lot of space for inquiry as

students became curious to know where these

food products come from and how they are

grown? How the companies make so many packets

and give it to the supermarkets?

As a part of inquiry, the process of germination

was shown to the students by putting fenugreek

seeds in a tray and some vegetables in water pots

to see the roots growing.

Grade: 1

Who do seeds become plants?


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UOI

Student presenting a chart on topic “ All about myself”

Math

Students sorting out vehicles according to the various modes.

To culminate the first unit, Grade K2 was

involved in an activity to present a chart

about themselves.

They started their new unit on the theme-

“Transportation systems”. They learnt about

transports and different modes of transport.

They looked around in school for signs and

symbols and learnt few basic road signs. Each

child was asked to bring a toy related to the

unit and was asked to talk about it and share

it with their friends.

Students learning to sequence numbers visually for differenti-ated activity.

Student solving addition question

Concept of Indian money was introduced to

the students where they role-played a shop-

ping activity to buy toys using play money.

Through this activity, students were engaged

in learning math operations like addition and

subtraction. They started off learning with

manipulatives like blocks, pencils and objects,

moving on to single digit addition.

English

Students reading 3 letter words independently and sticking the

right word to right picture.

Student sorting picture card under Verb and Noun basket

Grade K2 have understood the ways to

blend 3-4 letter words. They have started to

blend sounds to make words through various

activities like matching word to a picture,

dictations, reading phonics books, reading

the sounds and drawing related pictures.

They were also involved in activities to learn

Verbs and Nouns. To show their under-

standing they sorted out picture cards and

matched them with verbs and nouns.

Grade: K2

Students identifying money and buying their transport

toy.

Student matching the picture cards


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Developing Research Skills

Students watching video about vehicles and road signs.

Students are beginning to learn how to find

information and where to find it. We had a

brainstorming session about what we want

to find out, then came up with various

sources of information. They looked for

information in books, watched videos ,

looked around in immediate environment

and also spoke to their peers.

Halloween

Halloween was celebrated with great en-

thusiasm on 31st Oct. Students were

shown a video to understand the origin of

Halloween. They had fun dressing up and

going for trick or treating in different clas-

ses.

K2 Masterpieces

Student showing the understanding to use specific vehicles for the places he /she often travels.

Grade K2 is constantly being encouraged

to illustrate and express their understand-

ing through creative illustrations. Few of

the masterpieces of our budding artists

are a delight to watch.

Grade: K2

Students spotting the speed limit sign in school campus.

Students during Halloween celebration.


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UOI

Students proudly displaying the plants grown in individ-ual cups

Grade K1 children have started their Unit of In-

quiry on the Plant Kingdom. They were excited to

take a nature walk through the school campus and

learned about different types of plants. They in-

vestigated on how a plant grows from a seed

through a germination activity and were enthralled

to see and learn about the seeds sprouting into

little plants.

Math

Children learning all about making pat-terns with shapes

What comes after? Children attentively sequencing numbers from 1-10

Grade K1 was involved in various activities to

learn different mathematical concepts. They

learned how to sequence numbers from 1-10 by

using manipulatives and number cards.

They also became aware that simple patterns can

be found and created by pasting shape cut-outs

English

Children are learning to ‘blend’ sounds from the Jolly Phonics groups to read two and three letter words

Children expressing themselves freely during the Show and Tell Activity by shar-ing interesting facts about their toy

During Circle Time, students of Grade K1 were

involved in Show and Tell Activities. They brought

different toys from home and spoke about them to

their peers. They were encouraged to express

themselves freely about their favourite toy.

Grade: K1

Plants need seed, soil, sunshine and water to

grow!

Children were excited to look at the seeds found in

the fruits from the garden


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Deepawali

Children making cards for Deepawali

Grade K1 was involved in an activity to make

greeting cards for the Deepawali celebrations held

in the school. They enjoyed pasting diya cut-outs

and sprinkling glitter on them and were proud to

take the cards home as ‘take home’ craft

Halloween

Colourful Halloween Decorations made by the students

Students participated for Halloween Celebrations

enthusiastically. They came dressed to school in

colourful costumes. They made different craft

items for Halloween Celebrations. They painted

paper plates to make spiders and coloured cut-outs

of bats and pumpkins to create spooky decorations

for their class!

Planting Activity

Children engrossed in planting seeds in the school garden.

As part of ‘Investigate and Create’ stage in the

Inquiry Cycle, children planted tiny seeds in a patch

designated for them in the school garden and took

care to water it regularly. Now they are eagerly

waiting for the seeds to germinate !

Grade: K1

Colourful Diyas being pasted on cards .

The little wizards and witches of K1 waiting eagerly for the Trick or Treat activity

Plants need water to survive! So we need to water them regularly.


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UOI

Fabiana seems to be busy knowing about the animals that stay in the

jungle.

Students are busy seeing a picture

book on wild animals

Grade Pre K started with their second Unit Of

Inquiry where they were involved in learning about

various animals from the animal kingdom. They

sorted animals and classified them using cut and

paste activity.

Math

Students are counting and colouring the circles

Rohann is busy in doing his assessment on numbers

The kids of Pre K had a busy month counting and

identifying the numbers till 10. They were frequent-

ly assessed and are doing well in the class. Many art

and craft activities are conducted for them to learn

numbers in a meaningful way.

English

Priyadatha is busy colouring the letter P

Assessments conducted to assess fine motor skill development

This month students are busy learning the sounds.

They also had assessments to assess their fine mo-

tor skills development

Grade: Nursery


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Fine motor skills development

Play dough Activity

Fine motor skills development-

Students are engaged in an activity of rolling pins

to develop their fine motor skills. Students use

these materials to develop muscles in fingers and

hand which later improves their pencil holding grip.

Concept of Big and Small

Building a tower

Pink tower

Engineers in the making! The children of Nursery

enjoyed a lot when they were asked to arrange the

pink tower. They loved to be engaged in the activi-

ty independently. They learned the concepts of big

& small and balancing from this activity.

Halloween Day Celebration

Halloween

Halloween Celebrations-

The young ones of SNIS were super excited to

celebrate Halloween .

They coloured scary pumpkins and went to each

and every grade to collect their treat. It was one of

their best days as they got a bucket full of choco-

lates.

Grade: Nursery

Rolling Pins

Balancing

Trick or Treat


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Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Student writing few lines on learner profiles relating to drama.

Showing expressions Practicing a skit on celebrations. Learning about different parts of the

stage.

Drama Activities

Student describing her story based on learner profile.

Students preparing a skit in groups based on learner profiles. Students performing a skit based on learner profiles.


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Grade 4

Grade 5

Students writing few lines on learner profiles related to drama Students watching a video named “Never Give Up” to learn differ-

ent expressions

Students writing stories on behavior. Student writing a script independently Students writing scripts out of their stories based on behavior.

Grade Kindergarten

Drama Activities

KG1 Students practicing animal walk. KG2 Students practicing different levels of

voice. Nursery Students practicing expressions.


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Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Students are trying to make a music band. Students starting to learn Guitar and Percussions.

Students are learning basic keyboard notes and guitar notes Students starting to learn basic violin

Students are practicing Kannada anthem chords Students are learning basic chords in a keyboard

Music Activities


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Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade Kindergarten

Students learning to play national anthem. Students practicing different scales

Students jamming electro music. Students are learning small wood’s lesson.

Students starting to identify 4 notes in a keyboard.

Students involved in a concert Students practicing a basic scale in keyboard

Music Activities


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Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Bhangra steps Basic Bhangra steps

Basic steps of Bhangra dance Bhangra dance routine

Students are learning Aerobic steps for sports day. Students are learning Zumba for sports day.

Dance Activities


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Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade Kindergarten

Students learning the Indo-Jazz dance in Hanuman Chalisa Afro-Jump step.

Students learning contemporary dance (Song– mai teri chunnariya leherai)

Students learning about the lifts in dance.

Free style dance with coordination Rock ’n’ Roll Dance. Using claps in Rock & Roll dance.


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Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Making a tree using shapes. Painting the background of their choice.

Artwork on Diwali

Students' working on Halloween Craft– Celebrations Making Scary Owl—Halloween Craft

Students work on Diwali Celebrations Students making Halloween craft basket for collecting sweets.

Art Activities


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Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade Kindergarten

Imaginary drawing on topic “Myself on a Rainy Day” Painting the background

Students art work on landscape designing Landscape designing

K1 Students’ activities on their UOI “Food” Nursery Student’s work on coloring activity– Lion.

K2 Students Art work on Owl using Shapes


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General Physical Fitness

Gross Motor Skills development

Physical Fitness Physical Fitness

Tennikoit Kangaroo Race

Physical Education Activities

General Warm-ups

Warm up Warm up


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Swimming

Leg Back Kick Leg kick

Badminton

Wall Practice Shuttle Practice

Indoor Games

Chess

Physical Education Activities


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