Ms Courtney's Class

Welcome Back! I hope you had a wonderful New Year. This week saw the start of our fourth unit of inquiry, Where we are in Place and Time. Central Idea: Artifacts help us to understand how societies have changed. Lines of Inquiry: The different sources we use as evidence Evidence of change over time Evidence helps us to understand where we live Concepts: Change, Function, Reflection, Discovery, History, Civilizations Provocation On Friday four teachers brought three artifacts to school that represented something about themselves. The students had to look at the artifacts and try and dedice which artifacts belonged to which teacher. Can you guess? The teachers are Mr Johnny, Ms Karyn, Ms Petra and Ms Courtney. As the students returned from languages on Wednesday they had found that the classroom had became an archaeology site. The students observed the artifacts they found, recorded where they found them and used the clues to understand the artifacts. ...

Dear Parents,  We have started our How We Organize Ourselves unit. The Central Idea is: "Humans prepare and respond to changes in the Earth."  If either yourself or someone you know has any experience with working for organizations who do this type of work or you have personally experienced an Earthquake, Landslide, Volcano or Tsunami and would like to be a guest speaker in our class please let me know. Students love the opportunity to listen to guest speakers and can learn so much from them.  Provocation We started our new unit on Wednesday with a provocation. While the students were at Foreign Language or Mother Tongue lesson we messed up the classroom and their bags. There was paper, books, pencils and furniture everywhere. We recorded the students as they returned to class and wanted to see how their felt and what their response to the situation was. Once the classroom was cleaned up we talked about the emotions we felt and how we responded. A...