Grade 5 Dragons!

Busy week this week! MS Parent Meeting (Monday), MS Step-Up Day (Wednesday), Bridge Challenges, Poetry, Playground Plans, Mandala Maths etcetc AND

At the start of the year, we set a goal of 1500 visitors to our blog (500 hits more than last year’s G5 class). Now, with only 3 weeks to go… guess how many visits we have had (don’t cheat!)…?!  SOOOO – we have had posts from all around the world, from 6 of the [...]

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YES! That’s us…! Any suggestions or tips from our world-wide friends & family members…?!

We are all well into our research & preparation for the Mini-Exhibition BUT just try one thing…: GO TO ‘Mashpedia‘ and do a search for your topic NOW!!! It searches through ‘Twitter,’ ‘Youtube,’ ‘Wikipedia,’ ‘Digg,’ the news & MORE for current info on your topic – GREAT stuff Let us know how it goes… Do [...]

Hope you all had a wonderful break! An exciting time for the G5 students – we have started our culminating event of Elementary School: the PYP mini-Exhibition…! Some of the tools that our Grade 5′s could make use of (hint hint g5dragons!) include: video reflections: much better than having to write everything down! Google Custom Search: very [...]

While I was looking through some GREAT student blogs from Hong Kong Academy and Shanghai American School I came across Andrew’s Weebly site. It looks like he is doing an Exhibition right now too and had embedded this fun cartoon about wasting energy from youtube:

Over the past week, we have been reflecting on the G5 Camp 2010. Below is Jang Woo’s ‘animoto‘ that he made – does anyone else want to share? Send me the ‘embed code’! Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

One of our classmates, Richard, sadly left to back home to South Africa today… BUT we know our paths will cross again…! Share your positive & appropriate comments here! AND can anyone put Richard back together again…!??! I used the jigsaw tool on flash-gear to make this.

GWA (our school!) have been voting on the design of the dragon logo for our school mascot. Here are the choices – which would YOU choose?