Our field trip to Lalbagh

5th grade went on a field trip to Lalbagh for a special programme called "Bangalore Walks". We had to walk a lot. We got jute bags and notebooks on what we will be doing. We were supposed start at 06:30 but started 1 hour later at 07:30. Never mind. We started from school at 07:30 and reached Villa Del Mar at 08:00. From there it took about half an hour to reach Lalbagh. In Lalbagh we got a persn who works for bangalore walks. Her name was Rupa. The first thing we did after reaching was that we got our goodies and breakfast while miss Rupa told us about Lalbagh and how it was created. It was created by Hyder Ali but mainly taken care by his son Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan used to tell his messengersto get sapplings of as many plants they can to be planted in his beloved Lalbagh. After eating our breakfast we started our nature walk. We started with our first exercise. We went to 8 diffrent trees and had to write about it. We had to write which tree was it, the first things we noticed, the next things noticed, how will I remember it and what will we name it. We saw the Peepal tree, Ficus Mysore, Silk cotton tree, Sita-Ashoka tree, Sausage tree from Kenya, Chickenpox tree, Sisal tree and Buttercup Krishna. We even got to trace tree trunks of the chickenpox tree and sisal tree on a peice of paper. The buttercup Krishna tree was the most interesting tree seen during the field trip. After that we sat for a while and ate some snacks. After sometime we continued and reached 2 gardens which were called the Lalbagh gardens. We plyed a game where we were in groups of 4s or 5s. I was with Nehal, Misha, Ana and Shreya. The game was about going around the garddens and collecting the habitats (from where they are) and write it. We got18 countries. After that we headed towards the lake we saw 2 lakes, 1 we just passed through and at the other one we stopped for another exercise. In this exercise we had to use are listening skills. We had to list the we could hear and then list the sounds which were pleasant which you wished would go away. After sometime we started our walk to the last and final place, the tallest tree in Lalbagh where we did a little bit of tree trunk climbing. After an half an hour ofplay we had a final discussion about what we did during the whole day. This was one of the best Field trip ever been to.

Megha Goel
V-A
Indus International School

reflection on 'the day after tommorow

in school, we watched a movie called 'the day after tommorow'. we watched it because it was realated to global warming. it is about all kinds of things that will happen to the earth once global warming takes over the world. in the movie there is a teenage guy called sam who goes to new york city with his girl friend and another guy. new york floods and he calls his dad, who sets off too rescue him. in the mean time new york freezes and everyone is cold. they are trapped in a library and have to burn books to stay warm. his dad, jack finally makes it and rescues them. they go to shelter in a helicopter.
this movie shows what will happen if global warming overcomes us all but i think that the director is just a mean person eho is trying to scare people.
by rhea 5a

PYP Exhibition So Far

  The PYP Exhibition is going great so far. Instead 0f being in the Global Warming group I have changed to the Drugs Abuse group. I find this a very interesting topic because many people all over the world die because of drugs even children. So far we have created our Unit Title, Central Idea, and our Inquiry points, which are 1-What are Drugs, 2-How do they work, 3-How are Drugs abused, 4-How do they Addict, and 5-How can we stay away from them. We are working on a play and I have made a song on drug abuse, it goes like this,

"D is for demolishing everybody's life's, R is for rehab centers, U is for underaged addicts, and G is for gross changes, CHANGES!!! The tune is the same as the EMO song. We are practically done with all our research and moved on to our Action Plans. So we still have a long way to go so were going to work really hard.

                                                            By: VARCHAS V. RAMAN   

PYP Exhibition 5A!

Grade 5 of Indus International School is doing a PYP Exhibition. There are many groups for burning issues effecting Earth, those groups are:
Drug Abuse
Global Warming, Pollution
Endangered Animals
AIDS, HIV
And Saving Monuments
I am in the Drug Abuse group. Many people think its no good learning about such things at this age but I think that its important that I let many people how drugs can effect you. I've been enjoying researching on the effects which drugs cause. And I plan to continue researching.

Hugo 5A <(-_-)> :P :)

the pyp exibhition

The pyp exibition is an event held by all IBO schools in the world. Grade 5 is still working on the exibhition. We have been divded into diffrent groups. We have all chosen burning issues.
The groups are global warming & pollution, durg abuse, destroying monuments , endangerd animals & hiv\ aids .The global warming group have made a play & a dance.we get time in the UOI period to work on it .
we have also watched the movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.It is great fun working as a group.
nayantara

Reflection About The Movie Called "The Day After Tomorrow"

On the 22nd of April 2008 which is also known as Earth Day, grade 5 both A and B watched a movie called “The Day after Tomorrow”.
It is about a teenaged boy called Sam who goes through global warming. The movie shows all kinds of things that would happen if we continue Global Warming such as big chunks of ice falling from the sky as much as rain, lots of tornadoes everywhere, enormous floods that covers a whole city (New York), worst of all the three very very big hurricanes that would become bigger and bigger every minute and that would cover ALL the land on Earth in just a few hours. Which would mean – it’ll be over. Everything will be destroyed and flooded. But in the movie, at the end, Jack (Sam’s father) finds Sam and his friends and stops everything.
I really liked the movie even though I already watched it. Some parts were scary, some were a bit romantic, and others were relaxing.
By watching the movie, whoever is watching it will get a feeling that we really should stop global warming if ours and our future generation’s life values.

Ana

Working on the Exhibition

21/4/08
Monday

Today Misha, Zoish, and I made a survey about Earth Day, pollution, and global warming. We have put many questions in the survey. Tommorrow, we will give out our surveys to Grade 5A and to some more adults.

Nehal

About The PYP Exhibition
For our PYP Exhibition we are doing many different topics, such as

• Pollution
• Global Warming
• Drugs
• Endangered Animals
• Aids

Most people like me are in Global Warming, Our Central Idea: Global Waarming is a serious threat to the Earth and it is our responsibility to stop pollution to prevent global warming and save our planet

Let me tell a bit about it.

Global Warming is the gradual increase in the Earth's avrage temprature.

Pollution contributes to Global Warming because pollution creates gases, which traps the Sun's heat, gradually making the earth hotter.

Thank You,

Alexander Goes

PYP EXIBITION 2

Hi the pyp exibition is coming soon so far my group has everything but action we have not taken any action and we are planning to. I am also planning to take action on my own. i am planning to put up posters of drugs on the poles . I hope i can make a web site becuase then educated people can read it. If i put my posters about drugs in india then people who dont speak english or who cant read wont understand things. That is why im going to need people who speak different languages. by riken desai

Working on the PYP Exhibition

20/4/2008
Sunday

Grade 5A have been working on the PYP Ehibition a lot. There are many things that I have done so far-

• I have been working on my PYP Powerpoint in which I will show everything about PYP (Indus vision, attitudes, profiles, skills, etc.).
• I have also been researching and documenting a lot about pollution and global warming.
• I also went to Misha's house to work on the exhibition. We have planned our own website and a collage about pollution and global warming.
• We have also coreographed our dance on global warming and pollution.

Nehal Rawat

PYP EXIBITION

We are talking about drugs before I talked to you about Drugs well the Pyp Exibition is something where you should know about the Pyp Me and my group did many things we mad a play which was on drugs it is uncompleted but will be completed soon. we made a song D is for dimolishing every bodys lives ,R is for rehab center , U is for underaged adicts and G is for gross changes ,CHANGES ,DONT TAKE IT. BY RIKEN

The PYP Exhibition

The PYP Exhibition is a grand affair where the 5th graders have to do everything and the teachers only guide us. We (5th grdrs.) had started to talk about the PYP exhibition from the 31st of March which was the 1st time Miss Poonam and Miss Laxmi told us abut it. That day we even had started off with brain storming some burning issues which are being caused globally and after brain storming some ideas we had to pick 1 topic and write about it. by the 2nd to 4th day we decided that we all will not do the same topic we can do the topic we write about it. We came down to these topics:

• Endangered animals,
• Pollution leading to Global Warming,
• Drugs, and
• Aids.

I am in the Pollution leads toGlobal Warming.Soon after that we started making our unit title, central idea and inquiry points. very soon after that we finalized our unit title, central idea and inquiry points.
Theme: Sharing the planet.
Unit title: Only Sollution. Stop Pollution.
Cental idea: : Global warming is a serious threat to the Earth, and it is our responsibility to stop pollution in order to prevent global warming and save our planet.
Inquiry points:
· What is global warming?
· What is pollution?
· How does pollution lead to global warming?
· How does it affect us?
· What is our responsibility to reduce pollution and global warming?
· What are the changes which are being caused due to pollution and global warming?
· What will happen to us if global warming continues for the next 10 years?
· Why and how is it caused?
· What are the points of view of the people about pollution and global warming?

we have even been taliking abut the profiles, attitudes, concepts, skills and pther things in PYP. We have been doing many thinngs as a group and as an individual. We have been sharing sites, Ideas on Unit titles,central ideas, inquiry points, how best might we learn,assigned each other responsibilities, shared actions etc.etc.we were supposed to make our own inquiry points. The inquiry points above are the nes i have made on my own and i have started working towards it, I have started my individual research. I have even made a plan about what I wat to do and things like that. I have made 2 planners on my action plan, 1 word and 1 ppt about PYP. on the final day each group has to present it in atleast 3 ways out of these .they are-dance, drama, poems/songs, charts,p.p.t's. We have already started our work with the dance and the drama.I even have some ideas on what we could wear on the exhibition day and what all can we do to make people aware about this burning issue.A few ideas are:

• Talk to people and ask them to spread it around.
• Put up posters around school
• start a campaign against pollution and global warming

A few ideas for what we could wear on the exhibition's day or when we go for some feild trips are:

• T-shirts-(Save the Earth)/(Stop Pollution and Global Warming)/(any other slogan)
• Badges-(Save the Earth)/(any other slogan)
• Wrist bands-(Save the Earth)/(any other slogan)
• Caps-(Save the Earth)/(any other slogan)

I am very excited and look forward for the exhibition.

Megha Goel
V-A
Indus International School

Our PYP exhibition

The PYP Exhibition
The PYP exhibition is a huge occasion were grade 5 exhibits what they have learnt in their UOI topic, which was chosen by them. WE exhibit our topic in dances, dramas, songs, a poem, and charts.
The topics that we (grade 5) decided we are going to study about are;
Endangered animals
Pollution
Global warming
I’m in the global warming group and the Central Idea we have kept is, Global warming is a serious threat to the earth, it is our responsibility to stop pollution, in order to prevent global warming and save the earth.
I’m very exited and I have started choreographing a dance with my friends, and I am looking forward to the exhibition!
By:SHREYA

Hi Guys

Hi people!
This is Emily King. How is school? I just got in cause I just remembered about this blog thing. So how is everyone?
Say hi to Mrs. Poonam for me!
Bye!
Emliy King

Today I had been working on a power point presentation about PYP-stuff. It was really fun to do it, because I haven`t done something like that before. I did alot of cool things in it. I want to do it again!

By Sara 5A

What we did today

Grade 5A researched on their topics for 2 periods on the laptops.
Then, miss read us an article about sea turtles that were killed by TATA so their population were decreasing. And also about tons of oil tanks on boats that cracks and are all poured in the seas so it kills many animals. It killed about 3,000 birds. There is also about people writing "save the Earth" and etc. on chimneys and boats. So in 5 days time, they got arrested and put into jail. But not far from the jail, water was covering the land.

Ana

Being Brainy Beans

Today we did a lot of research on the laptops. Me and Nehal planned our collage and website. We gave each other quizes on global warming and pollution.

There are lots of activities we are doing like a play and a dance. I am in the dance.

Misha

The PYP Exebhiton Plan

16th Mrs.Poonam was a little bit mad at Drug Group because we just researched more about drugs so we had change are inquiry points a little here are the following inqury points which we have changed. What are the conciquences when we take drugs How we can prevent drugs How drugs can be addicted Our group has researched alot we have so many points. We tryong to get morer points and we are making a skit about drug dealers,drug addicters etc.... Our group members are Ritesh,Karan,Pranav,Hugo,Riken,Nikhel and Rohit By:Rohit Mohan 5A

Preparing for the PYP exhibition

The whole of grade 5 has been working so hard on the PYP exhibiton. We have already made a central idea and inquiry points which we are researching on. The topic I am working on is pollution and glodal warming. Some girls are doing a dance while me and other people are doing a musical on global warming. It is really fun working for the exhibition and we have already got so many ideas on what to do. The main thing about this is to bring awareness to everyone to stop polluting the Earth because it is harming us. I think the exhibition is going to be so much fun.

Zoish

What we prepared for the PYP Exhibition so far

Grade V has done quite a lot, for the past 2 and 1/2 weeks. Every body is working so hard.

This is what I did so far:

• Decided a topic - pollution
• Made a Theme, Unit Title, Central Idea and Inquiry points
• Searched the internet
• Decided to do a play
• Exchanged good sites with class mates
• Learned the attitudes, concepts, learner profile, etc.
• Made a Plan/Timeline
• Decided things I’ll do
• Decided to make a presentation in French
• Wrote what I wanted to learn
• Read books and newspapers
• Decided to watch a movie called “The Day After Tomorrow”
• Talk to parents

What my plan is to:

• Keep on researching and answering my inquiry points
• Start to make my French chart
• Write a blog, everyday
• Get over with preparing the play

Ana Choi

The PYP Exhibition

Our class, 5A has started discussing about the PYP Exhibition. We started it on March 31st. On the first day, we individually thought thought of all the burning issues in the world. Then in class, we discussed our points with everyone else and we finalsized on four topics:

• Pollution resulting in Global Warming
• Drugs
• Aids/HIV
• Endangered Animals

I decided to be in the global warming group. In our groups, we had to decide our central idea and inquiry points. It was a long process. But soon we finalized on...

Central Idea-

Global warming is a seroius threat to the Earth, and it is our responsibiltiy to stop pollution in order to prevent global warming and save our planet.

Inquiry Points:

• What is pollution?
• What is the effect of pollution?
• What is global warming?
• How does pollution lead to global warming?
• What changes in the world are being caused by global warming?
• What is our responsibility in order to help prevent global warming?

Now, we are reasearching on our inquiry points. Misha and I have decided to make a collage with pictures, etc. For the exhibition, I am also doing a dance with Misha, Shreya, Tejaswini, Megha, Abhilasha, and Sunanda. The PYP Exhibition is going to be a lot of fun!!!

Nehal Rawat-5A

Our PYP Exhibition on Drugs

Our PYP Exhibition topic is Drugs. My team members are Nikhil, Rohit, Vishnu, Hugo, Ritesh, Riken and me. We are doing a song and a play on drugs. My topic is Tobacco. My inquiry points are :
1. What are drugs?
2. How do they work?
3. How are drugs abused?
4. How do people get addicted to drugs?
5. How can we stay away from drugs?

Pranav Ramesh
5A

Preparing for the PYP Exhibition

I am in the group Global Warming and Pollution. I have done research on the inquiry points which my group and I had chosen. I am also planning to do a collage with Nehal that has pictures etc. We have also been given the task of making our own website on Global Warming and Pollution.

So far I like the PYP Exhibition and I want to do a good job. I also want to aim to learn all the PYP profiles, concepts and attitudes.

Misha

The PYP Exhibitionon on Drugs

Our group is currently working on our PYP exhibition on drugs. My group has already started researching and making action plans. All of out inquiry points are based on the PYP concepts.

The members in my group are Ritesh, Varchas, Karan, Riken, Rohit, Nikhil, Pranav, Vishnu and me. So far we have started a small skit on drugs and a few songs. We are specifically researching on:
a) What drugs are
b) The harmful effects of drugs
c) The different types of drugs
d) How drugs are made
e) Why drugs are addictive
f) How people can resist drugs
I hope we continue to research and one day take action to actively increase awareness on the topic. I also hope we can build our teamwork skills and make the PYP Exhibition a huge hit.

By Nikhil Kapur
5A

The PYP Exhibition (Our preparation)

We have started researching in our gruops. We have also started researching individually. This topic is one of the most important topic because we have to form the the unit title, the central idea and the inquiry points. We use the PYP concepts to form all these things. While forming all this we show the PYP profile and the PYP attitudes. Some people who showed the PYP profiles were-
Shreya-Risk taker
Faizan-Risk taker
Pranav-Risk taker
We all showed the attitudes like, when Shreya presented her power point presentation we showed the attitude of appreciation and also when Pranav recited his poem we all appreciated him for his work.
Everyone is preparing for a skit or a dance or writing a poem.
Tejaswini
5-A

Our PYP exibition (preparing)

All over the world the PYP schools, 5th grade prepares an exhibition. In Indus International school we decided to do the following topics:

• Pollution
• Global Warming
• Drugs
• Endangered animals
• HIV Aids

We started to make our central idea and inquiry points. I am in the pollution group. We started researching on our topics and now we are making plays, songs, poems etc. T he central idea for the Pollution/Global warming group is:

"Global Warming is a serious threat to the Earth, and it is our responsibility to stop Pollution in order to prevent Global Warming to our planet."

Inquiry Points:

• What is pollution?
• What is Global Warming?
• How does pollution cause global warming?
• What changes are being caused by global warming?
• What can we do to save our Earth?
• What other things is pollution causing?
• How does pollution effect us?
• What happens if global warming continues for the next 10 years?
• What is our responsibility to stop pollution and global warming?

The class would like to appreciate:

Rhea: For making wonderful blogs, making most of the inquiry points and making a power point presentation.

Faizan: taking pictures of pollution

Pranav: making a poem

Sara : Making a song for the class

Shreya : Making a exellent power point.

by Adrianne Satish

Our musical about pollution and global warming

Today, 15/4/08, we havew decided on our musical about pollution and global warming. I was a great Risk-taker, 'cause I tryed to make a song for the musical, and then sang it for my group. They liked it, so now the son is one of the songs in the musical.
Here is the songtext:
On our Earth, we have a lot of good things! We have flowers, we have mountains, and we also have a blue sky! Refrain: Yeah, we have all you can wish! Yeah, we have all you can wish for!
We have open fields, we have green grass, and we also have blue water!
Refrain: Yeah, we have all you can wish! Yeah, we have all you can wish for!

That was my song.
Now I will answer my inquairy points, and maybe practise for the play.

By Sara Berglund 5A

pyp exhibition

IN grade 5a in Indus international school, me and our group are doing it on GLOBAL WARMING does that ring a bell if it does i hope you have done something about it because if you haven't this is what you can do:

1. plant tree's in your garden
2. use diesel in your car
3. don't throw rubbish on the floor ( there are dustbins around, they are there for a purpose)
4. If you see rubbish around pick it up don't leave it.
5. keep your local area clean

we also are doing a play on global warming!

and next week we are going on a field trip

sacha

5a

Preparing for the PYP Exhibition

In Gr. 5, we have started to preparing for the PYP Exhibition. After the Easter holidays, we started to choose an issue. Some people choose global warming, some pollution, drugs and animals in danger. My choice was pollution.

Now we have choose our central idea, inquiry points and a part of our plan.
This is our central idea:
"Global warming is a serious threat to the Earth, and it is our responsibility to stop pollution, in order to prevent global warming, and save our planet."

This is our inquiry points:
-What is pollution?
-What is global warming?
-How does pollution lead to global warming?
-What change in the world are being caused by global warming?
-What can we do to save our Earth?
-What other things is pollution causing?
-How does pollution effect us?

There is a lot of things we have to do before The Exhihibition.

By Sara Berglund 5a

How We are Preparing for the PYP Exhibition

Grade 5A started to prepare for the PYP exhibition much later than other schools but there will be no problem to catch up. We were all supposed to start 2 months ago (January).

We started straight after the Easter holidays, on Monday (the day I was absent). While I was absent, my classmates chose a burning issue and wrote about it (and I did it on April 3rd). All of us chose different topics: global warming, pollution, endangered and extinct animals, drugs and aids were chosen. The topic I chose was pollution. We also decided a theme, unit title, central idea and inquiry points.

After researching about our burning issues, we will write poems, and play scripts. And we'll make charts and we might even sing and dance.

The PYP Exhibition will be a great day for all of us in our school!!!!! :)

Ana Choi

How we got started

PYP Exhibition for 5th Grade

Right now it is a big moment for fifth grade because of the PYP Exhibition. We have been recently told this. For what we now we will be deciding what our topic will be and we will make the central idea and the inquiry points. The topic will be on a burning issue that is happening all over the world or just in India. After some voting wen have narrowed it down to Global Warming or Pollution. I am going to go for Global Warming. They are both almost the same thing because Global Warming is caused by pollution. So for the PYP Exhibition we are going to do lots of things like, make posters, make presentations, having a play, some singing and even dancing. This will almost be as big as Indus Day. But what ever we do its going to be fun.

by: Varchas Raman