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