Work in progress: stall set up

I love the way the polar bear is keeping a close eye over the proceedings. After all his life is at stake here!!!

The Agents of Change!

Vivian

Megan

Caleb

Katie

NERVOUS

Tomorrow is the exhibition and everyone is nervous including me. I still think we will do great.

If you do live around at the coast, please do try your best to come and see our Year 6 AKA,M exhibition 2011. We welcome all!

DETAILS:

Venue: Aga Khan ACademy, Mombasa
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Title: Stay With Us Nature.

WISH US LUCK!
Thanks,
Vivian

Spreading the word

busy bees

ExHiBiTiOn Is On ItS wAy

Only a few more days until we present our exhibition and it is so exciting i can not wait till our work is done and i am also sad because the fun of making everything and spending time with our great mentor will stop, and we will go off to senior school, but on the bright side our stand is coming out well i can't wait to see our final products, right now our group has gone the furthest in our presentation, well wait and see!

Saskia Macharia

Please read!

Some blogging rules need to be followed :

Remember your audience. You have people who are genuinely interested in the way you are showcasing your learning. Your sentences need to be well constructed and you need to remember to punctuate them! Being good communicators is essential.

Try not to write the way you speak. Organize your ideas before you start typing away.
 I know you can do it :)
Cheers
Monster Mentor 

hi my bloggers

Today we had our metting and we are going to be interviewed tommorow so we are thinking about what they are going to ask.we think that they might say "what is a exhibition?" so we got time to think what is global warming .we thought of everything and ended up having a great explanation on why is global warming happening .

Megan White

mentor meeting by katie

Today we had our mentor meeting and mrs.Mungaro came to our mentor meeting to inform us about an interveiw we are having tomorrow by the people for the standard and people are coming from ktn which are the kenyan newspaper and a kenyan tv news channel and that is how Vivian is answering her line of inquiry that she was given to research about. Her line of inquiry was making man aware of ice caps and so she has answered it by inviting these people to interview us tomorrow.


Katie White

A Glogster by Vivian

Preparation time 12th April, 2011



Students setting up their stand



The students have been working on their title. Lots of fun and laughter. But at times I have to keep pushing them to get back on track! Hmm...

So our title which you, good reader, will see shortly, is giving us heaps of problems. Should we use blue manila, cotton, foam.....

Keep reading! :)

Count down to Exhibition

A few days left before the buzz starts!

This is the time to check our understanding of the central idea and to see whether we are able to confidently talk about the lines of inquiry.
A good website : http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp

We have spoken with Mr Lowe and talked about how we are going to set up our stand and what are they things we will be needing. 
Sounds exciting!

Naini Singh

Letter from a parent

Dear Naini,

How are you doing? I wanted to get in touch with you for quite a while but always something else cropped up and then the day was gone...
Vivian told me so often how much fun she has with the group and that you are 'such a great mentor with many cool sites to do stuff'!!!

I just wanted to check with you if there's anything else the kids need to do to make this exhibition a success? I felt along the way that the time allocated this year was a little short, and I am wondering if the group will be able to present a real special exhibition. This morning I saw the letter one Year 6 group had sent out to collect medicines and that they will use these during the exhibition to show how proper waste disposal should be done.

I know, we cannot 'carry icecaps to Kenya' to make the exhibition a memorable experience, but is there anything else they could do to make the presentation special? Could they perhaps do some iceberg props with Al or create a short play around the topic?

These are just some thoughts and I hope I didn't 'involve myself' beyond the limit that parents are allowed to :-)

Have a wonderful day, Naini, and thanks for mentoring this group so nicely!
Susanne

Susanne Steinebach-Mung’aro
Independent Sales Representative/East Africa

5th April, 2011

Present at meeting:

Saskia, Vivian, Caleb and  two Year 10 MYP students.

Today's meeting was fun! We got hold of two students from senior school who were on their was to Mozambique to participate in a global conference. Our aim was to to find out how they could contribute to our research. The students asked them many questions and exchange skype amd email addresses so that they could keep in touch if the need arose. We hope the students will come back with a lot of information.

Caleb took a few minutes to teach his team members about  Glogging and every member is supposed to Glog about one inquiry line each. This would be a fromative assessment where we will analyse how their understanding of the line of inquiry is reflected through this visual poster.

this is the result of when we as humans interfere with the penguin habitat, due to the melting of the ice caps.

Hey Hey Bloggers

 Today in our meeting we were all in question time it was our turn to take the initiative and see what we can find out from many different people. So in our meeting  our amazing mentor has brought to us yet another opportunity for us to find out more, when two students from our school are traveling to Mozambique and the two girls Amira and Keshni came to us and we were just told to ask questions about our topic the polar ice caps and we asked if they could find out things for us, like how much pollution is Mozambique causing so that we can give data in our presentation. We must Skype with them because because by the time they get back it may be past our exhibition. Our group will inform you on what data we get.

Saskia Macharia

Hi my bloggers.

Tomorrow is another meeting and I have got so many ideas you will not believe it--I will post all that we have done tomorrow.
Exhibition is 2 weeks away and we have given each other tasks to get done quicker.One of mine was to get ideas on how to make man aware of the polar ice caps melting which is one of our lines of inquiry.I am planning on putting an article in our local newspapers I will get that confirmed by tomorrow.For now I got a very touching video really showing people the bad we have done to ice caps and what we can do to change it,What I learned from this video is that it's not only global warming that is melting the ice caps, yes it is the most percentage to why this is happening but ice caps also melt naturally.Please watch the video and tell me your views.
Thanks
Vivian

Someone made this individually but it definitely has got true facts.Watch creafully!

AMAZING

This is the beautiful atmosphere at the polar ice caps.We want to keep it like this so lets stop global warming and they wont melt--which means we can keep them!! YAYYY :)

LETS TAKE CHARGE
Vivian Mung'aro

Interesting picture!!

This is how the polar will look once the ice caps are gone so lets do something to stop it ITS BAD
Saskia Macharia

Image

This image inspired me because of its caption: Which countries Karma is returning when the polar ice caps finally melt. Its saying that a country has contributed to global warming a lot  and with that done they are getting karma back by the polar ice caps melting and it floods into their country---pure KARMA! It gives sort of a warning I really like it and it got to me.
Thanks,
Vivian.

Stop Global Warming!

Meeting with mentor.

Today we had yet another meeting with our amazing mentor Ms.Naini. The meeting was filled with excitement and ideas,I enjoyed it very much.We mainly discussed action plans and clarified the understanding of the central idea, lines of inquiry and the summative assessment.We discussed that we would write up reflections on the process of the lines of inquiry-how we started, what we changed and what our final decisions are.We will be sure to post these reflections once we have done them.We came up with an idea to interview our junior school principal Mr Les Wilkins about Mount Kilimanjaro which he has climbed twice and if he could get us an expert on Ice who we could interview.Our action plan for this week and the beginning of the next are : Getting our lines of inquiry finalized and approved, Each of us group members has to post two blog posts or maybe even more, Filling in our PYP exhibition handbook, Finding dramatic images on mans interaction with Ice Caps and Reflecting on our journey with lines of inquiry and lastly what we always have to do- a reflection in our exhibition journal on todays meeting.

That was our meeting- As I said it was great fun and I cannot wait for next weeks one.
Got to go finish homework now--- Bye

Vivian Mung'aro
6K

29th March, 2011

Students present:
Saskia, Caleb, Vivian

Today's meeting was very interesting. I can clearly see the progress you have made and it is evident that you have reflected upon your lines of inquiry and come up with great lines which are not statement or questions with simplistic answers. Lines of inquiry should be exciting enough to make you want to know more about a topic.

I have attached a link here http://diigo.com/0gba4 where I have highlighted some research skills. There is a lot of information out there on the world wide web! So you would need to
a) keep the central idea in mind
b) skim and scan
in order to retrieve salient information.


I would also like us make sure we stick to the next weeks plan which is:
a) Every one must blog at least twice this week. Remember we are recording the process of our learning. We best learn from mistakes and what better where than to record the development of your lines of inquiry.
b)Caleb to make a Glogster(for more about Glogster check out my website (place cursor on blank spot) nainiatyourdoorstep.weebly.com) about global warming using facts/ statistics/ data
c) Interview Mr Wilkins and find out more about the snow caps on mount Kilimanjaro, Mt Kenya. Find referrals from him of experts who study ice (Caleb calls them Ice men!)
d)Best part: What action are we going to take that could inform people and also that is sustainable:
walk around school observing how people are using electricity in their classrooms. Creating posters fro the junior and senior school advising them how to reduce their carbon footprints.
Write a letter to the principals of junior and senior school requesting them to turn off the AC's for an hour in the library (morning time)

Hug a tree, Man!

A few assignments that will help the kids get started

Read the conversation and summarize

http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/mount-kenya-ice-window-route-global-warming-t48185.html

What is the link between global warming and malaria in Kenya?

Title change

The group members thought "Ice breaker" was a more subtle title than "Cracked" and hence the change!

We're using spicy nodes to tackle the first line of inquiry

introduction of myself Megan

hi I am megan, I go to aga khan academy mombasa. we are working on our exhibition this year. our title is "cracked", I like the title because it is like the ice is melting and the ice is also CRACKING away - it is a really great title.the melting of ice is very serious to ME and thinking of the animals that die or lose their homes. the ice melting is also flooding the earth (the raising of sea levels).

Saskia Macharia

Hi my name is Saskia Macharia and I am 11 years old I was born on 25th May 1999 and I am so excited for exhibition. I have a sister and a brother but they are not on this blog and their names are Jessica and Robin. Exhibition is a big step for me because it clarifies for me to go the senior school. I have many ideas for exhibition and i can not wait for what our judges will tell us about our presentation. I hope that this blog will impact people around the world to stop global warming because it is becoming a real issue. I just want as a year 6 that our group can do something to stop it once and for all because in other exhibitions they talk but nothing ever happens, but i hope that our group can make a change.

Visitor from HongKong

Hi group members,
We have a request from a surprise guest :)


Hello! I love your blog showing your work for the PYP exhibition. You have selected a very important topic that is well suited to the ideas in Sharing the Planet. Do you mind if I share this with my students? I think they could learn a lot about chronicling their own learning journey as we too prepare for our Exhibition.

Hope all is well with you and the other students at AKA,M. Best of luck for your exhibition. When is it taking place?
Mrs. Fenton

I would like you to respond to this mail please.
You may contact Ms Fenton here :

jenniferfenton1@hotmail.com

Intro to myself Caleb Cameron

HI! My name is Caleb Cameron and I am part of the exhibition group 'CRACKED'. I joined this group because of my love for cold weather and polar bears those two things make me very happy and i really want to save both of them but sadly I can't do that by myself because I'm only one boy so i am aiming to make people aware of the ice caps and to make those two things last longer.

Meeting!

Well today the group of CRACKED met at my house to do some work and brainstorm with ideas.It was pretty fun but we also learnt a lot and came up with really good presentation ideas.Also we made two posters, one with our lines of inquiry written on them and one with did you know facts.It was very fun and for the first time I had my whole group over at once which was pretty cool and I find it great that Caleb doesn't mind being the only boy in the group, I find it very mature and like it + he is also a great addition to the group 'Thank you Caleb'.
Here are our lines of inquiry:
Why is Global Warming happening?

What Will happen to the world if Global Warming continues?

How can we make people aware of Global Warming?

Well I have got to go revise for an exam tomorrow so I'll get going now and I hope to blog as soon as we have our next meeting.
Thanks
Vivian

14th March, 2011

Students present
Caleb, Vivian, Kate, Megan, Saskia

Today we discussed suitable inquiry lines that would excite us and stimulate inquiry.
We came up with very good ones we thought. I hope to see the students put this on the blog themselves rather than me doing it here.

They are still getting used to the idea of the blog and need to learn to organize their work.
From today's meeting, the qualities of each student was emerging. The inquirer, the listener, the risk taker, the leader, the creative one....hmmm... we have a motley group indeed!

I have taken a video to record the conversation taking place. It will give us a fairly rough idea of the students involved.

Video 14th March

introduction of myself Katie

Hi my name is Katie White I
am 11 years old and I have a sister and she
is also on the blog her name is Megan
and we live in Mombasa, Kenya specifically in a place called Nyali.I hope you and I both learn alot about the Ice on
Earth and why it is melting.It was such
good news when I found out about the topic
and that it was Ice Caps because i want
to research deeper into the topic. I go to the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa i am
in 6th grade and this is the year i am doing exhibition.I am in aa group with
Vivian Mung'aro,Caleb cameron,Saskia Macharia and Megan white. I am so glad i got this group because i know i can work with them and
we are all friends.It took along time to
get the title but we finaly came up with one.We have discussed the exhibition lines of inquiry and a little bit about the presentation. The exhibition is the whole reason we started this blog and i think it was a realy good idea.

Introducing Myself -- Vivian

My name is Vivian Mung'aro and I am one of the group members of the Ice Caps exhibition group 'Cracked'.I am ten years old and go to the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, it is a great school.I am now in my 6th year at the school, and in the 6th grade at Aga Khan we have the junior school exhibition which this blog is actually all about.Choosing topics and titles for this exhibition was a very long process but in the end we are all now in good groups and we all have different topics. My group and I are doing Ice Caps and out title is Cracked.My group memebers are Katie White, Megan White, Saskia Macharia and Caleb Cameron, I really like the group I have chosen to be in.Why I chose the topic Ice Caps in the first place is because that ceratain enviroment of the cold atttracts me and I am very interested to learn about it, also the animals in the enviroment are lovely and I am very eager to learn about them.We have had our second mentor meeting today and it was interesting as usual.It was really fun and even though we have not done much I have really enjoyed starting the exhibition.I have a great mentor Ms Naini Singh I really like her and she is why we have this blog and I would like to thank her for that and everything else she has done.Well I will have to go and finish my other school homework so I better get going.
Bye and Thanks.

Vivian Mung'aro
Aga Khan Academy Mombasa.
Grade 6- Cracked exhibition group.

Brainstorm

Purpose of this blog

• Keep a record of our learning journey
• Showcase our learning in different ways and at different points of time
• Share with the world what we are upto
• Collaborate
• Have fun ...and most importantly,
• Make a difference!