Gingko Group’s Journals of the Week 5.10.15 - 9.10.15

Sharing The Planet

On Tuesday we encouraged the children to begin sharing their prior knowledge about this term’s PYP Unit of

Inquiry: Sharing the Planet during our morning meeting. This unit will inquire into the central idea: We have rights

and responsibilities for sustainable living.

We are learning about sharing the planet.

Tania: Sharing the planet.

Aiden: You need to share something.

What is the planet?

Remy: What we live on.

Will: Earth.

Cooper: Space.

Thomas: It is the world.

Aiden: Earth is the biggest world because we live on

Earth.

Madeline: Earth.

Cleo: There’s different planets.

Leni: Pluto is the farest (furthest) planet.

Ava: The Earth is made out of water and some gravity is

with water and keeps the Earth a bit cold.

Will: We share gravity.

Who do we share the Earth with?

All: Everyone.

Thomas: Mummy and Daddy.

Tim L: Aliens.

Tim G: There are other planets.

Alice: We are sharing our planet with other kids.

Leni: With people at our school.

Tania: We share it with other grown ups.

Will: Different kinds of schools.

Cooper: Parents.

Cleo: We share it with our brothers and sisters.

Gia: We share it with animals too.

Aiden: Pluto is the littlest planet.

Tim G: All kinds of planets.

Tania: We share it with everybody and also with animals we

don’t know.

Chloe: We share it with trees.

Henry: The King and Queen.

If we’re sharing the planet, do we need to make sure we look after

our planet?

All: Yes.

Tania: We protect it by not getting it damaged.

How do we protect the Earth?

Cleo: We don’t leave rubbish around.

Cleo: That’s mean to the world.

Alice: That’s littering.

Will: It makes the world messy.

“I’m sharing with the trees in our world.”

- Cameron

“People plant things in the world like potatoes

and grass and trees in the back garden. It’s

important so we can eat stuff and if we don’t eat

the food we will die.” - Will

Madeline: If you throw the rubbish on the floor it will make lots

of dirt and when people walk they will stand on the

rubbish.

Aiden: If you leave your rubbish around you might go to jail.

Henry: ‘Cause it hits the world and hurts it.

Sebastian: It makes too much work for the garbage men for them

to pick it all up.

Cameron: When you’re finished with rubbish you throw it in the

bin.

Tim L: If somebody walks past they might slip over.

Chloe: If you put it at the beach the sea animals will get

stuck in the rubbish.

Gia: If you throw it in the river the animals might get stuck

and get sick.

Cleo: If animals get stuck in the rubbish they might not

breathe and then they will die.

Remy: Kangaroos eat the rubbish that people throw out the

windows and then they will get sick.

Cooper: It could be very old and if someone picks it up and

they might eat the yucky stuff and then get sick.

Isabella: You need to put your rubbish in the bin.

What about the trees we are sharing the planet with, can I go out and

chop down hundreds of trees for my new house?

Tim G: No!

Will: Not the Gingko tree.

Tania: The birds will die. The birds land on branches and if

there is no trees they will just have to live in a house.

Remy: They will have to live in a new nest.

Alice: And if they haven't any trees they couldn't make a

new nest.

Tim L: There will be no trees and they would have to fly, fly

all day and fly, fly all night.

Why do we need trees?

Madeline: If we chop down all the trees there will be no shade

and people need shade.

Cleo: Animals need shade.

Tim G: When you leave rubbish on the ground you have to

chuck it into the rubbish bin.

Will: We can’t chop down the Gingko tree.

Alice: Because we need to have shelter when it rains.

Chloe: If there is no leaves giraffes won’t have anything to

eat.

Cleo: It is wasting paper. You cut down trees to make paper

and then plant another one.

Will: Trees take away all the yucky smells and then it

turns it into good air.

Cooper: The air smells good. If we don’t have any trees there

won’t be any nests.

Gia: If you cut down lots of trees it’s wasting paper.

Remy: It dissolves the smell of the dust to make it good.

Isabella: You will die if there were no trees.

Madeline: It has oxygen and makes you breath. If you don’t

have any oxygen you will die.

Aiden: Trees get you energy and makes you go fast because

they have energy.

“People like sitting under trees, that’s why you

can’t cut trees down.” - Tim G

“The girl is littering. The cross means no littering.”

- Cleo

“We share the planet with the animals, the

giraffes.” - Chloe

We extended the children’s ideas about

sharing the planet through drama by

creating a story with the children about

littering. The children decided which

characters they wanted to become and

set up the space using fabric to define

different areas. They were able to clearly

improvise their story and worked together

to find a solution for the problem of

littering.

Drama offers children opportunities to

express their feelings, communicate their

ideas and begin to understand new

concepts. It allows children to use their

creativity and imagination as they explore,

discover and understand the world around

them.

VEYLDF Learning Outcomes:

5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with

others for a range of purposes.

- Interact with others to explore ideas and concepts,

clarify and challenge thinking, negotiate and share

new understandings.

What a Wonderful World

ELC Community Project Celebration

Thankyou everyone for coming to share this wonderful celebration of the children’s learning with us. The

prayer flags looked amazing hung in the atrium and it was great to see so many people enjoying ‘The

Sound of Drawing’ experience along with their children.