WEEKLY+FEEDBACK


 * From Monday, 26th March, 2012, there will be no need to maintain a Process Log. Instead, we need to maintain our reflections on a weekly basis in the following format.**

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**WEEKLY FEEDBACK** __ **Week 1: 26th March - 30th March, 2012** __


 * ** STRAND ** || ** WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ** || ** MENTOR’S REFLECTIONS ** ||
 * Orientation in place and time || Filling of planner, formal letter for a trip to National Museum, New Delhi. || Students filled their planners, collated and made one planner, wrote a formal letter to Ms. Rima seeking her permission to go on a field trip to Museum, visited library and did research work in I.T. Lab.

Students thought of various names for their groups which are as follows:

Dead Times - Kritee
After much discussion we decided on "Time Travellers" || beginning with collecting data. || Students read aloud each question in the planner, brainstormed and discussed each response. Explanation of significance of research and sources of research into primary and secondary by the mentors. Students think of various names for their group such as
 * Homes and journeys ||  ||   ||
 * Personal histories || Filling of planner, planning of primary and secondary resources, thinking of a name for their group, choosing a form of presentaion ,

Historical DARE devils –Abhay Personal Files – Shrivardhan Famous People _ Shrey Historical Olympians – Abhay Men of History -Esel Lightening Minds- Hrishit. Shrivardhan chooses to make a visual model about Alexander Graham Bell's significant life events, Raina chooses a to make a comic strip, Ishan chooses to make a PPT, Chahat choose to make a poem and together they reached a consensus to present a drama about the personal histories with a song composed by Ishan anda poem composed by Chahat **.Ishan has been able to give undivided attention while finding information to his guiding questions using the internet search engines. Raina was able to combine information collected during Holi Holidays as the required answers to the guiding questions framed by both her and Chahat. Shrivardhan was able to issue books from the library and has started to think what events would he like to represent through the visual model about Alexander Graham Bell. Chahat was able to read a library text about Mother Theresa and find specific information that she looking for. ** ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 1(seema) ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 2 || Collation of lines of inquiry, filling of planner, planning of primary and secondary resources,visit to the library, planning of the field trip.Sonia Juneja || Students filled their planners, visited the library and got books, children planned for the field trip and started writing letter to Ms.Rima seeking her permission to go on a field trip. ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 3 ( Shalini and Abhimanyu) || Each child explored filling in the planner, after the sections were simplified and explained by Abhimanyu. || Students first filled their planners individually and then one final one in their respective groups. One of the group identified the place that they want to go on a field trip ( National Science Museum) and wrote a formal letter to Ms. Rima seeking permission for the same. The groups also went to the library and looked for books to find relevant information from. They started their research on the first line of inquiry. ||
 * Individuals and civilisations || Introduction to the planner, deciding the provocation and the Prior Assessment and the strategies to be used to show themCompletion of the planner

Start of research of LOI 1 to prepare for the 1st formative task. || Ananya and Mitali took books from Grade 3 and identified the areas where they would want to see influences of the past on the present to make research easy. Parinita researched on Life of Buddha from books and noted down the important points for her cartoon. Akanksha is working on choosing the wars to be able to create a newspaper on wars. She has been asked to preferable choose a war from each continent and 1 from India for the global perspective. Simran was absent last week and had to catch up with the planner and the provocation reflection along with the prior knowledge assessment. She has also started inquiring into her first LOI. Parinita, Ananya and Mitali will have to visit the National Museum. Parinita is drafting the letter. The children are collecting the music and recording a recitation of poems for the final performance. Wouter is also on his first LOI after collecting relevant information from the internet, he is synthesizing them. Shreya has been getting help from Isha and has changed her first LOI to match it with the CI and the strand. She is also inquiring into the first LOI. By Friday a lot of research had been done and certain aspects were checked by the mentors. Parinita has started presentation on her first line of inquiry through a comic strip. || __**Week 2: 2nd April - 6th April, 2012**__

Ashwin and Vikram changed their topic of research from animal species to Electricity and Genetics and started their research afresh. Students continued their research in the IT lab and in the classroom and uploaded their work on **Google Docs**. They finally named their group as"Discoverators". Aashna made a questionnaire on migration and issues related with it. She also identified the people whom she will interview to gain more knowledge on migration. She will interview a Bangladeshi immigrant, a students from senior school, her grandfather who emigrated to Ireland and her mother who migrated back to India. Mansha uploaded a few videos on Google Docs while Ashwin and Vikram continued with their research on Electricity and discovery of DNA respectively. Students also decided to have their formative assessment on Monday and made a checklist for the same. ||
 * ** STRAND ** || ** WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ** || ** MENTOR’S REFLECTIONS ** ||
 * Orientation in place and time || Students visited the library and IT lab for research work, Students completed the prior knowledge assessment on the basis of 5Ws and 1H strategy, they made formative assessment and came up with a rubric to judge themselves, will give their formative assessment on Monday. They also reflected on Essential Agreements which they made to themselves. Filled Bibliography and started to write the blog. || * Students visited library and got the relevant books, started reading. Stijn, got more information on History of Rome, read 2 books related to it, saw a movie on you tube on History of Rome, wrote rough draft on 1st LOI. Aryan, finished his research on 1st LOI and started analyzing it, Yashasvi, Khushbu and Vamakshi researched and gathered lots of information and data, Yashasvi is doing research on Food, Costumes and Culture of Delhi, India, Khushbu, working on Indian history from the time of Maurya empire and covering till the Mughals. Tanya, finished her 1st LOI, related to the royal family of U.K., going on 2nd LOI. Kritee and Gaurav working on their Ist LOI related to POP Art and Abstract art, read books and researched.Vamakshi, Stijn, Khushbu, Yashwasvi, Aryan, are planning to go to National Museum on Tuesday, whereas Kritee and Gaurav will go to NGMA on Tuesday. Tanya and Kritee have started to write the blog. ||
 * Homes and journeys ||  ||   ||
 * Personal histories || Students visited the library and IT Lab for research work. They finished researching on the person's history also completing the prior knowledge assessment and a formative assessment. Students reflected on the essential agreements and signed in the MY PROMISE document. They prepared a set of questions which will be used to interview the resource person in school. Bibliography sheets were filled in by the students. || * Students have revisited the T.D.Theme by reading it aloud and brainstorming the meaning of key terms like **influence** and **connection** in the lines of inquiry by giving synonyms and using a dicitionary.
 * Formative assessment task given by mentor by asking students to frame guiding questions about the key concept of connection to understand if students have gauged a true, enduring understanding of the meaning of the concept of connection.
 * Discussion about T.D.Skills with special attention paid to **Analysis** and **Planning**.
 * Raina and Vidhi wrote formal letters to their teachers requesting them to give them a date and time for interviews.
 * Raina, Vidhi and Chahat continued with their research and understood how they could frame **thick questions for inquiry** by re thinking about their prior knowledge.
 * Shrivardhan made efforts to take personal responsibility for gathering materials for his model.
 * Ishan found it difficult to sequence his questions and needed help to read, choose and turn information collected from various websites into bullet points for his PPT.
 * Raina interviewed Ms. Kiran Rai to get information about Mother Teresa.
 * Chaahat has started with her plan for designing a cartoon strip about Mother Teresa. ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 1 ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 3 ( Shalini and Abhimanyu) || Students started their research on the first line of inquiry. || Aashna and Tia browsed the website of International Organisation of Migration, found out the contact details and wrote a mail to them asking for a date to visit the same for gathering information on migration. Rhythm finalised the scientific discoveries that she wants to further inquire into. Mansha, Juyoung, Vikram and Ashwin also started their research. Ashwin also shared some videos that he thought could be used as provocations.
 * Individuals and civilisations || Formative task on the first LOI.

Work on the 2nd LOI started

Framing questionnaires for interviews and letters for permission for guest lectures || **Wouter** has started on his 2nd LOI. Met Kiran Rai of senior school to find out more. He read poems on wars. He has started to put down his findings in his own words.
 * Parinita** decided on the interview sheet for her interviews for her 2nd and 3rd LOI. She has researched on the different aspects of Buddha’s teachings and has also framed the letter for her guest lecture invitation.
 * Akanksha** decided on her interview sheet for her 3rd LOI. She has also spoken with Ms. Kiran Rai and got valuable inputs about the impact of wars on countries. She is reading Anne Frank to have an understanding of how the jews suffered during the World War.
 * Shreya** worked with the different artists and their influence on the society at that time. She has been working on Indian artists too.
 * Simran** has found out about people who have worked to abolish slavery. She has also researched on the history of slavery. She has read a wonderful poem on slavery and will reflect on it over the weekend.
 * Mitali** is has done a bit of work on her first line of inquiry and has planned the display.
 * Ananya** has done a considerable amount of research and will now put down her findings. ||

__**Week 3: 9th April - 13th April, 2012**__

internet. A formative assessment was carried out for the students on the //**second line of inquiry**// where they presented their understanding of the same in the form of a role play and used the //**Mrs. Potter's Questions**// for self evaluation of their presentation. Information for the //**common panel and individual panels**// have been collated. Stationary items were given to the students to proceed with their panel work. || Students watched documentaries on the you tube about Leonardo's life and his inventions. They discussed their presentation layout with the art specialist and planned a rough layout for the same. Pradeep prepared a set of questions that would ask the manager of the Apple Store over the weekend. Abhinav continued to find answers to his quiding questions. || Simran: She has been working with spread of slavery and people and organizations who have helped abolishing slavery. Parinita: After the research on aspects of Buddhist thoughts, she has finalized the questions to gather a perspective about Buddhism from others. She is to interview people over the weekend. She had also been to the National Museum. Wouter: He has been working on effects of war on people and countries collecting information through discussions and the internet. Shreya: Shreya was unwell in the first two days. She has been working on the influence of society on art. She also visited an Art Gallery. Ananya and Mitali: They have been working on the influences of the civilizations on the present. They visited the National Museum to see the Harappan Gallery. ||
 * ** STRAND ** || ** WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ** || ** MENTOR’S REFLECTIONS ** ||
 * Orientation in place and time || Students researched on 2nd and started on 3rd Line of Inquiry. They were enthusiastic as their research work is taking shape. They had guest lectures on History of India and Delhi from Ms. Kiran Rai and visited Art Exhibition and Museums. || Students were enthusiastic about their research work and did lots of research work. Kritee and Gaurav went to the NGMA and Stijn, Yashasvi, Khushbu and Aryan visited National Museum, they presented their made E-Booklet and PPT for their 2nd Formative Assessment. students started to work on their panels. ||
 * Homes and journeys ||  ||   ||
 * Personal histories || Students researched using books and
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 1(Seema) || Students completed their research on the first line of inquiry and displayed their understanding using charts and PPT. They made their presentations and assessed each other using a rubric with the 3 C'S.(content,creativity,communication)They also went for a field trip to the National museum.They started their research on the second line of inquiry and went to see Ms Kiran, Middle school history teacher to get information about the impact of explorations on the world. || Students now geared up for the upcoming exhibition. They gave critical feedback to each other for the presentations and got a good idea of how to put up the visual displays.They realized that specific and relevant information should only be put on display and that the information should be presented in a very attractive manner.Abinab still needed to be coaxed constantly to research more deeply and also present the information more creatively.Except for Minseo, Abinab and Arnav , everyone else in the group made charts to make presentations for their first line of inquiry.The students went for a fairly informative field trip to the National museum..They got information about explorations to Antartica and also the voyages undertaken by Christopher Columbus. They also went to see Ms Kiran to seek answers for some of their queries.They continued to research about the second line of inquiry over the weekend. ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 3 ( Shalini and Abhimanyu) ||  || The entire week was filled up with a lot of excitement as students geared up for their formative assessment on the first line of inquiry. The group members used a variety of media to present their research findings. While Mansha, Rhythm, Tia and Ashwin used charts,Aashna used MS- Power point. Vikram and Juyoung had an oral presentation of their work. Each of them assessed each other using the checklist created by them only. Then they began the research on the second nd and the third rd lines of inquiry. They also roughly planned the layout of their panels and made a list of resources that they will need to display their research findings. Mansha, Tia and Aashna started making their paper mache globe on which they intend to show the migration around the world. Tia and Aashna also interviewed Tuli Didi, a support staff in Pathways to know more about economic migration. Vikram visited the senior school and got valuable information on the discovery of DNA by interacting with Ms. Mesha Das, the Biology teacher. It was indeed a very interesting and challenging week. ||
 * Individuals and civilisations || The children have been working on their 2nd and 3rd Line of Inquiry. They have also been working on her formative presentation. They have finalized aspects of their performance and has also thought about a mural to display their understanding of the strand. A CSI ( colour, symbol, illustration) was done on their big ideas so that the symbols for the murals could be decided || Akanksha: She has been working on effects of war on people and countries collecting information through interviews, case studies and the internet. She had started working on the action component of her unit.

__**Week 4: 16th April - 20th April, 2012**__

Tejaswinin, Shreya and Shibani were first confused about putting up their display. They have researched about space explorations. They had to redo and reorganize some of their work and were much more proactive this week. I was quite pleased to see the efforts put in by Abinab..he worked sincerely on his panel with some guidance. ||
 * ** STRAND ** || ** WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ** || ** MENTOR’S REFLECTIONS ** ||
 * Orientation in place and time ||  ||   ||
 * Homes and journeys ||  ||   ||
 * Personal histories || Students have entered the final phase of decorating their panels, taking print outs for their pictures and written information. Reeshu has joined in as the new SEN Primary Teacher and is being a mentor to Wins, a new student who is learning the skills for collecting information and presenting it. Students have also taken inputs from the Art Teacher Miss Isha Joshi to decorate their panel. Shrivardhan and Ishan have written the weekly blog together. || * Shrivardhan has been extremely enthusiastic about finishing his model and taking full responsibility for setting up the model.
 * Raina and Chahat have worked extremely hard to take print outs and approached Ms. Pooja Sachdeva the I.T. teacher several times for learning how to enlarge the font size of a document which is saved on a website by taking a print out and then retyping it on a Microsoft WORD Document in an enlarged font.
 * They have learnt how to look for spelling mistakes and proof read their soft copies before taking a final print out.
 * Vidhi has learnt the strategy behind making an attractive panel by using large sized font, taking a print out and cutting it with a one inch edging outside on A 3 sheet.
 * Ishan has expressed a desire for making a visual display and has used effective self management skills to obtain an attractive red and green color chart paper and has stuck it on his panel independently.
 * Wins is not able to show independence in his I.T. skills. He is struggling to select, copy and paste an image about CR 7.
 * As a teacher I have learnt to manage my students independently for the first time. ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 1 || Students displayed their thinking skills as they worked tirelessly to organize their research work on the panel in the best possible manner.They put up the panels in their assigned space and decided as a team to plan their presentation. The students also got an opportunity to get information about some famous explorations (like the titanic,marina trench)from MS . MANJARI, a guest speaker from National Geographic channel. || Adit and Minseo manged to complete about 80% of their panel . They have researched about Christopher Columbus.
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 3 ||  || ** During this week, students finished almost all their research work and then went on to do their formative assessments by presenting their research findings of the last two lines of inquiries by using different media like power points and charts. They also used Mrs. Potter's questions to self assess their work. After finishing their formative assessment, they planned the layout of their panels and figured out how they would put the information on it. Then they collected all the resources they needed for the panels. They finally started putting their work on the panels and decorated it by putting borders, making interesting ways of making the heading etc. They are now at the edge of finishing our panels, making the models, putting up the photo exhibits on the board, scripts etc. ** ||
 * Individuals and civilisations || The children started their final summative presentations and the displays. They completed their panels, boards, easels and all the last minute tasks. They also worked on the script and their performance with Norbu. They also got a rough idea as to how they could present their work orally. || **Akanksha:** Akanksha presented her understanding of the Central Idea through a series of paintings on the various wars and its impact and she named them beautifully. She has displayed a clear understanding of the Central Idea. She also presented the idea of the ‘ Butterfly Project’ to the rest of the Primary.
 * Simran:** Simran presented her understanding of the Central Idea through a movie maker where she has appealed to the others to stop child labour and human trafficking beautifully put together through a song ‘ beautiful slave’ and a lot of newspaper reports. She has displayed a clear understanding of the Central Idea.
 * Parinita:** Parinita has displayed her understanding of the Central Idea through a movie maker where she has shown how Buddhism as a religion has affected other religions and people over the world. She has displayed a clear understanding of the Central Idea.
 * Shreya:** Shreya has presented her understanding of the Central Idea through an art piece called ‘ the clock stops at 11’. She has portrayed her life till 11 through this art piece and emphasized that her life has changed at eleven but she looks forward to her future. She has displayed a clear understanding of the Central Idea.
 * Ananya:** Ananya has displayed her understanding of the Central Idea through a Power Point Presentation where she has shown the impact of the past on the present and the future. She has shown an understanding of the Central Idea.
 * Wouter:** Wouter has been working very hard to put up his final pieces of work and assimilating all the work that he has done to give it a final shape.
 * Mitali:** Mitali is still working on her displays and putting up the panel. ||

__**Week 5: 23rd April - 27th April, 2012**__ ** STRAND **
 * ** WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS ** || ** MENTOR’S REFLECTIONS ** ||
 * Orientation in place and time ||  ||   ||
 * Homes and journeys ||  ||   ||
 * Personal histories ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 1 ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 2 ||  ||   ||
 * Discoveries, migrations and explorations 3 ||  ||   ||
 * Individuals and civilisations || The children set up their exhibition and made their final presentations to the school community, other schools, teachers and parents and through Skype. They were a little disheartened as the graffiti wall could not be set up due to space crunch. Also they rehearsed for their performance and presented it. ||  ||


 * ** 2/23/2012 ** || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || 101 questions about blood and circulation--with answers straight from the heart   (Copy:  [|LIB017048]  )  || NFM 612.1 BRY ||   || 2/9/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * ** 2/23/2012 ** || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Reproductive system   (Copy:  [|LIB003394]  )  || NFM 612.6 PAR ||   || 2/9/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * ** 2/23/2012 ** || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || The respiratory system   (Copy:  [|LIB012755]  )  || NFJ 612.2 FRO ||   || 2/9/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Adolescence   (Copy:  [|LIB011552]  )  || NFM 612.66 BRY ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Digestive system : injury, illness and health   (Copy:  [|LIB003392]  )  || NFM 612.3 BAL ||   || 2/9/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Growing up   (Copy:  [|LIB005944]  )  || TEA 613.9 MER ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Heart and blood : injury, illness and health   (Copy:  [|LIB003390]  )  || NFM 612.1 BAL ||   || 2/9/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || It's perfectly normal : a book about changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health   (Copy:  [|LIB013196]  )  || TEA 613.907 HAR ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Migration   (Copy:  [|LIB001491]  )  || NFS 304.8 GUI ||   || 3/28/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || The period book : everything you don't want to ask (but need to know)   (Copy:  [|LIB014029]  )  || TEA 612.662 GRA ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Puberty and your body   (Copy:  [|LIB015830]  )  || NFJ 612.661 COO ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 4/11/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Sex education   (Copy:  [|LIB001277]  )  || TEA 613.907 ALL ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 5/23/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Let's talk about sex : growing up, changing bodies, sex and sexual health   (Copy:  [|LIB020116]  )  || TEA 649.65 HAR ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||
 * 5/23/2012 || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/priyaj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif width="20" height="16"]] || Let's talk about sex : growing up, changing bodies, sex and sexual health   (Copy:  [|LIB020116]  )  || TEA 649.65 HAR ||   || 2/2/2012 ||   ||   ||