Milky Way class has been continuing enquiries in their transdisciplinary theme where we are in place & time, with the central idea being that the culture of a country changes over time. The first week’s line of enquiry was: a country is made of land & people. Since this, the class has investigated that culture is important for making a country and have started looking into the idea that culture is formed by history.
The students have researched various culture from various countries around the world and from various time periods.
They have also made posters as a type of formative assessment stating a country they would like to visit & for what cultural reasons.
Herein also, students have been listening to the various languages of other countries (primarily counting to ten), looking at the different writing character styles and have written their own names in kanji during a class in shuuji.
In English, the class has been expanding their vocabulary by regularly writing new entries in their day pads and have been working on word recognition progressing with sight words and adding quite extensively to their list of theme-related words covering all subjects.
In mathematics the class has been counting from zero in fives and tens, reciting and learning to understand the 1´, 5´ and 10´ tables as well as having been introduced to clocks and time. Most students can now tell all times past the hour including half, a quarter and the hour itself. They have also been introduced to a quarter to the hour and will in the imminent future learn times to the hour.
