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Exploring the Right to Play at the EC

This afternoon 4R became sociologists in our attempt to understand why the “Right to Play” is part of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We visited IST’s Early Childhood Center through an invitation from Mr Dan’s class.

First we just observed. For around 15 minutes, students took notes on:

  1. Some kinds of play they observed.
  2. Some of the skills and attitudes they observed.
  3. Similarities and differences from grade four play.
  4. What seemed important, interesting or insightful.

 

Next we had a chance to join the EC kids in their play. We built with boxes and clay, played with reflection and refraction, read stories, wrote with magnetic letters and some of us went to the doctor’s for a check-up… Kadi even got an injection!

Afterwards we sat down to share some of our observations and experiences. Dan joined us and spoke about the philosophy of the EC, how they develop provocations to encourage students to experiment and try new things and look for the learning opportunities in everything they do.

Have a look at images in the gallery below!

Banned Books at IST secondary

Banned books for post

Me and Maya were going home together and my sister started talking about some kind of banned books week! Then she said that in another country they  had banned Winnie the poo because it was somehow connected to the nazi’s. Also they banned James and The Giant Peach because the grasshopper and the ladybug are violent . It was very weird cause we think that those are very silly reasons to banned a book.They were banning the books because it was a tradition to have a banned books week per year.

by maya and annalisa

can’t wait till BAGOMOYO!!!!!!!!!!!

4R can’t wait until we arrive in bagamoyo 9:30AM on thursday. we can’t wait mr Jamie said we’er gonna have fun and also guess what ? WE’ER HAVING A HALLOWEEN PARTY !!!. YEA!!!!!! but we are going to have an educational time but who cares we are going to have fun!!!!!!! but the bad part is that we’er going to have to go to bed at 8:30 but we can watch tv if there is a tv althou we’er gonna have fun time!!!!!!  WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

BY Thomas and Aliraza

 

Share a “Rights Story” Using Storybird

Storybird is a great tool for using other people’s artwork to inspire your own stories. This week, 4R students have a chance to try it out.

Think about what we’ve been learning about the rights of children. You could write a story about a right you’re interested in, and maybe some reasons why the right isn’t always met, or about a few different rights, that you feel belong together in a story.

To begin, go to Storybird, log on to our 4R account click CREATE and choose artwork that connects to your story idea. Then start writing and creating pages! Don’t forget to add your first name (only!) to your story.

Here’s an example of a story I wrote, click on it to read!

 

And here’s a video you could watch if you’re having trouble figuring out how to use Storybird.

IST Inter-house competition

On Friday 27th of September Grade 4 had Inter-house competitions. We had P.E every Wednesday and Thursday to practice running fast,Throwing the tennis ball far,landing far on the long jump pitch,jumping high over the rope and lots more.Inter-House is a competition where you have 4 teams. They are Mamba,Nyati,kifaru and Tembo. On the day of Inter-house everyone was so happy and could not wait for the events.

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Pictures from: visitusinmaputo.com (Andreas made the website with his dad)
-by Aryan

Weather Update!

Today it was raining very much at the school, it was lighting to! A few people was going on the toilet when they came back they was really wet! We was not allowed to go out and play so after lunch time everybody was going to the covered court and very many got pushed.

– by Andreas

Bird watching king fisher with 4R!!!

The bell rang. 4R went running out the door. They saw a bunch of people standing under the tree. When we looked carefully at the tree you could see a kingfisher watching above our heads. So we joined the crowd and watched the kingfisher in amazement. Cai went running in and took the camera to take this photo. There were also some crows. They wanted to eat the kingfisher.

king fisher