Before the break, life became very hectic at KICS with many events taking place in and out of school. A highlight was our trip to Souk as Sha'abi to find out what the perceived value of 50 SDG is. In less than an hour our students needed to identify goods they would like to purchase and negotiate with stall owners to get the best outcome. Some interesting decisions were made, lessons were learned and the majority were pleased with their level of success.
We have come back to school after the break with full focus on becoming successful producers and marketers as we work towards the Entrepreneur's Market that will take place on April 1st. Many children have been very pro-active in determining how they can gain awareness for their product and ensure their success. Though they are working together to raise funds for "Kids of Kids" they are also working for individual profit as they each need to repay the loan they have signed for. We're hoping that parents are also assisting the children to understand the costs within a business by charging nominal fees for use of extra products, gas, electricity, time etc. This week Ms. Fadwa's daughter spoke to us about how she has developed a business making friendship bands. This helped create awareness of how you need to keep developing your market to sustain sales.
In maths, the focus has been on money; using different currencies around the world to learn how to apply the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to money. This has brought about the introduction of decimals and helped to make further connections between the base 10 number system and the real world.
In reading, 4B has been working with picture books that tell stories yet still relate to concepts within our unit. The discussions and questions taking place show how aware the students have become of specific market terms and their connections. We have also started to look at the differences between novels and plays. Through this we have read some shorter stories and are working on turning them into plays that we will perform to the rest of the class. Our written language focus continues to be poetry. We have written, haikus, free form poems using similes and quatrains. Next week we will learn about and create our own diamonte poems.
As we move into the final two weeks of our unit "The supply and demand of goods leads to trading" we encourage discussions to continue at home to foster deeper understanding of this central idea. A line of inquiry that is particularly relevant to living in Sudan as it impacts all of us and deserves some consideration is, "evidence of supply and demand in our society." There is still room for acquisition of knowledge about the different forms of trading, also.
Thoughts from parents and students are always welcome and sharing these on Edmodo encourages participation and interaction between all.
Look at what has been happening recently on http://youtu.be/d3UFK_VPbMc
We have come back to school after the break with full focus on becoming successful producers and marketers as we work towards the Entrepreneur's Market that will take place on April 1st. Many children have been very pro-active in determining how they can gain awareness for their product and ensure their success. Though they are working together to raise funds for "Kids of Kids" they are also working for individual profit as they each need to repay the loan they have signed for. We're hoping that parents are also assisting the children to understand the costs within a business by charging nominal fees for use of extra products, gas, electricity, time etc. This week Ms. Fadwa's daughter spoke to us about how she has developed a business making friendship bands. This helped create awareness of how you need to keep developing your market to sustain sales.
In maths, the focus has been on money; using different currencies around the world to learn how to apply the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to money. This has brought about the introduction of decimals and helped to make further connections between the base 10 number system and the real world.
In reading, 4B has been working with picture books that tell stories yet still relate to concepts within our unit. The discussions and questions taking place show how aware the students have become of specific market terms and their connections. We have also started to look at the differences between novels and plays. Through this we have read some shorter stories and are working on turning them into plays that we will perform to the rest of the class. Our written language focus continues to be poetry. We have written, haikus, free form poems using similes and quatrains. Next week we will learn about and create our own diamonte poems.
As we move into the final two weeks of our unit "The supply and demand of goods leads to trading" we encourage discussions to continue at home to foster deeper understanding of this central idea. A line of inquiry that is particularly relevant to living in Sudan as it impacts all of us and deserves some consideration is, "evidence of supply and demand in our society." There is still room for acquisition of knowledge about the different forms of trading, also.
Thoughts from parents and students are always welcome and sharing these on Edmodo encourages participation and interaction between all.
Look at what has been happening recently on http://youtu.be/d3UFK_VPbMc
Great pictures of the field trip to the souk. Thank-you!
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