As IB celebrates 50 years of its functioning, our PYP students at DRS International School decided to join in on the celebrations by making a difference to the world in their own small way and agreed to observe a ‘Paperless Week’ from the 16th to the 20th of April, 2018. The week-long celebrations created opportunities for students at every grade level to take action by conserving paper and minimizing and eliminating their use of it in their learning experiences and activities at school.
Our children of the IK had an exciting Paperless Week in which they thoroughly enjoyed engaging activities that incorporated cooperative play, using markers and board, blocks, dough and sand in the IB way! The learners developed their pre-writing concepts through games such as treasure hunt, classroom props, hopping on the number-line and games like ‘spin the bottle’. Students also learnt recognition of consonants, vowels in different languages and ‘after’ numbers through activities like treasure hunts, hop-scotch, train and dice activities! The paperless week helped them to understand the importance of environmental friendly practices in their own way.
Our Grade 1 students, too, made the most out of paperless week with a range of hands on activities including learning with popsicle sticks,magnetic number activities for concepts in math, vowel cars to explore blends and digraphs, puppets to explore about families and friends, as well as a role-play to enact a story in Hindi.
Our little explorers of Grade II investigated nouns around the campus and enhanced their communication skills as part of the paperless week celebrations. They learnt Math concepts using their interactive smartboards. As a part of their Inquiry, they explored their favorite food through presentations and also made a visit to the school cafeteria and cold storage where they interacted with the chef and his assistants to learn more about food.
The eco-warriors of Grade III celebrated this special week through different learning engagements including one in which they categorized ‘Countries & Continents’ through ‘Pass the Ball’ as well interactive maps displayed on the smart board!
Our children of the IK had an exciting Paperless Week in which they thoroughly enjoyed engaging activities that incorporated cooperative play, using markers and board, blocks, dough and sand in the IB way! The learners developed their pre-writing concepts through games such as treasure hunt, classroom props, hopping on the number-line and games like ‘spin the bottle’. Students also learnt recognition of consonants, vowels in different languages and ‘after’ numbers through activities like treasure hunts, hop-scotch, train and dice activities! The paperless week helped them to understand the importance of environmental friendly practices in their own way.
Our Grade 1 students, too, made the most out of paperless week with a range of hands on activities including learning with popsicle sticks,magnetic number activities for concepts in math, vowel cars to explore blends and digraphs, puppets to explore about families and friends, as well as a role-play to enact a story in Hindi.
Our little explorers of Grade II investigated nouns around the campus and enhanced their communication skills as part of the paperless week celebrations. They learnt Math concepts using their interactive smartboards. As a part of their Inquiry, they explored their favorite food through presentations and also made a visit to the school cafeteria and cold storage where they interacted with the chef and his assistants to learn more about food.
The eco-warriors of Grade III celebrated this special week through different learning engagements including one in which they categorized ‘Countries & Continents’ through ‘Pass the Ball’ as well interactive maps displayed on the smart board!
Meanwhile, our students of Grade IV explored a lot of new ideas and concepts with Paperless Week Activities! They explored about the different types of diseases through videos and also saw videos on health and hygiene to learn to protect themselves from diseases. They also enjoyed a unique nature walk to explore the microbes that cause diseases in plants using a magnifying glass.
Students of Grade V marked the week in style, beginning with an exciting activity on learning styles. Students were asked to close their eyes and visualize the scenario of smoke in the movie theater while watching an interesting movie. After understanding the scenario, students were asked to express their reactions as ‘Look’, ‘Run’ or ‘Yell’. This activity helped students reflect on their preferred learning style.
The Paperless Week was a great success in many ways, with the PYP Wing single-handedly eliminating the use of nearly 4000 sheets of paper over the course of the week!
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