Newsletter December 3rd - 7th

Hello,

The term is almost over. We have only two weeks left until the end of the term and will do our best to make the best of it.

UoI: We started our next unit. Transdisciplinary unit "How We Organize Ourselves". This unit is about an inquiry into the

• interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities;
• the structure and function of organizations;
• societal decision making;
• economic activities and their impact on humankind and the environment.

We will be focusing on

1. structure and function of organizations
2. societal decision making.

Our central idea is "Humans have developed governments to establish order"

Concepts: Causation, Form, Responsibility


Lines of inquiry are given below.

• Why we have laws/governments
• Different type of  governments.
• Expectations from  governments

Transdisciplinary skills

• Social
• Adopting a variety of group roles
• Self - management
• Codes of behavior
• Informed choices
• Thinking 
• Metacognition

Math:
On Monday, we had a restest. For rhe rest of the week, we continued to learn more about angles, types of angles and how to draw them.

Important Dates:
1) December 20th - Last day of 2nd term.
2) December 20th - Talent show
3) December 13th - Last day for talent show sign up.