Grade 6 PYP Exhibitions

 PYP Exhibition Fun

Although we are only in grade 4, we are already thinking about the Grade 6 PYP exhibition. That's because grade 6 has been sharing their really cool ideas, and having lots of fun experiences with us!

This week we had 2 especially fun ones - a charity run and an informative game!

Charity Run by Grade 6 Sarah

Sarah did a charity run to help raise awareness about fitness, and to help raise money for research about obesity! We could pay 100 yen to participate in the run and donate, or 500 yen to participate, donate, and get hot chocolate! Regardless of what we chose, it was a lot of fun!

Mythology Board Game by Grade 6 Angelique

A very different type of action we got to participate in was learning more about mythology with Angelique and her board game - Mythique! We were super impressed when we learned that Angelique made the game all by herself, writing everything, researching everything, drawing, cutting, gluing and so much more! It was a really fun game, and it tied so well into our last unit. Thanks Angelique!

 How We Express Ourselves

At the end of the last semester, and the beginning of this semester, students explored the concept of art changing throughout history in How We Express Ourselves. 

Here is a brief over view of what we did.

Central Idea: The arts record and reflect changes in society throughout history.

Function: How are reflects what is important to society

Change: Why and how art evolves over time

Form: Tools, materials and perspectives used to create art  

Building a Timeline 

From cavemen to modern artists, we looked at several periods in history, across several different cultures, and tracked the art they made! We built a giant timeline of art on our walls to help us better understand and see how art has changed so much!

 Making Art

Students spent a lot of time making art similar to what we were learning about in UOI. Some of this was done in UOI class, like the paint that we made back in December. And some of it was done  in art class! 

These are examples of traditional masks from pre-history. What's prehistory you wonder? Ask a grade 4 students!

 

 

Discussing and Deciding

Of course a normal part of all UOI units is to discuss with our friends what we are learning about, and write down our ideas in a variety of ways!

 

 Presentations and Summatives

Finally, once the unit is done, we created a presentation that mimicked what we did in class. Each of us choose a culture and 5 examples of art from that culture over history. Then we shared with teachers from the school about how the changing art reflects the changing societies. It was scary to talk to so many adults, but really showed us how much we had learned!