WEEK Core activities PROFILE CONCEPTS THINKING TOOLS * Notes

Communicator Form
Open-minded Function
Inquirer Responsibility
Activities to address them Activities to address them
1 School tour *Form: Brainstorming: Progress chart:
(getting familiar with school environment) Triangles Are Not Bad (story) mapping the physical school put names
*community building is essential at the space of the school (map)
beginning of the school year
especially with a new class

2 Student feedback  Crumpled Heart Class rules Venn diagram Booklet:

(student responses related to school so far) (activity to enhance (essential agreements (school vs. kindergarten) classroom vocabulary
open-mindedness/caring attitude)
-responsibility)

3 Questions: I Wonder Wheel Open-mindedness line Tree thinking map

School: objects, jobs, places
Word of the Week
OPEN-MINDED

4 Interview 4th graders The Perfect Pumpkin! Function: interviews 6 thinking hats: Word of the Week
(embracing diversity, open- Focus: school RESPONSIBILITY
mindedness)

5 Timetable: comparing & inventing Respect – Y map Word of the Week

(group work) (feels/looks/sounds like)… RESPECT
RESPECTometer
Certificate of Respect

6 Pyramid jobs *pyramid jobs: Staircase: Word of the Week

function goal setting COMMUNICATOR

Class jobs
(responsibility)

• I have 3 hours per week to focus on UoI; the 4th is PYP Weekly Reflection - that is why not all columns are filled (see below)
 Hour MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
8.15- 9.00 1
9.05- 9.50 2
9.55- 10.40 3 Spelling
10.40- 10.45
Snack
10.45- 11.30 4 Spelling Spelling Readers Club Spelling Spelling
11.35- 12.20 5 Readers Club Reading workshop Extension PYP Reflection
12.20- 13.10
Lunch &
Recess
13.10- 13.50 6 UoI UoI UoI Library Studies
13.50- 14.30 7 Crafts I.T.

Related literature: The Kissing Hand, Bear at School, Alphabet Rescue, Little Raccoon’s Big Question, If You Take a Mouse to School etc.

Trip: to the oldest Romanian school in Brasov