How we organize ourselves

Queridos alunos,

para entendermos melhor como nos organizamos, durante essa unidade transdisciplinar, estamos estudando sobre estruturas . Assim como o nosso corpo é uma incrível estrutura, estamos pesquisando também sobre outros tipos de estruturas presentes em nosso planeta.

Ontem, em sala, cada grupo teve o desafio de planejar uma grande cidade, considerando as estruturas e infraestruturas presentes na mesma, para ela funcionar da melhor forma possível.

Como daremos continuidade ao trabalho na terça-feira, é importante que nesse final de semana, cada um pesquise e leia sobre cidades planejadas no Brasil e no mundo. Façam anotações sobre as alternativas de planejamento que geram uma melhor qualidade de vida para a população, pois assim vocês poderão acrescentar ao seu trabalho, tornando-o mais rico e interessante.

Beijos,

Ms. Jana e Ms Taty

Podcast - Episode 3 - Space Exploration

Famous World Structures

Hi everyone,

How about travelling around the world without leaving home?
The world is filled with many interesting places to visit.
Some of these places are WONDERFUL STRUCTURES.

So... here we go....

1- Start by watching the video (7 wonders of the World)
2- Choose a famous world structure to research. (Collect information, pictures and interesting facts about this structure.)
3- Create a display in your drawing notebook about your famous structure (include pictures, facts, historical information...)

Lembrem-se também de postar seus comentários, aqui no blog, após a pesquisa da estrutura escolhida. Sua pesquisa deverá ser bilíngue, devendo conter fatos e explicações em Português e Inglês.

É importante que durante a pesquisa procurem ler com atenção, buscando pontuar fatos históricos que fazem desta estrutura (construção) algo importante para a humanidade. 

Faremos o compartilhamento destas pesquisas em sala ao longo das próximas semanas. 

Estudem bastante! Façam o seu melhor!

Hugs,

Ms Janaína / Ms Taty

Green Infrastructure?

Hi Guys,

After our big question session last Thursday, we wondered if you could give us some ideas on developing better city plannings and improving cities infrastructure.

We think a good way to start is thinking about the impact that city development is causing to all natural life around. 

As we concluded, during class, people have been destroying Nature to build new cities. These cities are growing faster and faster as more and more people need a shelter (a home), making city planning more and more challenging to engineers, architects, politicians...

So... we thought...why not building green cities? 

But... What is a green city? What do we have to do to make our cities greener? What will be the impact on city planning and infrastructure if we do transform our cities in greener places?

We found two videos that gives us an idea of how to connect green life to city planning. We also found two great sites that spread the idea of building green.

Watch the videos. Explore the sites. Talk to your parents, people in your community and discuss the topic so that you have a better idea of this difficult problem every city in the world is facing! 

After researching, write a comment here telling us your opinion on the matter.

Do you know any green cities? Will we ever see them in Brazil?

Site links:

Water Management 

Green Buildings

Green Hugs,

Ms Taty and Ms Janaína

Podcast - Episode 2 - Air vs Space

October 26th, 2015.

Today's homework agenda:

1- PYP notebook + Portuguese activity (body structure)

2- Drawing Notebook + Video on the blog (Research about intersting homes in the world)

(Instructions #2: Watch the video on the blog - Homes / Cut and glue a picture of an interesting home around the world / Write interesting facts about the house you chose / Answer these questions when you write: What is this house made of? / Where in the world is this house? / Who lives in it? / Why is this house like this? / Is it strong?)

See you all tomorrow!
Hugs,
Ms Taty and Ms Janaína

Homes, homes...

Hey Kiddos,

Everyone needs a shelter, a place to live and share with the family,right?

We call these places HOME.

Check out this video to learn some more about how people in the world live and how HOMES can look really different according to the place we live.

Hugs,

Ms Taty