First Grade Fun and International Primary Curriculum

I'm enjoying the International Primary Curriculum that I am teaching at ISG-Jubail School. My first graders entered into the first integrated studies theme of Celebrations! by planning a pirate party, start to finish. They planned food, decorations and activities, including a treasure hunt for chocolate coins and imaginative play on a pirate ship.

The Pirate Ship in the Classroom

It's fun to be in a K-10 school - the older students came out and cheered on the costumed "pirates" as they paraded around the school.

The pirate celebration

Next the students studied different elements of celebrations and one of those was the wearing of masks. The children designed a mask on the computer in their ICT class and then made an actual face mask in Art.

Masks and IPC

We finished out the investigations with a history study of Then and Now, researching items from the past and seeing how they have changed today. The children made timelines showing how they have changed over time, too.The international culmination of the unit will be a Celebration Museum where children and parents will work together to make a display showing a favorite home country celebration and kids will answer questions about their celebration at a school-wide fair (think science fair format).

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