Online Learning

VAN GOGH FEVER IN GRADE 4

Grade 4 students have been working hard during the last two weeks of school, continuing their classwork online and becoming independent learners who take responsibility for their work. During Art lessons, the children have been discovering Vincent Van Gogh and his masterpieces. Inspired by the artist, they created their own pieces by choosing their own style and materials to recreate some of his most famous pieces of art. The students have caught the Van Gogh spirit, as demonstrated in their effectively drawn pieces of work.

Ms Grace

Grade 4 Teache

Grade 1’s Spring Poster

As a joint effort and cross subject project, the Grade 1 children have unified Italian, IT and Art to collaboratively design a poster that represents Spring for them. Their task was to capture an image that had signs of Spring. Then they dropped their pictures in a shared file on google drive and/or emailed them. Subsequently we have met on zoom and with the aid of google drawings the children uploaded their chosen pictures and decorated them with a “hand drawn” borders. This is the wonderful outcome!

Mr JP  – ICT teacher

Maestra Sara – Italian Teacher

Eat like a Rainbow!

After learning about the importance of ‘Eating like a rainbow’, the Nursery 4 children were challenged to find one piece of fruit for each colour of the rainbow, and use it creatively in cooking. Who would have thought that the fruit could be turned into a lion, a man, a sword or even a rocket?

The Learning (and the fun) Goes On!

Like everyone at school, in the last couple of weeks our young Nursery 3 students (and their families) have swiftly switched to online learning as a way to stay connected with their teachers and peers, and also to carry on with some of the learning that we started in class. 

We have been using Tapestry to stay in touch through everyday messaging and media sharing. Zoom is also allowing us to touch base directly with the children so we can spend some time together, even if much shorter than we would normally do at school. We have a weekly whole-group session which allows us to see everyone in one place at the same time; though briefly, we say hello to teachers and friends and have a look at the classroom and we are reassured that everything is okay and our school life continues.

This year we also have daily live ‘meetings’ with small groups of different children: I look forward to my daily Small Group meetings, where I can finally hear my students giggle, ask them how they are feeling, and chat about what they have been doing while staying home. 

I’m sure that once we return to school, we will talk about the days in which we all were saying ‘hello’ through our computers. For the time being, the goal is to provide our young ones with the best possible online learning, which is age and developmentally appropriate so they can remember this experience with a smile on their faces and – why not, learn a few new things!

Ms Adriana

Nursery 3 Teacher