Bubbling Questions

Bubbling Questions

Our new unit is Re-discovering Myself. The transdiciplinary theme is Who We Are. It explains us about the people, how we are and how we should be. The central idea is: “Preparing for inevitable growth and change contributes to our well-being.” What we know about the unit is that we will learn about growth and change. Some changes will be inevitable and others will be man-made. We will learn about preparing for the forthcoming changes in ourselves too. Some questions that come to our mind are:

·        If there was no growth or change, how would life be?

·        How will our body systems change and function as we grow?

·        How/ why is the growth inevitable?

These are questions about the unit. We hope that the unit will be informative enough to answer these questions and many more .

Shweta

Experiments

Experiments

Today is the third day of our unit. Our unit is all about our body systems and how they change. We started our new unit on Tuesday 20^th November, 2012 .We began our unit with the introduction of the TD theme, Central Idea, lines of inquiry (LOI), Key Concepts.

On Wednesday we were given scenarios: a lion cub grows into a lion, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, ice melts into water etc. we found a common concept in all of them was “Change”.

Today it was really interesting we conducted few experiments and found about physical and chemical changes, Changes which are reversible or irreversible.

Eesha Mathur

Halloween

Halloween- Origin and celebration at school

Origin

Halloween, also known in Europe as All Hallows Eve, was celebrated by the Celts to celebrate the end of summer and the coming of a new year. It was celebrated on 31^st October. In recent years, we wear scary costumes according to a Celtic belief. The Celts believed that on this day, evil spirits came to take them over. They lit bonfires and wore costumes resembling the spirits. The tradition of ‘trick or treat’ began in Christian churches. It was then called going ‘a-souling’. Poor people begged at houses for ‘soul cakes’ to remember their ancestors. Soul cakes were bread with currants inside.

How we celebrated Halloween at Pathways

At school, on Friday, 2^nd November 2012, we had a Halloween parade. Every child had dressed up as a scary or fantasy character. One by one, each class paraded around the amphitheatre stage, and showed off the lovely costumes they were wearing. It was a really memorable experience and we shall never forget it.

Shreya Mozumdar