What is in your view? Our presentation is travelling the world!

Our presentation is travelling around the world...

Here is the view from Bhola Government High School in Bangladesh... (Description to come)

It has also been added to by a school in Chicago

 Chicago, Illinois, USA 

 1. What school do you go to?
 University of Chicago Lab Schools

2. What is something special about your school? 
Our school was founded in 1896 by John Dewey, the father of progressive education. Our school includes Nursery-12th grades and is affiliated with the University of Chicago. We are a large school with 6 classes at each grade Nursery-5th.

3. What is something you have enjoyed learning? 
This year, we loved learning about endangered whooping cranes. We also went apple picking in the fall.

4. What do you most like about living where you live?
We love the snow and all four seasons, but we are really ready for spring. We love being close to the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan and we have so many wonderful things to do here.

5. Is there anything else you'd like to share about yourselves, your culture or your community? 
Our school is very diverse, representing many different countries, traditions, languages, and religions. We have lots of fun celebrating and learning about these differences.

6. Is there anything you would like to share about your learning, your class or your school? 
 We have a rooftop playground.

A very snowy day on the rooftop playground. A science museum is across the park from us.

What is in your view?

We have created a presentation that we have passed on to other schools. We want to find out what is in their backyard and what is in their view. Today we had a new response from a school in Michigan, USA. 

Rockford, Michigan, USA

Snowy playground in subzero temperatures.

1. What school do you go to?
Rockford Christian School

2. What is something special about your school? Our school is an environmental school, which means we sometimes learn at a camp nearby.

3. What is something you have enjoyed learning? We loved learning about apples since there is an apple orchard close to our school.

4. What do you most like about living where you live? We love that we live in a state that is shaped like a mitten and is surrounded by lakes.

5. Is there anything else you'd like to share about yourselves, your culture or your community? This Christmas, we had a Jingle Bell Post Office where we helped kids and teachers send secret messages to each other.

6. Is there anything you would like to share about your learning, your class or your school? We have a pumpkin patch in the front lawn of our school.

What is in our Backyard?

Our new inquiry is called, "What is in our backyard?"

Today we made a movie about our school.

Our View from Matariki on Vimeo.

We are interested to find out about what is in other school's backyards so we have started a presentation that will be passed on to other schools. This is what we have so far...