in honor of valentines day

P1 looked at the work of Jim Dine, an American Pop artist. Dine often uses everyday objects, such as tools, rope, shoes, neckties, and other articles of clothing in his work.  We also noticed he used hearts a lot.

In honor of Valentine’s Day,

here are a few of our Dine-inspired hearts. 

inquiring into jobs people in our community have

Students began looking at the work people do in our community.

Thanks to several parents we were able to visit and see first hand the way organizations often have many people working together.

Our first stop was Arusha Lutheran Medical Center (ALMC) where Dr. Banks met us and then introduced us to the people she works with at the hospital.

Mama Maja came to our class and talked about the work she does as manager of Karama Lodge.
She then invited us to come and visit. So, we did...

Ben's dad came to our class and talked about airports. We not only heard all about the different jobs inside of an airport but we were given different jobs and did a simulation of an airport (videos to come, hopefully).

Dr.Banks, Lee, and Zach thank you for helping us learn more about the way people work together in our coummunities.

p1 visits secondary science lab

On Friday, 05 February we visited the Secondary Science Lab after one of the students in our class said that he wanted to be a Science teacher when he grew up. When asked how we could learn more about the work a science teacher does we decided to go visit a Science teacher.


Ms. Kirpatrick (Gina) answered our many questions about the work she does as a science teacher at ISM and the people she works with. We also talked about predictions and the importance of making observations while doing several experiments!


By the end of our time in the lab nearly everyone said they wanted to be science teachers when they grow up...

'...we could just ask them [what they do]!"

We are looking into the following central idea in P1: “In a workplace people share responsibility towards a common purpose.” We have been talking about our school as a workplace and the many people working at ISM. After a walk around campus we made a long list of people we saw working and the jobs they do. While making our list we realized we didn’t know very much about all the roles and responsibilites people have nor what exactly they do. We thought about how we could learn more and decided to take one student's suggestion of, “… we could just ask them.”

So, we did...

Students came up with a list of questions they wanted to find answers to and discussed sensible ways to ask questions. Students then went in pairs to 8 different people working at our school and for a half hour had the opportunity to ask questions and help teachers, administrators and our ISM cooks with some of their responsibilities.

The photos below share part of the story.