This document provides information about the Grade 5 Family Letter from 3rd February to 3rd March 2020. The transdisciplinary theme is "Where we are in place and time" with a central idea focusing on how human migration is a response to challenges, risks, and opportunities. Lines of inquiry explore the reasons for migration, migration throughout history, and the effects on communities, cultures, and individuals. Key concepts are causation and change, with related concepts being population, settlement, and diversity. Approaches to learning include social skills, research skills, and reflecting on stories of migration. Formative assessments include poems and letters about migration, while summative assessments may focus on places involved in migration like India, Taiwan, and Dubai.

1. Grade 5 Family Letter
3rd February— 3rd March,2020

2. Transdisciplinary theme—
Where we are in place and time
Central idea
Human migration is a response to
challenges, risks and opportunities.
Lines of inquiry
• The reasons why people migrate
 Migration throughout history
 Effects of migration on communities, cultures and
individuals
Key concepts: Causation, Change, Responsibility
Related concepts: Population, Settlement, Diversity,
Refugees
IB Learner profile: Risk-taker, Knowledgeable, Open-
minded
Approaches to learning :
Social skills and Research skills

3. Formative Assessment

4. Ruskin Bond
Migration
Comparing the migration pattern of Rabia Afolabi, Pandit
Birju Maharaj, Napoleon Bonaparte

5. “One way ticket”
Poem by Langston Hughes
Concept– causation
Children wrote poem on migration
and wrote a letter to Chicago
Defender

6. Independently mapping migration routes of
famous personalities on the world/ India map
ATL-Social skills (Interpersonal relationships)

7. Reading various short stories of
migration and reflecting on it through
4 Cs visible thinking routine
Connection, Challenge, Concept, Change

8. Researching and Reflecting
on migration history
Gurgaon
Ellis Island, USA

9. Summative Assessment

10. India Taiwan
Japan Thailand
Texas Dubai

11. Hindi: Read aloud story
“ Kaisa Puraskar”
Introduction to
‘Varnmala’

12. Use of geometric vocabulary:
Recapitulation of parallel lines, intersecting
lines, angles on Geoboard.

13. Art Class: Children doing the concept of
Moment

14. Western Music
Children having fun in pottery class

15. Reflection on Sariska Camp