International Baccalaureate/ IB
1st Grade PYP Internationally-Minded Achievement Award
All requirements must be completed by May 2017.
Required: Meaningful Student Action
The ACTION CYCLE is an important component of PYP, as it is believed that education must extend beyond the academic to include not only socially responsible attitudes but also thoughtful and appropriate action. At Hawthorn Academy, we encourage students to act on what they are learning through the action cycle: REFLECT, CHOOSE, and ACT. By reflecting on learning, students then can make a choice and take action.
Student initiated action demonstrates deeper learning through service to peers, our school, our community or our planet. This action will extend the student's learning, and may have a wider social impact. Action can be taken by an individual student or group of students working collaboratively.
Task: As an individual, or as a group, show student initiated action through planning and carrying out a service project. You will need to write a reflection and prepare a poster presentation to share with your class. You, your teacher, and your parent will sign off when you have completed this task. Your poster will be on display at the school.
This is my own, original student initiated service project.
(student signature)
My child planned and carried out this student initiated service project.
(parent signature)
My student gave a thoughtful reflection and presentation to our class, and completed a organized, neat poster.
(teacher signature)
Required: Complete 11 of the 15 possible goals. When completing a goal at home parents must send a note from home. Parent’s Initials Teacher’s Initials
1-Principled: Have no more than 3 tardies for the school year
2-Knowledgeable: Earn a 100% score on at least 15 spelling tests
3-Communicator: Write and illustrate 2 original stories and present 1 to the class
4-Principled: Be respectful and kind to others in the classroom and during recess
5-Reflective: Choose one of the IB profiles and write 50 or more words about it
6-Communicator: Bring a favorite story to read to the class
7-Knowledgeable: Know parents’ or guardians’ names, phone number, and address
8-Thinker: Master all 70 phonograms oral and written
9-Open-Minded: Do a project to go along with any unit completed in class (poster, diorama model, special report, collage)
10-Risk-Taker: Participate in the Inspiration Program and share the project with the class
11-Balanced: Twice a month participate in a physical activity with your family
12-Thinker: Read grade level text at 70 WPM with 95-100% accuracy
13-Knowledgeable: Identify a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter and be able to count change
14-Inquirer: Complete homework and return on time for 90% of the time for entire year
15-Thinker: Read with automaticity approximately 100 high frequency sight words
All requirements must be completed by May 2017.
Required: Meaningful Student Action
The ACTION CYCLE is an important component of PYP, as it is believed that education must extend beyond the academic to include not only socially responsible attitudes but also thoughtful and appropriate action. At Hawthorn Academy, we encourage students to act on what they are learning through the action cycle: REFLECT, CHOOSE, and ACT. By reflecting on learning, students then can make a choice and take action.
Student initiated action demonstrates deeper learning through service to peers, our school, our community or our planet. This action will extend the student's learning, and may have a wider social impact. Action can be taken by an individual student or group of students working collaboratively.
Task: As an individual, or as a group, show student initiated action through planning and carrying out a service project. You will need to write a reflection and prepare a poster presentation to share with your class. You, your teacher, and your parent will sign off when you have completed this task. Your poster will be on display at the school.
This is my own, original student initiated service project.
(student signature)
My child planned and carried out this student initiated service project.
(parent signature)
My student gave a thoughtful reflection and presentation to our class, and completed a organized, neat poster.
(teacher signature)
Required: Complete 11 of the 15 possible goals. When completing a goal at home parents must send a note from home. Parent’s Initials Teacher’s Initials
1-Principled: Have no more than 3 tardies for the school year
2-Knowledgeable: Earn a 100% score on at least 15 spelling tests
3-Communicator: Write and illustrate 2 original stories and present 1 to the class
4-Principled: Be respectful and kind to others in the classroom and during recess
5-Reflective: Choose one of the IB profiles and write 50 or more words about it
6-Communicator: Bring a favorite story to read to the class
7-Knowledgeable: Know parents’ or guardians’ names, phone number, and address
8-Thinker: Master all 70 phonograms oral and written
9-Open-Minded: Do a project to go along with any unit completed in class (poster, diorama model, special report, collage)
10-Risk-Taker: Participate in the Inspiration Program and share the project with the class
11-Balanced: Twice a month participate in a physical activity with your family
12-Thinker: Read grade level text at 70 WPM with 95-100% accuracy
13-Knowledgeable: Identify a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter and be able to count change
14-Inquirer: Complete homework and return on time for 90% of the time for entire year
15-Thinker: Read with automaticity approximately 100 high frequency sight words
A quick view of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program:
The IB program is designed to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet help to create a better and more peaceful world.
IB learners strive to become all the traits found in the learner profile. They are inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk takers, balanced, and reflective.
The 5 essential elements of the program are: knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes, and action.
Knowledge: Our year is broken into six 6 week units. The units explore who we are, where we are in place and time,who we are, how we express ourselves, how we organize ourselves, how the world works, and sharing the planet.
Concepts: These are the questions we ask within our units to take our learning to a deeper level. Instead of simply saying, “the apple is red”, we explore why it is red, and how we know it is red, etc… The questions we ask are:
What is it like?
How does it work?
Why is it like that?
How is it changing?
How is it connected to other things?
What are the other points of view?
What is our responsibility?
How do we know?
Skills: We will work to develop skills necessary to function in a global society. They are classified as communication skills, thinking skills, self-management skills, social skills, and research skills.
Attitudes: We will be working on developing an internationally minded attitude in our approach to learning. Thus, as we learn, we will show: curiosity, independence, creativity, integrity, appreciation, empathy, respect, enthusiasm, confidence, cooperation, commitment, and tolerance. By developing these skills we will become internationally minded. (Which means we have become the traits listed in the learner profile)
Action: The last element of IB is a call to action. An action can big or small, as long as it takes learning to a deeper level. (Example, researching Africa and sending humanitarian supplies or learning about water and getting a new book about it from the library. The point is for learning to become personal and meaningful to the children. Thus as they learn they will be reflecting on what they learn, choosing a meaningful way to explore, and then acting. This should be a continuous cycle for an IB learner.
The IB program is designed to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet help to create a better and more peaceful world.
IB learners strive to become all the traits found in the learner profile. They are inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk takers, balanced, and reflective.
The 5 essential elements of the program are: knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes, and action.
Knowledge: Our year is broken into six 6 week units. The units explore who we are, where we are in place and time,who we are, how we express ourselves, how we organize ourselves, how the world works, and sharing the planet.
Concepts: These are the questions we ask within our units to take our learning to a deeper level. Instead of simply saying, “the apple is red”, we explore why it is red, and how we know it is red, etc… The questions we ask are:
What is it like?
How does it work?
Why is it like that?
How is it changing?
How is it connected to other things?
What are the other points of view?
What is our responsibility?
How do we know?
Skills: We will work to develop skills necessary to function in a global society. They are classified as communication skills, thinking skills, self-management skills, social skills, and research skills.
Attitudes: We will be working on developing an internationally minded attitude in our approach to learning. Thus, as we learn, we will show: curiosity, independence, creativity, integrity, appreciation, empathy, respect, enthusiasm, confidence, cooperation, commitment, and tolerance. By developing these skills we will become internationally minded. (Which means we have become the traits listed in the learner profile)
Action: The last element of IB is a call to action. An action can big or small, as long as it takes learning to a deeper level. (Example, researching Africa and sending humanitarian supplies or learning about water and getting a new book about it from the library. The point is for learning to become personal and meaningful to the children. Thus as they learn they will be reflecting on what they learn, choosing a meaningful way to explore, and then acting. This should be a continuous cycle for an IB learner.