{"id":5424,"date":"2012-09-22T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T06:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2012-09-22T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T06:43:39","slug":"passion-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2012\/09\/22\/passion-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"PASSION PROJECTS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grade Four students will be commencing their first \u201cPassion Project\u201d of the year.\u00a0 A Passion Project is a research opportunity for children to take their interests in the Units of Inquiry, a little further than investigated in the class.\u00a0 This project aims to develop Research, Social, Communication, Thinking and Self Management Skills over the course of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The students will be given several options for presentation from which they can choose one that they prefer.\u00a0 This will allow them to demonstrate their strengths, and, over the course of the year, to try more than one way to present knowledge and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This first Passion Project will have significant periods of time devoted to it in the classroom as well as some time during homework time.\u00a0 Once the first Passion Project is completed, the students will be expected to choose TWO other Units of Inquiry in the year for Passion Projects.\u00a0 They are encouraged to look at the Units of Inquiry and consider which two they would like to use for their Passion Projects.\u00a0 For these individual projects, children will be asked to do them largely at home, although time will be allocated in the class to support children wherever needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first Passion Project due date is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">week of October 20<\/span>.\u00a0 During that week, children will be invited to present to the class and any interested parents this first Passion Project.\u00a0 Stay tuned for times and details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Saunders<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>PS. Please note that the 3,4,5 regular Homework routine commences this Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families &nbsp; Grade Four students will be commencing their first \u201cPassion Project\u201d of the year.\u00a0 A Passion Project is a research opportunity for children to take their interests in the Units of Inquiry, a little further than investigated in the class.\u00a0 This project aims to develop Research, Social, Communication, Thinking and Self Management Skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}