Paul

We have begun listening to a series of stories about Filipino children. We use a Venn Diagram to show a comparison of our lives with that of the person on the photo. BOPDs are eager to create their own diagrams to have a one-on-one comparison of lives with the next people in the photos. In the end, we looked at the information and asked what learning took place. One student said he learned that we are lucky to have our families and house. A teacher said she learned to be grateful.

What's behind the picture?

How can we ask ourselves questions to help us understand something?

Through the story, "Zoom" BOPDs used their eyes to tell what's happening and yet they realised that sometimes they do not see the whole picture. There's a story lying behind a picture and it may be different from what one sees. Students worked in pairs to write their thoughts about a picture. They wrote what they thought, what they believed, what they wonder about. We came together as a class and focused on one poster and in the end, Ms Montilla read the story about the boy on the photo. His name is Paul and he is one of the many children from the book, "Where the children are".