Year 5 Update Wk 11

Facebook Updates at Camp

During Year 3 – 6 camp BHS will be sharing photos and videos through Facebook pages for parents to see the exciting things going on.

These Facebook pages can be found linked on the BHS website and are available directly at the following links:

Year 3: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear3Camp/

Year 4: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear4Camp/

Year 5: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear5Camp/

Year 6: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear6Camp/

We hope you enjoy seeing the photos. Please do like and comment respectfully. Please also note that children will not be able to see any comments that are posted and staff on camp will not be able to reply to them.

The teachers and staff attending the camps will do their best to post photos of all of the children at some point, although this cannot be guaranteed. The main responsibility of the adults is the care and safety of the children.

BIG BUSINESS CRAFTS – This week Miss Fearn organised a baking group to work with Miss Kannis and Mrs. J to make Rice Krispie Treats. The purpose of these lessons is to expose the children to a variety of different crafts and business stall ideas so that we can have a wide variety of home-made items for our Big Business Market in April.

This week some of us also learned how to tie some interesting key chains.

Number Maths

• efficient mental strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction of decimal fractions
• efficient written strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction decimal fractions

This week Number Maths has been dominated by testing!  Final assessment task for Addition and Subtraction and a pre-assessment for Multiplication and Division were completed in Number Maths this week.

• How tools and procedures can be used to measure accurately
• How tools and procedures can be used to solve measurement problems
• The connection between measurements and other units of maths (conversion)

This week we have begun our series of practical measuring activities.  Over the coming few weeks each class working in small groups to will complete a series of challenges where they are working on consolidating their measuring skills using a variety of tools.  5F begun this week and have fun utilising stopwatches, measuring jugs, measuring tapes and scales.  We will continue to work with all the children to help prepare them for the upcoming volume and capacity unit of inquiry that will begin after camp.  Here are some photos of the first groups….

6F – Leo Lee

5D – Crystal Wong, Ian Yu

5C – Komei Bennett

NO HOMEWORK WILL BE SET THIS WEEKEND – SO PLEASE ENJOY THIS TIME TOGETHER AS A FAMILY AND DONT FORGET TO PACK AND GET READY FOR CAMP!

• Read the Weekly Update
• Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
• Reading – keep up with their reading every night.  Don’t forget to get Reading Journals signed every night and children should be reading every night.
• Spelling – each Monday the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week.  Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
• Camp – Get yourselves all ready for camp!!!

Mandarin Home Learning  

Ms Xu：Practise singing clothes song. Enjoy Camp！

 SUNSHINE ACTION FUNDRAISING

Mr Thompson is very pleased to announce, thanks to your generosity and the hard work of our students, we raised $150000.  This is a tremendous sum and I think it shows what a special community we belong to.  We can now start to purchase the food so on 8th December our students can work with Sunshine Action at school to make the food parcels for the different charities.  To help our students with the food parcels we need parent volunteers, approximately 30.  These parents will be working with groups of students to help them make the food parcels.  If you are interested please click here.

ESF Christmas Card Design

Christmas is fast approaching!  ESF wish to prepare an e-card for Christmas and are inviting ESF students to come up with a design.  The Christmas artwork could be a painting or drawing on A4 or A3 paper with any media such as watercolour, pastel, photography or digital. Please send the original artwork to M. Yu by 13, November if you would like to enter this exciting competition.   Please refer to this link if you wish to see the cards in previous years: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1e1HGWSZqL0clF3MlF2aWk3OEE?usp=shar

 

MYP junior parents

Wednesday 22nd November  – 6:30 p.m. in the school hall

Professor Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan is Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University in Australia. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and was the lead writer of the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

Professor Sullivan is one of the world’s leading authorities in Mathematics and will be making his a visit to Beacon Hill School this November. During his visit, Professor Sullivan will work alongside the teachers to challenge all our students to reach their full potential in Mathematics through the use of open-ended, rich learning tasks and problems.

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sullivan will run a  workshop for parents in order to enhance your understanding of how you may help your children in the development of Mathematical thinking. This is for parents only, there is no need for children to attend.

An e-notice will be sent to all parents, please let us know if you are attending.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Big Business Crafts – soon enough our Big Business UOI will be upon us and in preparation for this Miss Fearn will be running some lunchtime activities on Big Business crafts. This year we are having a push for the children to make and sell handmade items at their stall or provide a service….rather than just buying bit and pieces from Shan Shui Po and re-selling these on the day.  Children can volunteer to join Miss Fearn at some lunchtimes throughout the weeks to learn to make some items that they then might make and sell on their stall.  If you have a simple craft idea and would like to come into school and teach a small group (15 children) how to do it please contact your class teacher and we will arrange for you to take a group.

Just a few notes about setting off on Monday for camp….

• Eat a healthy breakfast before school.
• Check the weather forecast and please dress in sensible clothing paying attention to the temperature.
• You do not need to arrive any earlier than for a usual school day.
• Do not come up to the classroom.
• Please drop all baggage in the class lines in the playground in the morning when you arrive – not in the hall.
• Please stay in the playground, as usual, your teachers will check in with you there and we will head up to the hall when the Year 4s have vacated it.
• Find Mr. Harrison and give in all essential medication – and medication forms
• Do not send in ‘just in case’ medication
• Big luggage bag – have all you need for the week and please have your name clearly on it.
• Day bag – have all you need for Monday’s hike……water bottle (full of water only), healthy snack, rain jacket, hat, sunscreen (please apply it before school), mosquito repellent (please apply it before school)
• Do not bring any other food
• Be wearing your sensible camp clothes including good shoes for walking in.  Trainers are fine (preferred)

We have check with our camp instructors and we do not need any water clothing for Monday.

JUST FYI – All Year 5s will be kicking off camp in the hall and will be only heading out to the buses around 10 am….so please say your goodbyes when you drop off your children around 8:30 am.