Year 5 Update Wk 5

This week our Year 5 Library Monitors were chosen and had their first meeting.  Well done to all the girls and guys who stepped up and nominated themselves to give up their lunch times to help out in the Learning Centre.

These are the 5F Library Monitors…

5F and 1L got together this week for their first buddy session.  5F gave their new friends a buddy bookmark with some great reading tips and reminders as a first little present and they read a book together…it was very sweet.  Here are some photos from their first meeting…

Here are some extra photos from last week’s trip to Hong Kong Park…

A massive, massive thank you to all our mums and dads who braved the heat to come along and help us on our trip day!  Thank you!!!!

 

• patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
• the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented

• creating, describing and visualising 2D & 3D shapes
• transforming shapes
• locating points on a gridWe continued on with investigating 3D shape this week.  Our focus was constructing 3D shapes to specific dimensions.  Lots of straw fun again!

This week our Golden Book certificates were awarded to…

5F – Sasha Fung

5D – Dev Goyani

5C – Sean Punjabi

SLT – Leah Yau 5F

Mandarin – Garnet Lau 5F

• Read the Weekly Update
• Reading Eggs – continue on with your chosen tasks
• Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
• Reading – we have all been introduced to Reading Journals so the children can go ahead and 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.  Of course, you don’t need to do all these on all nights but it’s just a few ideas to help you along.  Buddy tests are held here at school each Friday and the children will then choose their next set of words.
• UOI – please make the cover for your portfolio, your class teacher will have spoke to you about his DUE in to be printed or brought in to school by 29th September, 2017
• Mandarin (All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.)
• Ms Lynn (Home learning #2) – Please check your google classroom for details.

Big Business Crafts – soon enough our Big Business UOI will be upon us and in preparation for this Miss Fearn will be running some lunch time 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.

Below are some CAMP TIPS to help you get your child ready for our upcoming week away on camp and please let your helper/guardian know these too so they can let them try out these things…..

• please make sure they can make their own bed – including putting their own sheets on…it’s one of the first things they’ll be doing when we arrive at the camp site
• ensure they can pack and unpack their own bag – this should be practiced each day when preparing for school
• let them choose their own clothes to wear – get them to assess the weather and dress appropriately
• make sure they know how to hang up their towel so that is dry for the next shower
• make sure they can fill their own water bottle – especially if you decide to go for the Camelback type of water system with the hose…they need to have the dexterity and fine motor skills to be able to unseal and seal up the water bag themselves

Giving Back to our Community : Colours Day – Friday 29th September, 2017

As part of our 50th celebrations, we are aiming to give back to our community by holding an Action Day on the 8th December in partnership with Bethune House, Sunshine Action, Sai Kung Stray Dogs and Soap Cycling. On the 8th December, each year group will have the opportunity to help make food parcels to help those who are in need in Hong Kong. More details will follow about that day as we get closer to it.  We are aiming high and the amount of money we need to raise equates to $250 per child.

To kick-start our fundraising, we are going to have 4 days of lunchtime activities where children can make a minimum donation of HK$20 to join in fun events such as karaoke. This will build up to a very special day on Friday 29th September we are calling ‘Colours Day’ where all children will take part in one of two sponsored events – either a sponsored walk/run or a sponsored readathon depending on their interest.  Each year group will have half an hour for the events. Sponsor forms can be downloaded and printed off from today’s Newsletter. We encourage all our students and their families to support this day of action to help in our drive to support those in our community who are in need. And of course, on Friday 29th all students should come dressed in their house colours.

Start of School Arrangements – Please note that students should not arrive at school before 8.30am. Teachers are on duty from 8.30am. Any child who arrives early cannot be supervised.

Healthy Living at BHS – We promote healthy living at BHS and therefore children should only bring water to school. Please do not send milk drinks, sugary drinks or any other kind of drink. We have water fountains and taps where students can refill their (BHS) water bottles throughout the day.

Some other points for your info:

• Please avoid giving out sweets or lollies to students for rewards etc. If some are sent in for birthday treats, the children should put them away in their bags and take them home. We want to avoid students running around or going on buses home whilst eating lollies etc. I will remind the bus mums of this too.

• The outside stairs can be slippery when wet. Please remind the children who use this staircase to take extra care.
• We need one more volunteer to be on the PTA this year. Please let me know if you are interested. The first meeting is this Thursday at 3.30pm.

School Book Bags – Your child needs a named book bag in school to carry their reading books to and from school for both home readers and library books. This means that the younger children will need to remember their book bag every day.  It should contain their reading book, reading journal and on library days, library books.  The reading journal is an important part of the communication between you and your child’s teacher, therefore, please remember to add a positive comment when you have read with your child.