Year 5 Update Week 25
Tuesday 19th-Friday 22nd March – Council of International Schools (CIS) will be in school this week
Monday 25th March – visit to Island School science labs and Green Book Week Starts – Please see important info for details.
Friday 29th March – PTA International Food Fair...see you there! (Please note, children should be collected after school and will not be supervised here at school between the end of the day and the Food Fair)
Thursday 4th April – ESF Choral Concert
Friday 5th April – Ching Ming Festival.….no school
Wednesday 10th April – Easter Concert
Friday 12 April – last day of school before Easter holidays, 12 pm finish
Monday 29th April – back to school for Term 3
Wednesday 1st May – public holiday… no school
Monday 6th May – visit to Island School science labs TBC ….more info to follow.
Tuesday 7th May – Year 5 Bassistry Arts
Monday 13th May – school closed
Tuesday 14th May – school closed
International Food Fair Poster Competition
Create a poster using the computer, crayons or felt tips, advertising our International Food Fair.
There will be a prize for the winning poster and it will be printed and displayed in ESF schools and other venues!
Please write your name and class on the back of the poster and hand it to Mrs Mulligan (Rm 301) by 20th March 2018.
Your Poster MUST include the following information:
Beacon Hill School PTA International Food Fair
Address: 23, Ede Road, Kowloon Tong
Date: Friday 29th March 2018
Live Entertainment
Children’s games with prizes
Nail and transfer Tattoo Bar
Bouncy Castle
The Grand Raffle Draw
This year we will be trying to be more eco friendly and minimise waste
Bowls and cutlery hire – $10 deposit
Please read this message from our Student Council…
Five ways to Wellbeing Logo Competition
This week we have launched our Student Council Logo Competition for the 5 Ways to Well Being. The children have been challenged to design a logo for one of the 5 ways. Click here to see our Google Slides that have all the information. Please, can all designs given to Mr. Thompson by….
5D – Monday
5F – Tuesday
5C – Thursday
PE – please note that some PE lessons might have changed days. Can you please take a look at when your child’s PE days will be for this new UOI? Full PE kit must be worn on these days…..thank you.
5D – Monday and Friday
5F – Wednesday and Thursday
5C – Wednesday and Friday
Unit of Inquiry
This week was the big day! We had so much fun at the market day buying and selling. A massive thank you for all your support, both on the day and in the run up. It really is a fantastic unit for teaching the children about teamwork and independence. Here are some photos of the practice run 5D had with their year 1 buddies on Tuesday and some from the day itself.
English
As well as preparing answers for the questions we may be asked, we used some games to develop our public speaking in preparation for the big business market day. We used the questions on the back of the positive postcards to practice. It really helped during the fair!
Maths
Our practice with money and subtraction word problems came in really handy at the market day! We had worked in class on various problems and even set up a small stall to practice how we worked with money.
Transdisciplinary Theme – How We Organise Ourselves
Central Idea – There are many factors at work within a workplace
- functioning effectively as a team (function)
- how the components in a marketplace operate – (price, budget, profit, loss, supply and demand) (causation)
- research and marketing (reflection)
An inquiry into.
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- efficient mental strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division
- efficient written strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division
- The relationships between these strategies and their use across a variety of problems.
Questions we are exploring in this unit:
How can we show multiplication and division of whole numbers?
How can we multiply and divide decimal numbers using a written format?
What are the different ways to multiply and divide?
What mental strategies help us to multiply?
What mental strategies help us to divide?
What is the difference between short and long division?
How many ways can you represent remainders?
When is it best to use short division or multiplication?
When is it best to use long division or multiplication?
How can we add and subtract decimal numbers mentally?
Why do I need to know my multiplication facts?
An inquiry into…
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- How data can be collected
- Using different scales on graphs and charts
- How data can be interpreted
Questions we are exploring in this unit:
What questions can be posed to give rise to the collection of data?
How are different graphs and charts constructed?
How (and why) are different scales used on graphs?
What is the purpose of mode and mean?
What have we learned that will help us read and interpret the data?
Can the data be interpreted in a different way by someone else?
Reading Focus – For this unit, our reading comprehension strategies are Synthesising and Questioning.
Synthesising – It’s best to think of synthesising as an ongoing, multi-step process. We want students to stop multiple times to evaluate what they know or think they know about some element of the text. Elements like the topic, the characters, the problem, etc. Each time students stop reading, they reflect, they combine their previous thoughts with new information and they form new ideas.
Questioning – To aid comprehension, skilful readers ask themselves questions before, during, and after they read. We can help the children become more proficient by modelling this and encouraging them to use it when they read independently.
Successful reading is not simply the mechanical process of “decoding” text. Rather, it is a process of active inquiry. Good readers approach a text with questions and develop new questions as they read, for example:
“What is this story about?”
“What does the main character want?”
“Will she get it?” “If so, how?”
Even after reading, engaged readers still ask questions:
“What is the meaning of what I have read?”
“Why did the author end the paragraph (or chapter, or book) in this way?”
“What was the author’s purpose in writing this?”
5C – Rheanne Chan
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks or feel free to try any others that you feel you want to practice.
- Prodigy – please continue on with your Prodigy online games.
- 5F & 5C – please continue to use Quizlet to help you learn your spelling words and meanings.
- Spelling – The children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. The will happen on a Monday for 5F, Wednesday for 5D and Friday for 5C. 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.
- Reading – The children will be choosing leveled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent. The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night? Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading
- Mandarin Home Learning –
