Year 5 Update Week 26
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
PTA Food Fair Raffle Tickets – please return your raffle ticket money back to the PTA Office asap.
Action in the PYP at BHS
Thank you for all the great examples of Action that you are taking. Action in the PYP is when students are inspired through their learning and their experiences to make a difference to their lives or the community connected to real life issues and opportunities. We would like to celebrate our students taking action outside of school
Please could you email examples to me, tsuik4@beaconhill.edu.hk, and I will share through our newsletter.
There are different types of Action. Last time I gave a description of how ‘participation’ is a form of action, below is an description of how advocacy is a form of action.
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Type of Action |
Examples |
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Advocacy Promoting an idea that you feel passionately about e.g. social, environmental or political |
Making people aware of an issue you feel passionately about Debating Sharing ideas with friends, classmates or family |
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 we have started our new Unit of Inquiry considering how ‘Energy can be converted and transformed to support everyday life’. Students unscrambled the central idea and considered what the lines of inquiry meant to them, discussing what they knew and what they would like to know. We have spent time considering and clearly identifying the differences and similarities between energy and electricity. Students explored this in small groups and represented their findings using a visual. We have also had the opportunity to explore how energy can be transferred and we have considered the different energy transfers which take place.
English
In reading this week we have been immersing ourselves in a variety of narrative nonfiction texts. As we read we have been identifying the fictional and factual aspects of the text. In addition we have been considering the main ideas from the texts and discussed what we found interesting.
In writing, we have spent time deconstructing narrative nonfiction texts, identifying and discussing the key features. We have also written our own narrative nonfiction text based on our Big Business unit. We did this by creating story maps and a list of important facts to include in the text whilst referring to our own success criteria.
Maths
In number maths, we have been looking at geometric paintings and trying to figure out what fraction of the painting each colour represents. This has given students the opportunity to discuss and prove how they are identifying equal sized shapes and if they are able to use the smallest sized shape to support the identification of other fractions. In addition, students had the opportunity to discuss and identify equivalent fractions and use their strategies for simplification. Students were encouraged to prove their thinking through pictorial representation. Students also had the opportunity to construct their own geometric paintings using a set of fractional data.
In strand maths this week we have been discussing and exploring the terms ‘probability’ and ‘chance’. The students have had practical doing this when calculating probable total of dice. They have been encouraged to prove their thinking clearly.
Transdisciplinary Theme – How the World Works
Central Idea –
Energy can be converted and transformed to support everyday life.
An inquiry into..
- Transformation of energy (function)
- Renewable and non-renewable energy (connection)
- Sustainable energy use in everyday life (causation)
An inquiry into.
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- the relationship between common fractions and decimal fractions.
- relationships between fractions, decimals, percentages.
- problems involving ratios and proportion.
Questions we are exploring in this unit:
What is a common fraction?
What is a decimal fraction?
What is the relationship between common fractions and decimal fractions?
What is an equivalent fraction?
How do I convert between common fractions and decimals fractions?
What is simplifying?
What is LCD? (Lowest common denominator)
How do you simplify fractions?
What is percentage?
How is percentage related to fractions and decimals?
Where do we use percentages?
What is ratio?
What is proportion?
When do we use ratio and proportion?
Strand Maths – Data Handling
An inquiry into…
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- Represent probabilities as a fraction
- Identify outcomes of chance experiments including equally likely outcomes
- Identify situations that are mathematically fair or unfair
Reading Focus – For this unit, our reading comprehension strategies is Determining Importance
Determining Importance – Readers read with a purpose and look for what is important.
Determining importance is a strategy that readers use to distinguish between what information in a text is most important versus what information is interesting but not necessary for understanding.
Writing Focus – Narrative Nonfiction
Big Idea: To get information across to a reader in an engaging but clear way using various structures depending on the purpose
- 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 –
