Year 5 Update Week 27
Tuesday 2nd April – Wear Blue for Autism Day
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….more info to follow
Monday 13th May – school closed
Tuesday 14th May – school closed
Remember to wear blue on Tuesday to show your support for Autism Awareness Day. All donations will go towards the purchase of a wheelchair accessible school bus for JCSRS.
Minimum donation $20.
PTA Food Fair Raffle Tickets – please return your unsold raffle tickets 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 a 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
Year 6 PYP Action
Here is an exciting slideshow for your information from one of our Year 6 PYPX Groups, please go ahead and check it out!
Unit of Inquiry
Science Lessons at Island School Science Labs – this week we had a great time as we headed over to Island School to work with Mrs Wightman in her science lab to learn about Energy transfer. We got on our goggles, learned about how to handle and read scientific instruments and performed a very exciting experiment. I am sure you heard all about it on Monday night! It certainly gave us a great taster as to what it is going to be like in Secondary School. Thank you so much Mrs Wightman!
Unscramble the Central Idea – we worked on finishing our unscrambles this week.
Energy Pathways – here are our energy pathways group organisers where we tried to plot the transfer of energy….some of us were able to easily able to make the connection way back to the dinosaurs!
English
Reading – Once again this week we have spent some time enjoying good books and good narrative nonfiction stories.
Illustrator Visit – This week we all were lucky to have a guest illustrator come into school to work with us all in this Green Book Week.
Illustrator, author, storyteller – Liz’s character matches her work – colourful, imaginative and enthusiastic. Liz has been illustrating since 1999 and has travelled far and wide for Authors Abroad and is just back from visiting schools in Vietnam.
Here’s her website if you’d like to find out a little more…
Here are a few snaps from the Year 5 session….
Green Book Character Dress Up – What fun we had today to show our school spirit! We had some very creative characters come to school on Tuesday. We had a range from environmentalists, modern characters, butterflies and fairies, sports characters, Harry Potter characters and also a Robin Hood, Mathilda and a Ballerina! Well done all who joined in.
This year’s winner from each Year 5 class….
- Tianne Leung in 5F as Fly Guy
- 5F Special Mention to Hao Sen Liu for Robin Hood and Teresa Rana as Minnie Mouse.
- Anna Ng in 5D as Mandrake Root
- 5D Special Mention to Evelyn Tung as Dory
- Cass Lam, Cherry Ho, Savannah So and Charlie Yu in 5C as Snoopy and Woodstocks
- 5C Special Mention to Anson Chiu as Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls
Decorate Our Door Competition – this week we also worked hard to decorate our door. The Year 5 mentor text that we have been reading and discussing is called Energy Island and we made pinwheels to go on our door with our text blurb. Take a look at our finished product!
Sentence Crafting –
Maths – In amongst, all the fantastic Green Book Week activities this week we did manage to continue on with Fractions. Decimals and Percentages for Number Maths this week and Probability for Strand Maths.
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 –
