Year 5 Update Week 31
Tuesday 7th May – Year 5 Bassistry Arts
Monday 13th May – school closed
Tuesday 14th May – school closed
Monday 20th May – LEAP Visit
Friday 7th June – school closed
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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Advocacy Promoting an idea that you feel passionately about e.g. social, environmental or political |
Making people aware of an issue you feel passionately aboutDebating 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 students have been conducting their own inquiry into the environmental impact of Carbon Dioxide emissions. They have worked collaboratively to gather facts and have presented their findings considering how best to engage the audience.
Students have also started the design process for their sensory toy in small groups. They were full of enthusiasm and had lots of unique and creative ideas about what the toy might do and become. We revised some of the features about parallel and series circuits so they could use this information to inform their decision making.
English
Our writing focus this week has been on writing to entertain and inform.
We have used the knowledge gained from our water unit to write a narrative nonfiction piece about the water cycle. Students are working hard to use a variety of writing techniques to engage and connect with the reader. They then self and peer assessed their writing, offering constructive feedback to their peers.
Maths
In number maths this week and over the next couple of weeks we will be recapping the four operations. We started this week with division and we used our knowledge to solve word problems and, in some cases, multi-step word problems.
In strand maths we have started to look at time, specifically converting 12 hour time to 24 hour time. We have also started to tackle word problems involving reading, interpreting timetables, calculating time differences and durations.
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.
- Quizlet – 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 –
