Year 5 Update Wk 13
Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday December 1st – Y5 Bake Sale
Friday December 4th – Year 5 Sharing Through the Arts Day
Friday December 11th – PTA Christmas Disco
Wednesday December 16th – BHS Christmas concert
From Monday to Wednesday next week, BHS will be hosting visitors from the Council of International Schools. Please help us to remind the children about expectations around the school, i.e. walking in the corridors and stairs, whole body listening, etc.
There has been a letter sent home with the children about the Year 5 bake sale on Tuesday the 1st of December. The PTA would be very grateful if you could contribute 8-10 individual homemade cakes/cookies for this event. Hint: Brownies without nuts are a big success!
First off, we’d like to thank the children for a wonderful time at camp last week. The students had lots of fun, as did the teachers and we’re looking forward to seeing some of their new found independence in the classroom as well.
This week in Y5 we have been very busy getting back into the swing of things. The children have been working on their independent inquires, drama performances, dance routine and artwork to share with you on our big sharing day.
Next week, we will be moving into our fourth and final week of our UOI rotations focusing on Music, Drama, Art and the student’s independent inquiry.
Through our recount text type, the children will be working on finalizing their English pieces of diary extracts and poetry for our sharing day. We will be encouraging the children to edit and up-level their work using their understanding of figurative language and time connectives.
5A: Marcus Fan – For being courageous and always having a positive attitude while on his first BHS camp.
5P: Kadan Ng – For always participating in each activity with a positive attitude.
5Y: Veer Sonney- For his positive attitude throughout camp and for trying many new activities
As your children are now in the upper school, they are expected to be completing 30-45 minutes of homework each night. This will be made up of: approx 15-20 minutes reading with an adult, 10-15 spelling work, and their weekly assigned task.
This week:
For homework this week we would like all children to continue their personal inquiries on migration. They may wish to gather more research on their individual questions, read current newspaper articles or websites on certain issues, or work on their presentations. They may store any of their work online in their migration folders on the Google drive.
We would also like the children to continue practising their wonderful dance moves for our sharing day performance. Specifically, to plan out and practice their 4 poses during the dance.
Below is a youtube clip of the song used in the dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIy024iRe5o
