Newsletter no. 21 Mon. 21 Jan. 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 21
MON. 21 JAN. 2019

Dear Parents,

REMINDERS FOR THIS WEEK & EARLY NEXT WEEK:
Mon. 21 Jan. - day 6: While its a public holiday for Thaipusam, it’s a school day at ISKL

Tues. 22 Jan. - day 7:

Wed. 23 Jan. - day 8: ES Parent Workshop: Learning in the ES, 8:15-9:45am in the ES Community Room.
Semester 2 ASA registrations will close in PowerSchool at 10:00am.
‘Welcome Back to Semester 2 Assembly’ for G3-5 in the Melawati Theatre from 2:00-2:30pm

Thurs. 24 Jan. - day 1: ES Parent Workshop in the ES Community Room from 8:15-9:45am.
Visiting Author Presentation by Matt Dickinson in MPR4 from 1:45-2:30pm

Fri. 25 Jan. - day 2: Red Hats Free Dress Day - suggested donation RM5.
ES PTA New Parent Reception in MPR1 from 9:30-11:30am

Sat. 26 Jan: Community Recycling Program in the Cell Phone Car Park from 9:30-11:30am

G5 HOSPITAL VISITS POSTPONED
Parents, I was contacted recently by our contact person at the KL Children's Hospital Cancer Ward and she said they are going to begin moving slowly to the new hospital building at the beginning of February 2019, so they won't be able to honour our semester 2 Sunday morning student visits until further notice. I will let you know when our visits can resume. Once our visits resume, please know that we will give priority to any students who were not able to visit the hospital during semester 1.

CLASS WORK LAST WEEK
Language Arts: Reading, writing, speaking & listening:
Last week, the students began our next reading unit titled, ‘Fantasy Book Clubs’. The students completed a unit pre-assessment, a fantasy tuning in slideshow and they began working in their fantasy book clubs reading and discussing new fantasy books. For writing, the students also continued their year-long ‘Free Choice Writing Project’ where they continued the process of writing and publishing their own realistic or fantasy story on their laptops using a Google doc. I also began reading a new fantasy read aloud titled, ‘Rowan of Rin’ by Emily Rodda. This Mon. the students will complete a fantasy writing unit pre-assessment before they launch into the unit proper. The students also continued daily typing practice from 7:50 - 8:10am using the www.typing.com program.

Math:
Last week, the students continued Unit 4: Place Value and Decimal Operations. They completed the following lessons:
Lesson 9: Adding Decimals
Lesson 10: Subtracting Decimals
Lesson 11: Decimal Adding & Subtracting Centers
Checkpoint 2
Lesson 12: Using an Area Model to Multiply Decimals

Science:
Last week, the students began a brand new science unit from Amplify Science titled, ‘Modeling Matter: The Chemistry of Food’. The students began a simulation where they were placed in the role of food scientists who work for a fictitious company titled, ‘Good Food Production Inc’. We are conducting lessons in the science labs and classrooms. The students completed the following lessons last week:
Lesson 1.1: Pre-assessment - in the classroom
Lesson 1.2: Introducing Food Science - science lab 3
Lesson 1.3: Made of Matter - in the classroom
Click on 'Photos' on the class blog to see some pics of the students working on the matter unit in science lab 3.

COUNSELING LESSONS
Stephanie Stone’s next lesson will be this Tues. 22 Jan. - the next day 7, from 8:30-9:00am

UPCOMING JAN. FEB. & MAR. 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Mon. 28 Jan: Semester 2 Swimming Program starts. It’s a day 3.
Semester 2 ASA confirmations will be available in PowerSchool.

Fri. 1 Feb: Start of 6-day break with Federal Territory Day holiday - no school

Mon. 4 Feb: ISKL holiday - no school

Tues. 5 & Wed. 6 Feb: Chinese New Year holiday - no school.

Fri. 8 Feb: 100th day of school

Mon. 11 Feb: Semester 2 ASAs to begin.

Thur. 14 Feb: Valentine’s Day & ES Red Hat’s Free Dress Day - suggested donation RM5.

Tues. 19 Feb: 5DH students start the ES morning announcements

Thurs. 21 Feb: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus Grand Opening. More details - TBA.

Fri. 22 Feb: ES Chinese New Year Cultural Day. CNY Assembly in the Melawati Theatre from 11:00-11:40am. More details TBA

Sat. 23 Feb: Community Recycling Program in the Cell Phone Car Park from 9:30-11:30am

Mon. 25 Feb: All Semester 2 ASA fees are due. ES Book Week begins.

Thurs. 7 & Fri. 8 March: ES Parent-Teacher Conferences. G5 students will be doing Student-Led Conferences.

Fri. 15 Mar: ES Red Hats Free Dress Day - suggested donation RM5.

Sat. 16 Mar: Community Recycling Program in the Cell Phone Car Park from 9:30-11:30am

Mon. 18 Mar: Faculty Inservice Day - no school for students

Sat. 23 - Sun. 31 Mar: Mid-semester break

Mon. 1 Apr: School resumes

Until next week,

Best regards,         

David