Newsletter no. 22 Mon. 28 Jan. 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 22
MON. 28 JAN. 2019

Dear Parents,

REMINDERS FOR THIS WEEK & EARLY NEXT WEEK:
Mon. 28 Jan. - day 3: Semester 2 Swimming Program starts. It’s a day 3.
Semester 2 ASA confirmations will be available in PowerSchool.

Tues. 29 Jan; - day 4:

Wed. 30 Jan. - day 5:

Thurs. 31 Jan. - day 6:

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 (CNY) - no school

Thurs. 7 Feb. - day 7: School resumes following the CNY break

CLASS WORK LAST WEEK
Language Arts: Reading, writing, speaking & listening:
Last week for reading, the students continued their reading unit titled, ‘Fantasy Book Clubs’. The students continued working in their fantasy book clubs reading and discussing their current 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. They also completed a fantasy writing unit pre-assessment before they launched into the unit proper. I also continued reading a fantasy read aloud titled, ‘Rowan of Rin’ by Emily Rodda. 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 12: Using an area model to multiply decimals
Lesson 13: Multiply whole numbers by decimals
Lesson 14: Estimating decimal products
Lesson 15: Modeling decimal multiplication

Science:
Last week, the students continued their Amplify Science unit titled, ‘Modeling Matter: The Chemistry of Food’. The students continued their simulation where they are 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 1.4: Separating food color mixture (intro. to chromatography)  - in science lab 3
Lesson 1.5: Exploring another model of chromatography - in science lab 3
Lesson 1.6: Nanovision models (of molecules) - in the classroom

COUNSELING LESSONS
Our G4&5 Counselor - Stephanie Stone - conducted her regular lesson last Tues. morning.  Stephanie’s next lesson will be on Thurs. 2 Feb. - the next day 7, from 8:30-9:00am

UPCOMING JAN. FEB. & MAR. 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Thurs. 7 Feb. - day 7: School resumes following the CNY break

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