Newsletter no. 25 Mon. 25 Feb. 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 25
MON. 25 FEB. 2019

Dear Parents,

REMINDERS FOR THIS WEEK & EARLY NEXT WEEK:
Mon. 25 Feb. - day 3: All Semester 2 ASA fees are due.
PowerSchool will be open for Student-Led Conference sign up for families with one child in the ES.

Tues. 26 Feb. - day 4:

Wed 27 Feb. - day 5: Parenting workshop session with Jane Thompson.  Please click HERE for more information: Click the blue Sign Up for access within link.

Thurs. 28 Feb. - day 6: ES Scholastic Book Club orders due. Online ordering only - no cash. Make a credit card payment and your order will be delivered to school. See flyer in your child's backpack for details. click HERE to order online.

Fri. 1 Mar. - day 7:

Sat. 2 Mar: ‘ISKL Celebrates’ evening at the Four Season Hotel from 7:00pm

STUDENTS LEAVING SCHOOL EARLY
From the ES Admin: Gate Pass for students leaving school early is a safety issue:
Parents, please remember - if your child needs to leave prior to the end of the school day, you must have a pass from the ES Office to exit the campus. Teachers have been instructed to release students through the ES Office instead of directly from their classrooms.

SIGN-UP REMINDER FOR OUR MARCH STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES
How to Sign Up:
This year the ES conference sign up will be online via PowerSchool. Please see the user guide below to assist you in the process:
ES Parent Teacher Conference Parent User Guide

Timeline for Sign Up:
At the ES our practice is to schedule families with multiple siblings first in order to have them scheduled back to back and avoid overlapping.  In keeping with that practice PowerSchool will be open February 20, 2019 for families with multiple siblings and on February 25, 2019 for families with one child in the ES. 
Questions?
For rescheduling or conflicts please contact Sumathy Kandiah skandiah@iskl.edu.my.  For PowerSchool technical questions please contact slchan@iskl.edu.my.

G5-G6 TRANSITION TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT MEETING IS APPROACHING
From the Middle School Admin:
We would like to invite you to their “Stepping into Middle School” information evening. On Monday, March 11, at 7:00 pm in the new Robert B. Gaw Theatre. We will be giving a one-hour presentation on the nuts and bolts of the Middle School. The focus of the evening is to give you the information and support that you will need to help us help your child transition smoothly to the Middle School. While the examples we will use will be ISKL Middle School specific, we believe the evening will be helpful to you and your child whether you will be transitioning to the Middle School at ISKL or to another city. Students are welcome to attend; however, please know that we will be visiting and speaking to them as a G5 cohort very soon and will be hosting them here in the Middle School later in May. We hope you can join us on Monday March 11 and we look forward to welcoming you to the Middle School.

ES BOOK WEEK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
ES Book Week has been moved to the week beginning Mon. 11 Mar. 2019.
ES Book sale will be on Wed. 6, Thurs. 7 and Fri. 8 Mar. so you and your child can browse and buy books before or after your student-led conference.
The ES Book Swap is still on Wed. 13 Mar. - more details TBA
The ES Book Character Dress-up Day will be on Fri. 15 Mar. - more details TBA

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 continued writing a short fantasy story and they 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 continued reading a series of short fantasy stories by Paul Jennings from his books, Unreal, Unbelievable, Uncanny and Quirky Tales.  The students also continued daily typing practice from 7:50 - 8:10am using the www.typing.com program.

Math:
Last week, the students completed Unit 4: Place Value and Decimal Operations. They completed the end-of-unit assessment early in the week. In the middle of last week, the students began working on Unit 5 titled: ‘Multiplying and Dividing Fractions’.
Lessons covered last week:
Tuning-in to the unit activity: Sharing Candy Bars
Lesson 1: Fractions as division

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. So far, the students have completed all the chapter 1 and 2 lessons. Last week, they also began the chapter 3 lessons:
Lesson 2.4: Models of Solubility was conducted in the classroom
Lesson 2.5: Making sense of Solubility - in the classroom
Lesson 3.1: Investigating Attraction - in science lab 3. 

COUNSELING LESSONS
Our G4&5 Counselor - Stephanie Stone - will conduct her next counseling lesson on Tues. Fri. 1 Mar. - the next day 7 - from 8:30-9:00am

UPCOMING FEB. & MAR. 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Thurs. 7 & Fri. 8 Mar: ES Parent-Teacher Conferences. G5 students will be doing Student-Led Conferences. Please refer to Julie Olson’s email message to all parents for details.

Mon. 11 - Fri. 15 Mar: ES Book Week

Wed 13 Mar: ES Book Swap! Check your book shelves at home with your child and make some choices for the book swap.  Further details TBA.

Fri. 15 Mar: ES Book Character Dress-up Day.

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

Thurs. 21 Mar: World Down Syndrome Day. Wear orange clothing.

Fri. 22 Mar: Fantasy reading and writing units end with a G5 ‘Fantasy Character Dress Up Day’ and sharing fantasy stories with G2 students. Details - TBA.

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

Mon. 1 Apr: School resumes

Until next week,

Best regards,         

David