Newsletter no. 32 Mon. 22 Apr. 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 32
MON. 22 APR. 2019

Dear Parents,

REMINDERS FOR THIS WEEK & EARLY NEXT WEEK:
ES Dress Up Days: plan your days in advance click HERE for dates and details.

Mon. 22 Apr. - day 5: ES Earth Week begins.

Tues. 23 Apr. - day 6: Blue + Green Earth Day Dress Up Day (no Red Hats’ donation expected) and ES Earth Day Assemblies: PR-G2 from 8:45-9:30am and G3-G5 from 2:00-2:45pm in the Melawati Theatre.

Wed. 24 Apr. - day 7:

Thurs. 25 Apr. - day 8: G5 students and teachers will practice their Night of the Notables class items in the RBG Theatre from 10:30am-2:00pm.

Fri. 26 Apr. - day 1: MAP Test - Reading, from 10:30-11:30am.

**Sat. 27 Apr: G5 & HS Drama Workshops from 8:00am-5:30pm in the Melawati Theatre. See item below for further details.

**G5 DRAMA WORKSHOPS REMINDER
A reminder that 5DH students need to arrive 15-30 minutes before their scheduled Drama Workshop time with Tim Howe and the HS drama students this Sat. 27 Apr. Our class time is scheduled from 2:00-3:00pm, so please aim to have your child at school by 1:30-1:45pm at the latest. We will meet in the classroom, take attendance, discuss our plans/expectations for the session and walk over the RBG Theatre as a group, ready to begin our session on time at 2:00pm sharp. When our session is finished at 3:30pm, I’ll walk the students to the ES foyer where you can pick up your child. Please arrange to be back at school by 2:45pm for the 3:00pm pick up of your child. Thanks in advance for your help in organizing the students.

ISKL SUMMER PROGRAM
Summer Activities page.

WITHDRAWAL FROM ISKL
If your family will be withdrawing at the end of this school year, please ensure you have completed a formal withdrawal form HERE so that the school can prepare and release your child's final school reports in June. If you have any questions about re-enrolment or withdrawal, please contact the Admissions Office: admissions@iskl.edu.my

CLASS WORK LAST WEEK
Language Arts: Reading, writing, speaking & listening:
Last week, the students continued working on our next reading and writing units. The reading unit it titled, ‘Unit 4: Informational Reading to Guide and Support Research’ and the writing unit is titled, ‘Unit 4: Expository Writing (information and opinion). Both literacy units are integrated with and support our social studies unit titled, ‘Social Change’. The students continued their historical fiction/biography books in their Book Clubs and for writing, they continued to work on writing/tweaking their group scripts for our class item vignettes for our class Night of the Notables presentation. They also continued their individual research and note-taking on a social issue of their choice, which they will use to create an information or opinion essay. The essay will one of the important pieces of work included on their Social Change Blackboard Project. 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. For read aloud, I continued reading a book titled, ‘A Long Walk to Water’, by Linda Sue Park. The students also continued daily typing practice from 7:50 - 8:10am using the www.typing.com program.

Math:
Last week, the students completed our math unit titled, ‘Unit 6: Order of Operations’. Lessons completed:
Review of the unit
End-of-unit assessment
They also began our next unit, titled Unit 7: Volume and Measurement.
In addition to the above, they completed the unit pre-assessment, the tuning-in to the unit activity titled, ‘Got Cubes?’ and Lesson 1: Estimate, Measure, Estimate, involving the estimation, measurement and conversion of various items in the classroom.
The students also worked on volume and measurement using the online platform ‘Studyladder’. Students can also work on the Studyladder website at home by clicking on www.studyladder.com
As promised last week, here is the Enduring Understanding, Essential Questions and Unit Questions that the students will explore in this unit:
Enduring Understanding:
Measurements can be used to describe, compare, and understand the world around us.
Standard units of measure enable people to interpret results or data.
Essential Questions:
How does what we measure influence how we measure?
Why do we need standard units of measurement?
Unit Questions:
How can we measure volume?
What are cubic units?
Unit Overview:
In this unit, students will recognize volume as an attribute of three-dimensional space. They will understand that volume can be measured by finding the total number of same size units of volume required to fill the space without gaps or overlaps. They will understand that a 1-unit by 1-unit by 1-unit cube is the standard unit for measuring volume. They will select appropriate units, strategies, and tools for solving problems that involve estimating and measuring volume. They will decompose three-dimensional shapes and find volumes of right rectangular prisms by viewing them as decomposed into layers of arrays of cubes. They will measure necessary attributes of shapes in order to determine volumes to solve real world and mathematical problems. Students will also convert like measurement units within the metric system and solve word problems relating to those conversions.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Last week, the students continued our social studies unit titled, ‘Social Change’. The students continued working on our Night of the Notables presentation class item topic script on ‘Plastic Pollution’. The students continued their individual research on a social change issue of their choice and the notable person/people they would like to focus on for their Social Change Blackboard Projects. They took handwritten notes or used a Google doc. Their first job will be to write a five paragraph information or opinion essay on their chosen social change issue and notable person/people.   

COUNSELING LESSONS
Our G4&5 Counselor - Stephanie Stone - will conduct her next counseling lesson on Wed. 24 Apr. which is a day 7, at the usual time from 8:30-9:00am.

UPCOMING APR. & MAY 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Tues. 30 Apr: MAP Test - Math from 10:30-11:30am.
PTA Annual General Meeting (AGM), MPR 1, 9:30-11:00, for details and RSVP click HERE for RSVP (not required but appreciated for catering purposes)

Wed. 1 May: Labour Day holiday - no school

Thurs. 2 & Fri. 3 May: MAP Test make-up days (for any students who are absent on previous testing days)
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ presentation class item run-throughs with Tim Howe, in the HS Drama Studio.

Fri. 3 May: Schoolwide Parent Volunteer Appreciation Brunch in MPR4 from 10:00 - 11:30am.

Mon. 6 May: Ramadan begins
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ presentation run-through in the RBG Theatre from 10:45-12:00. Max Wright to take yearbook pics.
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ Presentation Tech & Dress Rehearsal with a G4 audience in the RBG Theatre from 1:45-2:40.

Tues. 7 May: G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ Presentation for parents in the Robert B Gaw Theatre from 5:00-6:00pm. Students stay at school after dismissal. A hard copy letter from the G5 Team will be sent home on Mon. requesting students bring their presentation clothes to school by Fri. 26 Apr.

Thurs. 9 May: ES semester 2 ASAs finish.

Fri. 10 May: Next Red Hats Free Dress Day. Suggested donation - RM5.

Tues. 14 May: ES Music Concert from 5:30-7:00pm

Mon. 20 May: Wesak Day holiday - no school

Tues. 21 May: Faculty Inservice Day - no school for students

Wed. 22 May: Nuzul Al-Quran holiday - no school

Fri. 24 May: ES Wet ‘n’ Wild Day. More details TBA

Mon. 27 May: G5 students orientation visit to the Middle School from 10:30am-12:30pm. More details TBA.

Tues. 4 Jun: G5 Social Change Blackboard Shares:
10:30-11:15 with G5 students and teachers
11:30-12:15 with G4 students and teachers
1:30-2:30 with parents

Wed. 5 & Thurs. 6 Jun: Hari Raya Puasa - no school

Fri. 7 Jun: Next Red Hats Free Dress Day - suggested donation per student - RM5.

Thurs. 13 Jun: ES Farewell Assemblies in the Melawati Theatre: PR-G2 from 11:00-11:30am, G3-5 from 2:00-2:40pm

Fri. 14 Jun: Last day of school! G5 Moving On Ceremony in the Melawati Theatre from 8:30-9:30am

Until next week,

Best regards,         

David