Newsletter no. 33 Mon. 29 Apr. 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 33
MON. 29 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. 29 Apr. - day 2:

Tues. 30 Apr. - day 3: 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 (day 4) & Fri. 3 May (day 5): MAP Test make-up days (for any students who were absent on previous testing days)
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ presentation class item run-throughs with Tim Howe, in the HS Drama Studio, from 10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30-2:30pm.

Fri. 3 May - day 5: Schoolwide Parent Volunteer Appreciation Brunch in MPR4 from 10:00 - 11:30am.

G5 DRAMA WORKSHOPS THANKS
Parents, thank you so much for supporting our Drama Workshop with Tim Howe and his HS drama students last Sat. 27 Apr. Your support in getting your child to school and picked up on time was very much appreciated. I thought our 5DH session from 2:00-3:30pm was very worthwhile for the students and gave them much needed direction and tips to improve their presentation skills and use of the stage.  The students and I are looking forward to presenting to you on Tues. 7 May in the RBG Theatre at 5pm! I sent a huge thank you to Tim Howe - HS Director of Drama and Theatre Manager, Sesha Kalimuthu - Asst Theatre Manager, Daniel DeCruz - Theatre Tech Manager, and the various HS drama students who worked hard with our G5 students all day on Sat. from 8:00am-5:30pm! Their energy, creativity and dedication to helping us is very much appreciated.

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-Enrollment 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 practicing and tweaking their group scripts for our class item vignettes for our class Night of the Notables presentation. Most students have completed their individual research and note-taking on a social issue of their choice and are working on using their research 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 completed reading a book titled, ‘A Long Walk to Water’, by Linda Sue Park and began a new read aloud, titled ‘Iqbal’ by Francesco D’Adamo, which is a biography of child labor activist, Iqbal Masih, from Pakistan. The students also continued daily typing practice from 7:50 - 8:10am using the www.typing.com program.

Math:
Last week, the students continued working on Unit 7: Volume and Measurement. They completed the following lessons:
Lesson 2: ‘Water, Water’, which involved the estimation of the amount of water used on average by individuals and households each day - 340 liters - compared to the 23 liters of water per astronaut per day on the NASA space shuttle missions. The students were surprised by these figures!
Checkpoint 1
Lesson 3: ‘Building With Centimeter Cubes’ - explore volume by building with and counting unit cubes.
Lesson 4: ‘Packing’ - find the volume of a right rectangular prism by packing with cubic units and counting.
Lesson 5: Composing and Decomposing Right Rectangular Prisms’ - compose and decompose right rectangular prisms using layers.
Lesson 6: Determining the Volume of Rectangular Prisms’ - by counting centimeter cubes.
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

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’ and practicing/refining their group items. 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 continued their individual research and note-taking and working on their five paragraph information or opinion essay on their chosen social change issue and notable person/people.   

COUNSELING LESSONS
Our G4&5 Counselor - Stephanie Stone - conducted two counseling lessons last week on Tues. 23 Apr. and also on Wed. 24 Apr. The first date was a lesson make-up day for a lesson missed the previous week. Stephanie’s next lesson will be on Tues. 7 May, which is a day 7, at the usual time from 8:30-9:00am.

UPCOMING APR. & MAY 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Mon. 6 May: Ramadan begins
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ presentation run-through in the RBG Theatre from 10:45-12:00. Max Wright will take NotN 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: G4 & G5 Novel Knockout - all day for participating students.
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 was sent home last Mon. requesting students bring their presentation clothes to school by Fri. 26 Apr. Some students still need to bring their black or white clothes.

Thurs. 9 May: ES semester 2 ASAs finish.

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

Mon. 13 May: ES Music Concert Dress Rehearsal for performers only in the Melawati Theatre from 9:00-9:45am.

Tues. 14 May: ES Music Concert Dress Rehearsal for students and teachers in the Melawati Theatre from 9:00-9:45am
ES Music Concert for parents 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