NEWSLETTER NO. 34
MON. 6 MAY. 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. 6 May - day 6: Ramadan begins
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ Presentation Tech & Dress Rehearsal in the RBG Theatre from 10:45-12:15. Max Wright will take NotN Yearbook photos from 10:45-11:15.
G5 ‘Night of the Notables’ Presentation Practice with a G4 audience in the RBG Theatre from 1:45-2:40. This presentation will be videoed. Later, we will share the link to the presentation with students and parents.
Tues. 7 May - day 7: 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. See item below for after school schedule.
Wed. 8 May - day 8:
Thurs. 9 May - day 1: ES semester 2 ASAs finish.
Fri. 10 May - day 2: Next Red Hats Free Dress Day. Suggested donation - RM5.
ES Music Concert Dress Rehearsal - for performers only - Band performers from 9:00-9:45am in the Instrumental Band Room. Gamelan, choir and string performers will practice in various rooms from 11:00-11:45am.
G5 STUDENTS’ AFTER SCHOOL SCHEDULE ON TUES. 7 MAY
Students will stay at school after dismissal. They will not go to ASAs or baseball.
Here is the schedule:
2:45-3:00 Students enjoy a snack in G5 common area
3:00-3:15 Students change into their black and white presentation clothes.
3:15-3:30 Students walk to the RBG Theatre
3:30-4:30 Students do a run-through of the NotN Presentation.
5:00-6:00 Present to parents
6:00-6:10 Parents can take photos
6:10-6:20 Students walk to G5 and change into school uniforms and hand in presentation tee shirts.
6:20 Students to leave with parents.
ISKL SUMMER PROGRAM
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 reading unit titled, ‘Unit 4: Informational Reading to Guide and Support Research’ and our 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 continued reading a book 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:
Checkpoint 2
Lesson 7: Using multiplication to calculate volume
Lesson 8: Using centimeters and millimeters to calculate volume
Lesson 9: How many ways? Developing a formula for calculating the volume of cubes and rectangular prisms.
Last Tues. the students also completed their online MAP math test for their math lesson.
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 to practice our Night of the Notables presentation class items on ‘Plastic Pollution’. The students also 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 to use their individual research to create a five paragraph information or opinion essay on their chosen social change issue and notable person/people.
COUNSELING LESSONS
Since there was no day 7 last week, there was no counseling lesson. Stephanie Stone’s next lesson will be on Tues. 7 May - the next day 7, at the usual time from 8:30-9:00am.
UPCOMING APR. & MAY 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Mon. 13 May: ES Music Concert - Gamelan, Recorder and Band presentation for the ES in the Melawati Theatre from 9:00-9:45am. Gamelan, Strings and Choir presentation for the ES from 11:00-11:30am. G5 students and teachers will be in the audience.
Tues. 14 May: ES Music Concert for parents in the Melawati Theatre. Gamelan, Strings and Choir at 5:30pm and Gamelan, Recorder and Band at 6:30pm.
Sat. 18 May: Community Recycling Program in the cell phone car park from 9:30-11:30am.
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. ES Parents please sign up HERE
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 Project Shares:
10:30-11:15 - G5 students will share with other with other G5 students and teachers
11:30-12:15 - G5 students will share with G4 students and teachers
1:30-2:30 - G5 students will share 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 Robert B Gaw Theatre from 8:30-9:30am
Until next week,
Best regards,
David
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