Newsletter no. 35 Mon. 13 May 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 35
MON. 13 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. 13 May - day 3: ES Music Concert for ES students and teachers - Gamelan, Recorder and Band Presentation in the Melawati Theatre from 9:00-9:45am. Gamelan, Strings and Choir presentation from 11:00-11:30am.

Tues. 14 May - day 4: ES Music Concert for parents in the Melawati Theatre. Gamelan, Strings and Choir at 5:30pm and Gamelan, Recorder and Band at 6:30pm. Band students will need to be in the Instrumental Music Room by 6:00pm.

Tues. 14-Thurs. 16 May: ES Art Exhibition in the Performing Arts Foyer and Melawati Theatre Foyer on Level 1

Wed. 15 May - day 5:

Thurs. 16 May - day 6:

Fri. 17 May - day 7:

Sat. 18 May: Community Recycling Program in the cell phone car park from 9:30-11:30am.

G5 ‘NIGHT OF THE NOTABLES’ (NotN) PRESENTATION THANKS
Many thanks to all parents who attended our G5 NotN Presentation last Tues. night 7 May from 5:00-6:00pm. Students and teachers worked hard to prepare for the presentation. I’d also like to take this opportunity to congratulate all G5 students, but especially 5DH students for their fantastic presentation! I think you will agree, they all did a great job on the stage, delivering their lines on the night with volume, passion and clarity. I’d also like to thank the students for their efforts in creating their group scripts and memorizing their lines. The students will now focus their attention on completing their ‘Social Change Blackboards’. Please see below for further details regarding our blackboard learning shares. Following the presentation last Tues. night, the students completed a reflection on the presentation and process on their student blogs, so take a look at what they wrote on their student blogs on the bottom right-hand corner of the 5DH Class Blog.

SOCIAL CHANGE BLACKBOARDS
Now that the ‘Night of the Notables Presentation’ is over, 5DH students have begun working on their ‘Social Change Blackboards’, which will showcase their learning on an important social issue and a notable person/people involved in making a positive difference on that issue. Students will present their blackboards to G5 students and teachers on Tues. 4 June from 10:30-11:15am. They will also present to G4 students and teachers on the same day from 11:30am-12:15pm and also to parents of G5 students from 1:30-2:30pm. Parents will be sent an invitation email message shortly. With only 13 school days remaining before the Social Change Blackboard Shares, the students home learning for this coming week is to work on various pieces of work from the G5 Blackboard Learning Celebration Checklist - 2019. Since all the work for the blackboards is electronic, please allow your child to have access to a laptop or desktop computer at home so they can complete the various checklist items and meet the Mon. 3 June work deadline.

G5 ORIENTATION VISIT TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL
On Mon. 27 May, G5 students and teachers will be involved in a MS Orientation Visit. The orientation program will be conducted from 9:00- 11:00am. All G5 students will be involved in the program. G5 students will not go to their usual PE or World Language lessons on this day. Even if your child is leaving ISKL at the end of this school year, they are expected to participate. The main purpose of the visit is for the students to meet the MS Administrators, their G6 teachers, learn about the Middle School 1:1 laptop program and be introduced to their G6 schedules. The MS will provide our G5 students with a morning snack. Since it’s Ramadan, alternative arrangements will be made during snack time at the MS for those G5 students who are fasting.

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 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 are working on using their research to create an information or opinion essay. Some students have completed their essays. 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:
Lesson 10: Calculating volume in real world problems
Lesson 11: Calculating the volume of composite figures (combined rectangular prisms)
Lesson 12: Solving real world volume problems
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 worked on or completed their five paragraph information or opinion essay on their chosen social change issue and notable person/people. Some students have begun working on other pieces of work for their Social Change Blackboards.   

COUNSELING LESSONS
Stephanie Stone’s last counseling lesson for this school year will be on Fri. 17 May - the next day 7 - at the usual time from 8:30-9:00am.

UPCOMING MAY & JUNE 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
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

Thurs. 23 May - day 8:

Fri. 24 May - day 1: ES Wet ‘n’ Wild Day. ES Parents please sign up HERE

Mon. 27 May: G5 students Orientation Visit to the Middle School from 9:00-11:00am.

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