Newsletter no. 36 Mon. 20 May 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 36
MON. 20 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. 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: Last day for counseling lessons.
ES Counselor Chat: "Moving on or Staying Behind: Helping you and your children during transitions!" This will be helpful for all families, whether you are staying or leaving. Please fill the form  if you plan to attend

Fri. 24 May - day 1: ES Wet ‘n’ Wild & Swimming Carnival Day. ES Parents please sign up HERE
Red Hats’ Free Dress Day. Suggested student donation - RM5.
Last day for students to borrow library books

Mon. 27 May - day 2: All library books to be returned to the library.
G5 students Orientation Visit to the Middle School from 9:00-11:00am. See below for details.
First ever all school ISKL assembly in the jungle (MS/HS) gym from 2:00-2:30pm. All Parents are welcome to attend.
Parents are also invited to a PTA Parent Coffee honoring HoS Dr. Norma Hudson in MPR 1, 2:35-3:35pm. Coffee, tea, afternoon snacks will be provided. Click HERE to RSVP

WET & WILD & SWIMMING CARNIVAL DAY
On Fri. 24 May, the PTA and ES PE Dept will be holding our annual Wet & Wild and Swimming Carnival Day. G5 students will be in the pool first from 8:15-9:00, showing their swimming skills and then they will move to the field from 9:05-9:50 for the wet & wild activity stations. Students should come to school on Fri. morning with their swimsuits on under their school uniforms. They should bring a change of underwear to change into after the event. In the pool, the goal is for students to show the skill progression that they have been making throughout the year in their PE swim lessons. While we are having swim races on this day, our focus is all about having fun. So we're skipping the ribbons, trophies and points totals, and focusing on students showing what they can do and enjoying their time in the pool. At the same time as races are happening in the pool, the PTA will be running the Wet & Wild games out on the field. Click HERE for all the details.

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-enrolment or Withdrawal, please contact the Admissions Office: admissions@iskl.edu.my

G5 SUMMER READING LIST
Our Librarian - Suji Dehart - has updated the Summer Reading list page on the ES Library website. This page gives you a wide range of books to choose from, both in age of your kids, and also from different places. Also, here is a list of questions you can ask your child about their reading. I hope you find the above links useful.

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 discontinued their historical fiction/biography books in their Book Clubs because they focused on working on the various pieces of work they need to produce for their Social Change Blackboards. 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 finished reading a book titled ‘Iqbal’ by Francesco D’Adamo, which is a biography of child labor activist, Iqbal Masih, from Pakistan. I began reading ‘Esperanza Rising’, a historical fiction book set in 1930s Mexico by Pam Munoz Ryan. 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 7: Volume and Measurement. Lessons and learning experiences completed:
Lesson 12: Solving real world volume problems
Students then reviewed the unit by viewing a variety of videos on volume from the Learnzillion website.
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
The students also completed the Unit 7: Volume and Measurement end-of-unit assessment. Our next and final math unit for the year is titled, Unit 8: 2D Figures. Here’s the unit overview:
Students draw two-dimensional shapes to analyze their attributes and use those attributes to classify them. Familiar figures, such as parallelograms, rhombuses, squares, trapezoids, etc., have all been defined in earlier grades and, in Grade 4, students have gained an understanding of shapes beyond the intuitive level. Grade 5 extends this understanding through an in-depth analysis of the properties and defining attributes of quadrilaterals. Grade 4’s work with the protractor is applied to construct various quadrilaterals. Using measurement tools illuminates the attributes used to define and recognize each quadrilateral. Students see, for example, that the same process they used to construct a parallelogram will also produce a rectangle when all angles are constructed to measure 90°. Students then analyze defining attributes and create a hierarchical classification of quadrilaterals.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Last week, the students continued our social studies unit titled, ‘Social Change’. The students worked on the various pieces of work they will need for their Social Change Blackboards.   

COUNSELING LESSONS
Stephanie Stone’s last counseling lesson for this school year was last Fri. 17 May. Stephanie will now work with groups of students who are leaving the school at the end of the year to help them finish the year well and give them strategies to help them cope with the transition to a new place.

UPCOMING MAY & JUNE 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Tues. 28 & Wed. 29 May: Max Wright will video G5 students’ favorite G5 memory statements in the MakerSpace, which will be screened at the Moving On Ceremony on Fri. 14 June.

Fri. 31 May: HS Graduation Ceremony at the Hilton Hotel from 4:00-6:30pm.

Tues. 4 June: 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. All parents of G5 students are invited to attend.

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

Fri. 7 June - day 1: Next Red Hats Free Dress Day - suggested donation per student - RM5.

Mon. 10 June, Tues. 11 June & Wed. 12 June - Moving On Ceremony practice sessions in the RBGT

Thurs. 13 June: ES Farewell Assemblies in the Melawati Theatre: PR-G2 from 8:30-9:30am, G3-5 from 11:00am-12:00pm
HS Social Change Makers’ Conference in the G5 classrooms from 1:30-2:30pm

Fri. 14 June: Last day of school!
G5 Moving On Ceremony in the Robert B Gaw Theatre from 8:30-9:30am followed by a reception in the Community Room (MPR5/6) from 9:30-10:15am. G5 students may leave with parents following the reception.
11:30 ES Early dismissal. All school ‘clap-out’, where teachers farewell students.
12:00 Buses depart.

Until next week,

Best regards,         

David