G5 Weekly Newsletter

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5

Dates: April 22-26th         

Dear Parents, 

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy:

Students will continue to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights through picture books, historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies and research. Classes have been diving further into Informational text while focusing on one social issue and/or a Human Rights Issue. Ask your child which human rights issue his/her class is exploring. Classes have been building a thesis with a focus on a social issue including different social change makers. All of this is in preparation for creating our class presentations for Night of the Notables, May 7th.

Math:

This week we will begin our Volume and Measurement Unit. Students will estimate and measure shapes. Students will also explore liquid volume using water and make comparisons and conversions. Students will explore volume by building and counting unit cubes in order to understand volume. 

Unit of Study:

We will continue our Social Change unit by preparing for our ‘Night of the Notables’ presentation and continue writing/tweaking our scripts as a class. Students will begin to think about a Change Maker or Social Issue that they would like to explore for their Social Change Blackboard projects. The Night of the Notables presentations will be on May 7th at 5:00pm in the RBG Theatre. We will continue preparing for our Night of the Notables class items this week.

For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page.

The Summer Activities website is ready. If you’re going to be in town from 17-28 June, you can sign up your child/ren.

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)

Monday April 22-ES Earth Week begins with ‘Earth Hour’ from 8:00-9:00am.

Tuesday April 23-Blue + Green ES Earth Day Dress Up Day - no donation expected 

Tuesday April 23-ES Earth Day Assembly, Parents Welcome!, 8:45 AM PR-G2, 2:00 PM G3-G5, Melawati Theater 

Thursday, April 25-All G5 classes will practice our ‘Night of the Notables’ class items in the RBG Theatre from 10:30-2:00.

Friday, April 26-MAP Reading testing.

By Friday April 26-All G5 students need to bring to school a black or white-colored bottom (girls can bring leggings, skirt or long pants. Boys - long pants). Students’ clothes need to be labeled with your child’s name and class and brought in on a labeled clothes hanger.

Saturday. April 27-G5 & HS Drama Workshops from 8:00am-5:30pm in the RBG Theatre

8:00-9:30 am - 5JV

10:00-11:30 am - 5CC/KH

12:00-1:30 pm - 5CB

2:00-3:30 pm - 5DH

4:00-5:30 pm - 5KC

Monday, April 30-MAP Math testing

Monday, April 30-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)

Wednesday, May 1-Labor Day holiday - no school

Monday, May 6-G5 Night of the Notables Dress Rehearsal with G4 audience in the RBG Theatre from 1:45-2:40 pm. 

Tuesday May 7, from 5:00-6:00pm-Grade 5 ‘Night of the Notables’ presentation, RBG Theatre (students will not be attending ASA’s on this day)

Highlight from last week:

The April 19th Free Dress Day donations were forwarded to Dr. Hartini, one of our Social Change Makers, who is a Children’s Rights Activist.

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

G5 Weekly Newsletter

Date April 15-19

Dear Parents, 

Curriculum Information for this Week:
Literacy:
Students will continue to learn about social issues, human rights and activists through historical fiction, biographical and autobiographical texts. They are also focusing on informational texts in their Book Clubs throughout this unit. Students will also continue to review and practice informational and opinion writing in this unit. Readers at this level will be asking themselves about author bias, comparing varying opinions and learning how to summarize more complex ideas.This work all culminates in our 'Night of the Notables' Presentation on Tuesday May 7.

Math:
The students will continue the unit titled ‘Order of Operations’, practicing this skill using daily warm ups, math lessons and in their math review home learning sheet. Students will continue to evaluate how to use numerical expressions with parentheses, brackets and braces. They will explain how to use these symbols in order to identify, write and describe simple numerical expressions.

Unit of Study:
The students will continue our unit titled, ‘Social Change’. One of the highlights of the G5 calendar - the “Night of the Notables” presentation, will be held on Tuesday May 7, from 5:00-6:00 pm in the Robert B. Gaw Theatre. All parents of G5 students are invited to attend. G5 students took home a hard copy of a parent letter two weeks ago, which explained our plans for the Night of the Notables presentation and also our plans for our drama workshops with Tim Howe and his HS drama students on Saturday 27 April. This week the students will continue reading historical fiction read alouds and historical fiction and social issue picture books. They will also continue researching their class social change topic for the Night of the Notables presentation and begin creating a class script. Here is a list of the social change topics each G5 class has chosen:

5JV - Child Labor
5CB - Gender Equality
5DH - Plastic Pollution
5KC - Education for All
5CC/KH - Animal Rights

For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page.

The Summer Activities website is ready. If you’re going to be in town from 17-28 June, you can sign up your child/ren.

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)
Tues April 23, Blue + Green Earth Day Dress Up Day ES
Tues April 23, ES Earth Day Assembly, Parents Welcome!, 8:45 AM PR-G2, 2:00 PM G3-G5, Melawati Theater 
Apr 30, 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)
ES Dress Up Days: plan your days in advance click HERE for dates and details
Tuesday May 7 - 5PM  Grade 5 ‘Night of the Notables’ Presentation, RBG Theatre

Newsletter no. 31 Mon. 15 Apr. 2019

NEWSLETTER NO. 31
MON. 15 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. 15 Apr. - day 8:

Tues. 16 Apr. - day 1:

Wed. 17 Apr. - day 2:

Thurs. 18 Apr. - day 3:

Fri. 19 Apr. - day 4: Good Friday. School is in session. Red Hats’ Free Dress Day. Suggested donation for each student - RM5
G5 intro to RBG Theatre & Tech. All G5 classes will be scheduled to have some time in the theatre to experience the space, practice class items etc. in preparation for our drama workshops on Sat. 27 Apr.

Sat. 20 Apr: ISKL HS Earth Club’s Eco-market and Community Recycling Program in the Cell Phone Car Park from 9:00am-12:00pm. See item below for further details.

Mon. 22 Apr: ES Earth Week begins.

WORK SAMPLES SENT HOME
Last week, I asked your child to take home and share with you copies of 3 assessments:
1. Math Unit 5: Multiplying & dividing fraction end-of-unit assessment
2. Fantasy writing summative assessment
3. Fantasy reading summative assessment
If you haven’t seen them, please ask your child to locate them in their home learning pocket or backpack.

G5 DRAMA WORKSHOPS
Thanks to all parents and students for your support in returning the G5 Drama Workshop reply slips for Sat. 27 Apr. Nineteen out of 21 5DH students have signed up to attend our drama workshop with Tim Howe’s HS drama students from 2:00-3:00pm. Considering it’s on a weekend, I’m very happy with that number!

ISKL SUMMER PROGRAM
Dear ISKL Parents,
We are excited to announce the first year of ISKL Summer Activities at the new Ampang Hilir campus! Activities will run during the two weeks after school ends: June 17 to June 28, 2019 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. We have a lot of fun and exciting activities for students in the ES and shared activities for MS & HS students. For a list of activities and to sign up, please visit our Summer Activities page.
Can't wait to see your children there!
Summer Activities Coordinators - Cath Bae and Linnea Welker

SATURDAY 20 APRIL - ECO-MARKET
From the HS Earth Club:
What better way to spend your Saturday morning? Come to ISKL on Saturday April 20th, anytime between 9:00 am until 12:00 pm to check out our ECO MARKET, an event held by the High School Earth Club to foster a community of eco-mindedness. Enjoy live music, good food, eco-shopping, fresh produce. and INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS!
There will be:
- FRESH PRODUCE
- Kind Kones ICE CREAM
- Picha Project food
- Eat shoots and roots gardening products
- Speak skin care
- Second hand books
- Sewing crafts by refugees
- Zero waste products (the hive and frangipani)
- Sala vegan Mexican food
- ISKL clubs raising awareness and so much more :)
And of course, our monthly community recycling, along with:
- Glass recycling
- Tetra pack
- Clothing recycling, batteries, and electronics
- Second hand book collection
- All other usually recycled items

CLASS WORK LAST WEEK
Language Arts: Reading, writing, speaking & listening:
Last week, the students continued 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 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 began our next math unit titled, ‘Unit 6: Order of Operations’. Lessons completed:
Lesson 4: Money for Chores
Lesson 5: Hogwarts House Cup 1
Lesson 6: Hogwarts House Cup 2
Lesson 7: Hogwarts House Cup 3
Review of the unit
The students also worked on order of operations problems using the online platform ‘Studyladder’. Students can also work on the Studyladder website at home by clicking on www.studyladder.com
Early this coming week, the students will complete the end-of-unit written assessment. Our next math unit is titled, ‘Volume and Measurement’. Further details of the unit will be in next week’s newsletter.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Last week, the students continued our social studies unit titled, ‘Social Change’. As mentioned earlier, the students worked on our Night of the Notables presentation class item topic script on ‘Plastic Pollution’. On Friday afternoon, each group performed their item to the class audience and received feedback. This week, the groups will use that feedback to make their items even better. The students will also begin 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. 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 was absent and not able to conduct her usual counseling lesson on Fri. 12 Apr. We’ll try to reschedule the lesson some time this week.

UPCOMING APR. & MAY 2019 CLASS & SCHOOL EVENTS
Mon. 22 Apr: ES Earth Week begins.

Tues. 23 Apr: Blue + Green Earth Day Dress Up Day and ES Earth Day Assemblies: PR-G2 from 8:45-9:30am and G3-G5 from 2:00-2:45pm in the Melawati Theatre.

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

Sat. 27 Apr: G5 & HS Drama Workshops from 8:00am-5:30pm in the Melawati Theatre.

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.

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.

Until next week,

Best regards,         

David

G5 Weekly Newsletter

Date April 8-12

Dear Parents, 

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy:
Students will continue to learn about social issues, human rights and activists through historical fiction, biographical and autobiographical texts. They are also focusing on informational texts in their Book Clubs throughout this unit. Students will also continue to review and practice informational and opinion writing in this unit.

Math:
The students will continue the unit titled ‘Order of Operations’, practicing this skill using daily warm ups, math lessons and in their math review home learning sheet. Students will continue to evaluate how to use numerical expressions with parentheses, brackets and braces. They will explain how to use these symbols in order to identify, write and describe simple numerical expressions.

Unit of Study:
The students will continue our unit titled, ‘Social Change’. One of the highlights of the G5 calendar - the “Night of the Notables” presentation, will be held on Thursday 9 May, from 5:00-6:00pm in the Melawati Theatre. All parents of G5 students are invited to attend. G5 students took home a hard copy of a parent letter last Friday, which explained our plans for the Night of the Notables presentation and also our plans for our drama workshops with Tim Howe and his HS drama students on Saturday 27 April. We expect all G5 students and teachers to attend their class Saturday drama workshop, so please complete and have your child return the reply slip to their class teacher by this Friday 12 April, so we have a firm idea of student numbers for the workshops. This week the students will continue reading historical fiction read alouds and historical fiction and social issue picture books. They will also continue researching their class social change topic for the Night of the Notables presentation and begin creating a class script. Here is a list of the social change topics each G5 class has chosen:
5JV - Child labor
5CB - Gender equality
5DH - Plastic Pollution
5KC - Education for all
5CC/KH - Animal rights

For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page.

The Summer Activities website is ready. If you’re going to be in town from 17-28 June, you can sign up your child/ren.

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)

**Please return your child’s drama workshop attendance reply slip by this Friday 12 April, which is attached to the parent letter sent home last Friday with your child.

Highlights of the week:
Inclusive Schools Week was a great success!
It was great to meet and listen to our final four social change makers last Thursday morning at our G5 Social Change Makers’ Conference:
Dr. Hartini Zainudin - works for UNRWA (United Nations Relief Work Agency for Palestinian refugees and volunteers at Yayasan Chow Kit in KL (Street Kids of Chow Kit)

Arief Fauzy - works at the Selangor SPCA

Mareena Yahya Kerschot - volunteers at Tak Nak Straw - an organization dedicated to protecting the environment by reducing the use of plastic straws

Suji Dehart  - is our ES Librarian - advocate for minimizing waste in landfills and composting
**Ask your child what they learned about human rights, discrimination and social change makers last week.