Weekly Update Feb 18 - 22

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5

Dates: February 18-22              

Dear Parents,

We start this week on Day 6.

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy: Grade 5 students continue to work on their fantasy stories. This week we focus on making our stories believable by adding details to our settings, internal and external character traits and making sure to show not tell throughout our stories. Fantasy book clubs continue as students analyze their books through the focus on metaphors, symbolism and thinking about how fantasy helps us understand the real world.

Math: The students will conclude Unit 4: Place Value and Decimal Operations. Students have explored multiplying and dividing decimals using a variety of manipulatives to show their thinking. The assessment will be giving this week.

(See last week’s newsletter and the MATH tab on the blog for helpful video links.)

Unit of Study: Students will continue their second science unit: Modeling Matter: The Chemistry of Food from the Amplify Science program. During the unit, the students are involved in a simulation, where they take on the role of food scientists working in a lab for a large food-production company: Good Food Production Inc. The students will continue to work in their classrooms and conduct hands-on experiments in the science labs, investigating the different properties of matter. Chapter 2 of this unit focuses on why some mixtures have sediments and others do not.

These lessons include:

• 2.1 Investigating Flavor Ingredients
• 2.2 Investigating Dissolving
• 2.3 Reading about Dissolving
• 2.4 Models of Solubility
• 2.5 Making Sense of Solubility

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

Parents, please also check out the SERVICE CHANNEL, which is a forum for the ISKL community to share ideas and information about how we can contribute to our community and planet.

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)

• WIDA testing for G5 EAL students (letters have gone home)
• Monday, February 18-Richard Sobol, traveling photographer and photojournalist will talk about informational writing
• Wednesday, February 20- Faculty Appreciation Lunch
• Thursday, February 21-Grand Opening Ceremony-many activities are planned throughout the day (including photo booths, popsicles at lunch, and music and dance performance at Zurich field)
• Friday, February 22: ES CNY Cultural Day and ES CNY Dress Up Day as well as the Lion Dance in the ES Gym

Highlight from last week:

On Thursday, February 14th at the Red Hats Valentine’s Free Dress Day, we raised over RM2000. This will be presented to Siti Kasim, one of our Social Change Makers. She and her team of lawyers advocate for the rights of Malaysia’s indigenous people - the Orang Asli.

GLC Update

Quick Tip #1:  ES CNY Cultural Day and ES CNY Lion Dance Parents Welcome!, ES Gym, 10:50-11:20, Fri Feb 22, click HERE for info and HERE for details and CNY dress ideas. 

Quick Tip # 2:  We still need dishes for our Annual PTA (all campus) Faculty Appreciation Lunch, Wed Feb 20, you can send your dishes by bus or drop off in person. For sign up and details click HERE ...as of publication we need 10 more side dishes, 7 salads, 10 mains. Thank you ALL who have signed up to date! 

Quick Tip # 3: Quiz Night was, once again, a fantastic evening! Special thanks to Carol Octoman and her team for making it a success! Click HERE for photos by ISKL Parent Photographer Agung Fauzi. 

This 

Week:

• Thur Feb 21: ISKL Grand Opening Ceremony, Click HERE for RSVP
• Fri. Feb 22: ES CNY Cultural Day and ES CNY Dress Up Day, click here for examples of dress for children and adults, Lion Dance: Parents Welcome see Quick Tip #1 above for details
• Want to know more ? Click HERE for the Panther News! 

Upcoming Event: 

• Wed Feb 20: 9:30-2:00 ALL SCHOOL Faculty Appreciation Lunch sign up for a dish click HERE
• Thur Feb 21: ISKL Grand Opening Ceremony, Click HERE for RSVP
• Fri. Feb 22: ES CNY Cultural Day and ES CNY Dress Up Day Fri Feb 22 click here for examples of dress for children and adults
• Fri. Feb 22: ES CNY Lion Dance Fri Feb 22, stay tuned for start time, ES Gym - Parents welcome - it will be a great morning! 
• Wed Feb 27, Wed March 13: Parenting workshop sessions with Jane Thompson.  Please click HERE for more information: click the blue Sign Up for access within link. 
• Thur Feb 28, ES Scholastic orders due, online ordering, no cash, credit card payment and delivered to school...see flyer in your child's backpack for details. click HERE to order online... 
• Wed March 13: ES Book Swap! Start setting your ES reading level books aside...details to follow soon
• Faisal Cup needs YOU! Click HERE for details 
• Have you joined the ISKL PTA Facebook page? An excellent way to hear about events, search ISKL PTA today and look for the photo of the Petronas Towers by ISKL Parent Agung Fauzi...