Weekly Newsletter April 22 - 26

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.

Weekly Newsletter April 15-19

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5



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 performance 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

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 Child’s Rights Activist.

Have a great week!

Ms B

Summer Activities

Dear Parents and Students,

As you may know already Summer Activities is happening at Ampang Hilir Campus this year.
The >>website<< was launched on Monday.
There are lots of fun and interesting activities to do. A bonus is that they will get to familiarise themselves in the MS/HS area during the 2 weeks as they will be grouped as MS/HS students. Totally optional but thought you might want to consider it. More information can be found on the Summer Activities website.

Ms B

Weekly Newsletter April 8-12

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5

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.

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.  

Newsletter April 1st - 5th

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5

Date April 1 - 5

Dear Parents,

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy: Students begin to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights through historical fiction, biography and autobiography texts. We will focus on Informational text throughout this unit.  Students will revisit informational and opinion writing in this unit.

Math: The students will begin the unit titled Order of Operations. We have been practicing this skill using daily warm ups, so they are familiar with these skills. Students will 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: We are beginning our unit on Social Change. This will conclude with the famous “Night of the Notables” on Thursday 9 May.

This week we will:

• Start a historical fiction read aloud
• Begin reading historical fiction and social issue picture books
• Tune in to ‘Social Change’ learning about the ‘Human Rights’ UDHR and the Global Goals
• Review the presenters from our ‘Social Change Makers Conference’ in semester 1

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

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)

• First week of April - Inclusion week-April 1 is a day 6
• April 1-5, 2019,  Inclusive Schools Week. #kaleidoscopeoffriends. The ISKL Community Schoolwide will celebrate the progress that we have made in providing a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse student population. The week will also provide an important opportunity for educators, students and parents to discuss what else needs to be done in order to ensure that ISKL continues to successfully educate all children. Events will be planned to engage the students, teachers, and parents.

• April 1, 2019: Coffee Chat & Resource Fair. To kick off Inclusive Schools Week there will be a Coffee Chat and Resource Fair in the Community Room from 8:15 - 9:45 am.  This is a great opportunity for your parents to learn about the resources that the Student Resource Team (SRT) offers to support students in their learning and development at ISKL. In addition to learning about speech and language therapy, educational psychology, and counseling available at ISKL, parents will also have the opportunity to learn about additional supports that can be accessed outside of school to support their child and family.  Coffee and snacks will be provided. Please RSVP - Click Here.

• April 2, 2019, Autism Awareness Day is World Autism Awareness Day. #LightItUpBlue The ISKL ES community is encouraged to support the Autism Speaks Light it up Blue Campaign by wearing blue to increase understanding and acceptance of Autism.

• April 4-10:30-12:30-Social Change Makers Conference (part 2)
• April 5, 2019, Diversity Day As Inclusive Schools Week wraps up, ES students are encouraged to dress in clothes that highlight them as unique individuals. #kaleidoscopeoffriends

Highlight of the week:

• Students celebrated end of Fantasy Writing unit by sharing their stories with other Grade 5 students.
• It was great to meet and listen to Aisha sharing her story about Down Syndrome, and how she is growing and learning at ISKL.