We had such a fantastic time this Literacy Week. From reading a class book to a fantastic author visit to a successful book swap. Do you like our costumes?
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Sara and Niharika from 5.1 led a fantastic parent's meeting for this year's Exhibition. Thank you girls for sharing our journey with our ISS families.
After collaborating on a Central Idea for our Exhibition and tuning in to our passions, we have finalised our groups. We have been working this week on brainstorming with our groups, connecting ideas of what issues are in the world that relate to our topic. From there, we developed questions that relate to our topic. We sorted those questions and decided if they were RELEVANT, INTERESTING, and ACCESSIBLE. It has been very challenging, but rewarding work as we narrow down the focus on our topics.
We were so lucky to have Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, visit us at ISS. Grade 5 thought of some exciting questions that we could ask Jeff and many of us got to meet him in person! What an exciting day!
Thank you to everyone who participated in International Day! Grade 5.2 did an amazing job performing and an even better job helping the young kindergarten class with their meals. Excellent day!
Grade 5 thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the Science Centre. First we visited the kinetic garden and explored different types of energy like sound, potential gravitational, and kinetic. After expending a lot of energy ourselves we had a snack and proceeded to go upstairs to the science lab. We had a chance to do a few experiments using gravitational potential and kinetic energy. After that we had a go at making our own marble runs that used gravitational and potential energy. Some of us even used sound energy! Have a look at the videos and enjoy!
For our summative assessment we tuned in to a mass migration that was currently happening in the world. To do this we looked through current news articles and to websites such as the International Organisation for Migration https://www.iom.int/world-migration. We then found out about these migrations, who were migrating, why they were migrating, and the impact of the migration on the people and of the people/government/attitudes of the new country. Our journeys took us around the world from Mexico to Myanmar, Syria to Russia and so on... We have done a great deal of research and worked on our presentation skills to show our understanding. Building on our formative assessments we all made progress and improvements in our communication skills. Dear Parents of 5.2,
International Day is on the 6th of October and it is quickly approaching! We are excited to share our cultures and celebrate together on that day. We would love to have as much parent involvement as possible and besides sharing the day with your children, here are some ways you can participate: Country Display: We will be making the Elementary School hallway's display boards available to parents to decorate. Each board will be assigned a country and you are welcome to come by and decorate during the week of 2nd October - 5th October. If you are interested, please let me know by email which country you are representing and I can try to connect you to other parents from that country. Food: One of the highlights of International Day is the food! Please feel free to share your national dish with us that day. You can bring it in the morning for it to be kept in a safe place while you participate in the fun. Later, each country will have a table where you can place your food and we can celebrate the wonderful cuisines of the world together. We are all looking forward to International Day, and hope you can join us for a morning of fun! Thank you! Ms. Jasinska After tuning into migration stories worldwide, we each chose a current migration that interested us. Our inquiries ranged from the current refugee crisis in Europe, migrations from Mexico and Central America to the United States, and brain drain in New Zealand. We gathered information about the causes of migration and the changes the migrants have gone through from reputable sources and sorted out the information to make conclusions. Then, as good communicators, we presented our information on Google Slides to our class. As good global citizens we have empathy towards the men, women, and children who have been forced to migrate.
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Michelle JasinskaI'm very excited to be the classroom teacher for 5.2! I hope you enjoy the window into our world as we complete our PYP journey in grade 5. Archive:
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