Today we had a presentation at assembly about box of hope. More details will be coming soon but ask the grade 5 students what it means.
Well done to the bake sale community for their very first bake sale today. All of their baked goods were sold and the group will let us know how much they raised. Stay tuned for the next bake sale. Great job everyone who was involved in the community and those who donated cakes!
Today we had a presentation at assembly about box of hope. More details will be coming soon but ask the grade 5 students what it means. Well done to the grade 5 students who performed at our assembly this morning.
This week sees the start of some grade 5 communities. On Monday the comic club met to develop their first issue, today the magic club taught each other new tricks and tomorrow is the first bake sale of the year, mmmmmm :-). Well done to all of the groups for following through on their action and taking an idea and making it reality.
Tomorrow is casual dress day! All money collected will go towards Kanzi-Kibera organisation who run a school in Nairobi Kenya. Today we took a Multiple Intelligence test. This is a test that tries to let us know where we are with different Multiple Intelligences. You can see the results on all the student blogs. We then looked at different type of activities and things people might do, trying to group them into similar areas. We will continue this tomorrow.
Today we started our reading groups. There are five groups all named after some of my favourite science fiction authors. The reading groups will be meeting on the following days:
Monday 15 minutes Tuesday 30 minutes Friday 15 minutes Each week the students will be setting themselves a reading target between each reading meeting. At the start of the reading group meeting they will all discuss what has just happened in the book. We also use stop and think prompts such as; 'I think', 'I wonder', 'I understand', 'I bet', 'This reminds me of….', and many more. For each book we will be creating a book review in a format that the students can choose themselves, guided by a book review rubric. We will also be undertaking reading activities as we progress through our books. Today we discussed group guidelines that we support us with our reading. These will be published to the blogs soon. Happy Reading!!! Welcome back from the holiday, I hope everybody is refreshed and ready for our new unit.
New UOI The second of this years Units of Inquiry is under the Transdisciplinary Theme Who We Are, "Understanding how we think and learn helps us to fulfill our needs as learners." Today students were given a copy of the unit words all mixed up and had to try and create their own Central Idea. There were some great conversations about words such as fulfill, understanding and needs, with some of the groups getting quite close. There will be more details about this unit very soon. Spellings Tonights spellings are: learning multiple intelligence spatial interpersonal Holiday Blogs Well done to many of the students who wrote about their holidays on their blogs. If you haven't had a chance to read any please drop by and leave a comment. For the next few weeks Mr. Fleming has changed the music groupings. Students will be going to music on the following day only.
On Tuesdays: Owen Walden Harris Eric Yu Tommy Leo Marrisa Sosa Cooper Newton Sydney Rosensweig Julia Hipp Eytan Oron Gustav Nyborg Andrea Macho Lana Clulow Roey Yoskovitz Lucia Stockdale Julian Scantlebury Tanvi Iyer Dominic Freear On Wednesday: Kaiya Bhatia Emily Duncan Vivian Gu Helena Hatrick David Herz Miles Nulf Annie McGuire Urs Rethfeldt Thaddeus Summers Vibhuti Yonjan Thomas Bernard Ethan Eastwood Sofia Daley Sevilla Roberto Tommasi Carla Hespe Jameson Mclennon Rio Morrison Oliver Pealing Gwenyth Slaughter Imogen Walden-Harris Jocelyn Tamura We have now activated the student blogging accounts after creating our blogging guidelines. To help students think about their online presence and what this actually means I will be sharing a series of videos with them. The first is posted below. Blogging Guidelines Be truthful Be principled Be respectful Backup opinions with facts Be aware of your audience Don't share personal information Be responsible for your own work Be aware of copyright and plagiarization Present yourself in the best possible way Don't insult others, use appropriate words You can disagree but don't be disagreeable Only press publish when your blog is acceptable Follow writing conventions and sentence structure Treat other people the same way you want to be treated Don't write information about other people without their consent Only put things on the internet that you are happy for everyone to see Today Grade 5 students presented their communities to the elementary school. There was much interest in all of the different communities. Well done to all of the students for great communication skills.
During our parent teacher conferences we spoke about choosing the appropriate reading books for different levels. I showed some resources that will help to make this easier for you. These are available on the reading page which you can access through the links above. We will also be embedding the scholastic link into students e-portfolios to help you access it easier. Happy reading!
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