Year 5 Weekly Update
Thursday 21st May 2015
Week 33
Gentle reminder...School is closed tomorrow for CPD and Monday for Public Holiday.
Please check out the Immanuel Kindergarten website which now includes information about the big business unit and Year 5 donation: http://www.immanuelkindergarten.org/305391269
Another reminder from Susan Chung, Vice Principal:
Your child has received an invitation to our ‘Mother & Daughter’ and ‘Father & Son’ evening on Tuesday 2nd June.
The evening is designed to help your son/daughter understand the changes s/he will go through to become an adult.
It is a wonderful opportunity for parent and child to learn together in a relaxed, fun atmosphere.
Following on from that evening, our Year 5 students will be having a couple of in class sessions on ‘Living and Growing’. In these sessions they will be shown some educational videos which cover the themes of: Changes, How babies are made and How babies are born followed by class discussions.
Please contact me at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you would like to borrow the DVD to view at home beforehand.
Golden book
5A - John Chan
5D - Jeanie Yip
5B - Vivian To & Emily Leung
UOI - How the World Works
Transdisciplinary Theme: How the World Works
Central Idea: Energy exits in different forms and is generated and used in different ways.
Lines of Inquiry:
Transformation and transference of energy
Renewable and non-renewable energy
- The ways in which we conserve energy
Concepts: Function and Connection
The children have finished off the unit this week by presenting their animations to their peers to show their understanding of the central idea.
They also completed their explanation writing which was based on our homework question from last week.
Maths
The children have begun this strand unit to determine their understanding and prior knowledge. This weeks homework is linked to our strand unit.
Number: Pattern & Function
This week the children got into their new number groups and began investigating and representing patterns using words, symbols, numbers, tables and graphs.
Homework this week
This week's homework:
For maths homework this week we would like the children to work on probability by using experimental data to assess probability values as a fraction. They will need a paper/plastic cup as well as the recording sheet we have provided.
Please find the recording sheet link below for anyone who needs an extra copy:
Dates for your diary
Other important dates:
Friday 22nd May - CPD day - School Closed
Monday 25th May - Public holiday (no school)
Tuesday 26th May - PTA Quiz
Tuesday 2nd June - Mother/Daughter & Father/Son evening
Wednesday 3rd June - Year 5 swimming begins