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.
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