Week of November 6

Dear Parents –

We had such an amazing week last week with Mini Academies, Halloween, science experiments, and Deepavali!  Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to lead a Mini Academy.  The next one is scheduled for November 23.  Please see our Photos page for pictures from the events last week.

Here’s a peak at our week ahead:

Monday, Nov. 6 (Day 1) – Art and World Language

Tuesday, Nov. 7 (Day 2) – Music and PE

Wednesday, Nov. 8 (Day 3) – World Language

Thursday, Nov. 9 (Day 4) – Art and PE (Swimming)

Friday, Nov. 10 (Day 5) – Library and World Language

International Fest Flag Parade

This is a wonderful event to celebrate our diversity as a community.  The flag parade begins at 8:15, but parents are advised to be at school earlier.  Students are encouraged to come to school dressed in their home country’s traditional clothes or colors.  Please refer to Annie Gillis’ email for more information about the event.

Language Arts

Alongside fluency that we practiced last week, students paid attention to the dialogue tags and adjusted their tone to the mood of the character.  Students require comprehension skills in order to be able to adjust their tone appropriately. Another aspect of fluency that is important to practice is reading the text with a just right pace.

Procedural writing continues with their science experiment this week. Students learned that writing a question and a hypothesis is the first step to their lab report. Important elements to include in their procedural writing would be the transition words such as first, next, later, finally and next to these words, they need to the action (verb) that they do such as put, pour, take etc.

Math

This week students will continue their work on problem solving.  We’ll finish looking at the different structures of addition problem and move into subtraction story problems.  Throughout our work, students will have opportunities to practice solving and writing story problems with partners and independently.  We’ll focus on how to explain our thinking with base-10 models, counting up or counting back on number lines, or through decomposing numbers. 

Science

Students tried different ways to change matter from solid to liquid this week. Some ways that the students explored with were putting ice under a hair dryer, putting it in the oven, under the sun, and heating it up in the microwave. They timed how long it took to melt the ice and compared how long it took with the variety of ways. Students followed the scientific process while doing this experiment.  We’ll be back in the science lab this week to conduct our second investigation. Our focus this week will be on evaporation. 

Dinner Questions

What do you like the most about living in Malaysia?

If you could visit any place/country, where would you go?  Why?

What are some things you are curious about?