1. W E E K LY U P D A T E
JUNE 4 2010
GRAD E 5 A @ C D N I S
The Human Body, Literature Circles Wrap-up and
Solving Problems with Area and Decimals
Dear Parents, beginning to wind down. Rob Stewart, creator and
Students will no longer be director of Sharkwater
Our week started with the
required to complete premiered his movie in the
students hearing the candidate
reading logs or write LLAC to an audience of CDNIS
speeches for the Lower School
summaries. This shouldn’t students. It was amazing
Student Council. It was a
be interpreted as students movie that lead to some
stressful time for all those risk
not feeling the need to read excellent discussions on the
takers to get on stage in front of
each evening. By this age, theme of our environmental
hundreds of their peers and
students should be reading responsibilities. If you have a
deliver a persuasive speech.
independently at least moment, I strongly
Congratulations to the sole 5A
30-40 minutes per evening recommend you explore the
candidate, Patricia, who earned a
and I hope this good habit site above as well as discuss
place on the Council.
can continue throughout the the movie with your child.
Another very special event this
summer break. Beach Day will be on June
week was the Grade 6 PYP
In Math, students are 14. Please, if you have not
Exhibition. Please refer to the
wrapping up their a l r e a d y, c o n t r i b u t e s o m e
Flash for details. From the Grade
exploration of area and goodies through our Google
5 perspective, the students had
perimeter (which have Doc, which has been sent to
an excellent op portunity to
included decimals). We’ve you three times already.
experience the culminating
completed our Literature
activity in which they too will
Circles and are involved
participate next year. As a PYP Congratulations to Glenn,
with some culminating
teacher, I was simply amazed Adrian, Ali, Irmina,
tasks. In our inquiry, we
with the knowledge, skills and Christian and Henry for
have identified the various
understanding that the Grade 6 receiving the 5A@CDNIS
parts of the body systems
students demonstrated. I really awards this week.
and have discussed puberty.
cannot wait to see our Grade 5s
Next week we’ll complete donaldmacpherson@cdnis.edu.hk
up there, demonstrating as much
the unit with a test! We http://
next school year. You can watch
don’t often see tests as a djmacpherson.edublogs.org/
some videos of the Exhibition in
summative, but we’ve been
action at the following site:
discussing and working on
http://www.justin.tv/samuelko/
study skills. Students will
videos
reflect on how they
Engagements with the
approached/prepared for
curriculum this school year are the test.
Dates to Remember
June 11: Grade 5 Assembly
June 14: Beach Day (please contribute some goodies on our Google Doc)
June 15: Last day of school for students