1. MAY 28 2010
W E E K LY U P D A T E
GRAD E 5 A @ C D N I S
Measurement, Literature Circles
and Who We Are
Dear Parents, students have been looking questions, please let me know
at the different body and I can help.
I think it is safe to say we are
systems, such as the
in the final stretch of our 2009-10 A reminder that school for
muscular and skeletal
school year. With only a few students will be finished on
systems. They’ll continue
weeks left of school, we are June 15. This was noted to
with the digestive, nervous
finishing off our Math, which parents at the end of the first
and reproductive systems
includes measurement combined s e m e s t e r. O n J u n e 1 5 ,
next week. We’ll also be
with decimals. Students have Portfolios and Progress
discussing changes in our
been discovering ways to find Reports will be sent home. I
body as we reach
area and perimeter of spaces, intend to start sending home
adolescence. A letter to you
and, while doing so, are receiving student work that has not bee
explaining our objectives
mini-lessons on how to use included in the portfolio
will be sent to you as a part
decimals appropriately. starting next week.
of the weekly
Our Literacy for the remaining communication (via email).
of the school year will stay
Students have completed
“reading-based” as I feel the
their digital stories, which We have missed a few
students have done a tremendous
were transformed from their weeks due to Cheung Chau
amount of (great) writing this
pieces of historical fiction. I camp and the China Trip.
y e a r. W e h a v e j u s t a b o u t
hope to have these digital There will be more awards
completed one round of
stories uploaded onto the than normal this week and
Literature Circles on books of the
blog by the end of the next.
students’ own choosing. Students
weekend (fingers crossed!).
will work in groups to present Congratulations to Kelly
their books while at the same An email about our planned Wing, Andrew Choi,
time, self-select another book for Beach Day, to be held on Dorothy Leung, Ena Cheng
a second (and final) round of June 14, was sent to you and Justin To for receiving
Literature Circles. earlier in the week. As part the 5A@CDNIS awards this
of that email, you received week.
Our final unit of inquiry, Who
a Google Docs link should donaldmacpherson@cdnis.edu.hk
We Are, will involve students
you wish to contribute food,
investigating the central idea: http://
snacks, cutlery, drinks, etc.
“Throughout life, our bodies go djmacpherson.edublogs.org/
It is a very easy process but
through a series of changes that
should you have any
make us who we are.” So far,
Dates to Remember
June 4: Grade 5 Assembly
June 14: Beach Day
June 15: Last day of school for students