Grade
5 Newsletter
Unit Four: Sharing the Planet
Unit of Inquiry Grade 5’s trip to Language This week’s writing investigations have the Danish Resistance Museum before the holiday was a great success. Students were able to learn about some of the tactics and see first hand some of the equipment used by the Danish Resistance fighters during WWII. Students were especially interested to hear how young Danes, some as young as 14, took an active and important part in the Resistance. The trip to the museum provided us an opportunity to access our host country’s history as an avenue to investigate the causes of consequences of conflict. Reading the text Darkness over Denmark has also been of great interest to the students as they are able to connect with its familiar names and locations.
focused on the craft of constructing well-organized and well-developed paragraphs. We reviewed the requirements of paragraph writing: topic sentence, supporting details and a concluding sentence. We then practiced planning, drafting and revising concise nonfiction paragraphs. We will continue to practice this important skill over thenext few weeks. Beginner The students have been celebrating Fastelavn and its traditions, including baking and eating Fastelavn buns and singing songs. They have also inquired into the reasons for these customs. The barrel bashing will be the climax of the week with the crowning of a Cat Queen and a Cat King.
February 24, 2012
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Intermediate This week we follow Danish tradition by celebrating Fastelavn. The assembly on Friday will be an introduction to the different elements and games of the festival. Following the classes’ learning about WW2 we will share reading a comic book describing the life of families during this period of war in Europe.
Mathematics Being able to make Advanced After missing a week of Danish to tests and sensible direct and indirect conferences, we will dig into Chr. 4th and his time. We estimates of quantities and being will also celebrate the Danish Fastelavn, and the alert to the reasonableness of students will be baking Fastelavnsboller (buns) and measurements are critical barrel bashing. measurement skills. This week’s learning opportunities with volume, capacity and mass provided students the chance to establish and practice using ”benchmarks” for common weights and measures, as well as to experiment. We will continue to investigate rs grade concepts of measurement fifth- etre? 8! y n a m m throughout the remainder of How in a cubic it f n a c this unit.
PE During our hockey unit we have been looking at Art In response to Picasso’s skills we can transfer from one sport to another, specifically skills like dribbling the ball, moving to open space to pass or shoot and improving ball control.
“Guernica” PYP 5 have been creating art that reflects the tragedies of war. They have also been designing t-shirt logo’s for Team Peru.
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