Grade 5 Class Blog

An incredibly short week this week and the main topic of dicussion is “Are these sturdy shoes?!!”. Yes., it’s residential from Wednesday to Friday and the teachers are just as excited as the children (and the parents?!)

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If you find you are confused by the packing list in any way please help develop your child’s responsibility and independence by encouraging them to speak to their homeroom teacher. Of course, we are just an email away if you are really unsure (PS a good pair of trainers counts as sturdy shoes).

Please help us foster a balanced approach during the residential by ensuring no secret electronics make it into bags and please remember that ALL food including snacks will be provided so your child doesn’t need to bring a suitcase full of candy!

It will be a wonderful trip and a great blend of challenge and risk taking – for the students going, and the parents being left behind. SEA will be communicating daily with all parents with updates, photos and videos and we hope you don’t miss your children too much!

A wonderful display of house spirit today at the Grade 5 Steal the Bacon and Benchball competitions. The results were close and it all went right down to the wire, leaving a nail biting prospect for the Track and Field events on the field on Wednesday 10-11.20am. Don’t forget you are welcome to come and support your child and cheer on all the competitors. See you there (with your House T-shirt, sunscreen, hat and water bottle!)

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Of course all the students are beavering away at their PYPX inquiries. Groups are beginning to move forward with their Lines of Inquiry and have identified a range of research questions to engage themselves on. Please remember that all inquiries move forward at different paces and your child’s group will also have ups and downs in the process. At times they might feel like their are being challenged (or even failing) but every moment of this process is a learning opportunity. Don’t hesitate to email your child’s homeroom teacher if you are unsure or want some advice how to support your child at home.

It has been great to see you all at the 3 way conferences. It’s such an important part of the year and the perfect chance for a discussion on the nature of responsibility and to see how the students, with the support of teachers and parents, are becoming increasingly responsible for their ongoing development.

Don’t forget that this is a short week – the school is closed on Thursday (while all the teachers can take part in some exciting Professional Development opportunities), and Friday is a holiday too! Have a great long weekend. Because it’s such a short week we aren’t issuing our usual homework and your child should instead be taking this opportunity to focus on their individual exhibition tasks and deadlines.

Have a great week!

Great to be back in school and to see the air quality has improved. It was also nice to see how committed the students were to their home learning activities, thank you all for your support with that.

It was obviously a short week last week and a shame that the groups didn’t have longer to speak and plan together before the enforced school closure. Of course, the students have been in their groups today and will continue to Tune In to their inquiries throughout the week. With teacher support they will begin to formulate Lines of Inquiry and make plans. Remember that all groups and all individuals will move at different paces so don’t worry if your child’s group gets off to a slow start!

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We look forward to seeing you all in school this week for 3 way conferences. It’s a great chance to see how your child has ownership of their learning and a wonderful opportunity to further develop the feedback loop between students, teachers and parents that really supports their progression.

Have a great week!

Due to the current air quality in Bangkok, the Ministry of Education has instructed schools to close for the rest of the week. KIS will be closed on Thursday 31 Jan and Friday 1 Feb. The Bugs ‘n Butterflies picnic on Saturday Feb 2 will be postponed to a later date.

Please visit the Grade 5 Home Learning page from 8am on January 31st for activities that can be completed at home. Your child’s homeroom teacher will be available by email during school hours for any queries you or your child might have and will be offering online support and feedback.

We hope to see you all in school again soon.

We will keep it brief today at there is so much more to come soon. First of all, the trip to the UN was amazing, such an inspiring and thought provoking opportunity!

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It was so much fun at the UN that we stayed longer than planned and had to make some last minute lunch arrangements in the PYP atrium. It was great to see Mai and Finna take opportunistic action to recycle our plastic lunch boxes when we returned and they were joined by many helpful hands!  Next step is for them to work out what to do with them… Action is an important part of the exhibition and can take many forms – from carefully planned large scale initiatives to spur of the moment things. Even smiling at someone, giving them a compliment, or asking a thought provoking question can make a huge difference. Have you taken action today?!

Today Grade 5 were busy identifying their exhibition passions and justifying their choices. This week students will get into their groups and start the first steps of this exciting journey! Lots of learning to come.

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A quick reminder that during the exhibition all specialist lessons will continue as normal, with PE and swimming on their normal days unless otherwise advised.

Have a great week!

First, a quick reminder to read Friday’s post for more information about Personal Devices and the upcoming exhibition.

As we continue to tune in to the theme Sharing the planet students are developing their understanding of the UN SDGs and beginning to make connections to the theme, inquiry cycle and the PYP Approaches To Learning to help them make a balanced decision about what inquiry to undertake over the coming weeks.

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Across the grade we are building our conceptual understandings within how fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships. In Language Arts we are developing our Oral, Visual and written language while sharing and developing our understandings of the UN SDGs.

We are also looking forward to our trip to the UN on Thursday! Have a great week!

Dear parents,

It was great to see so many of you at our meeting today. As promised, here are the slides that were shared. Please feel free to contact your child’s homeroom teacher if you have any questions.

KIS exhibition for Parents 2019

First of all, a reminder that on Friday 18th January at 8am you are all invited to the Coffee Morning in the AP room. The agenda will include the following, and we will post all pertinent information on the blog for those who cannot attend.

• How to support your child during the Exhibition unit of inquiry
• The Residential trip updates
• Bringing in a personal device to support learning during the Exhibition (hosted by Dr Puk)

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As you can see, in Maths we have been using various manipulatives such as  Numicon and Lego to explore how fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships. When building understandings of Mathematical concepts it is very useful to explore different mediums and approach the problems from different points of view. Please encourage your child to use drawings and manipulatives (they can get really creative with what they use) at home to develop their understandings them while they are doing homework.

In writing we are applying our skills of planning, organising and completing writing projects of increasing length and complexity to share our research into the UN Sustainable Goals. We have also invited students to pick an inspirational hero and share their story through the form of an article that will sustain the interest of the reader.

See you on Friday!

Dear all,

Saturday January 12th is UN Children’s Day, here is a link to some events in Bangkok. Have fun!

Dear all,

It’s great to be back, full of energy and enthusiasm and with so many exciting events on the horizon!

For the first two weeks of term we will be revisiting our whole school unit of Self development engages people in meaningful action. This will involve students (and teachers) reflecting against their personal goals that they chose at the start of the year. Have we made progress? Have we made a difference? Have we hit a brick wall? Is this something that could inspire my exhibition?

Yes, you guessed it, exhibition is not far away! We will be kicking off the unit on January 21st and we’d like to cordially invite you to a Coffee Morning on Friday January 18th at 8am in the Primary AP room. On the agenda will be:

• How to support your child during the Exhibition unit of inquiry
• The Residential trip updates
• Bringing in a personal device to support learning during the Exhibition (hosted by Dr Puk)

In Maths over the coming weeks we will be investigating how fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships. It’s always great to see learning extended at home and fractions give a great opportunity to, amongst other things, eat pizza and do some cake baking! Percentages is a great way to explore the UN Sustainable Development goals such as with the mind boggling statistic that 11% of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty.

See you on the 18th!