PTA Newsletter Wk 48

PTA Update Week 48

Authors Chair #1 by Sander

Goosebumps; Horrorland

 DR. MANIAC VS ROBBY SCHARTS

by R.L. STINE

It all began when Robby made a comic on his laptop about him being attacked by a villain he made, then he realizes that Dr maniac is his brother Sam and another villain, the scarlet starlet, is his friend! And then; he pressed DELETE. Because they’re from his laptop. And well yeah. and that was a comic! Soon Robby meets Britney and Molly from revenge of the living dummy –and slappy! Also he meets 2 other girls from the scream of the haunted mask. This book is cool but it did remind me I freak out of this kind of book.

And I think that the book was nice but creepy I highly recommend it.

The series of Goosebumps horrorland is about every one has scary times and all go to horrorland…… read them all and you’ll know what’s what.

Homework week 48

Here is the homework for this week:
Due Wednesday

• Find one poem to bring in, it could  be your favorite one, one you just found or one that you wrote yourself. If you want to you can bring in more than one. Print it out, copy it, bring in the book and I'll photocopy it or send it to me.

Due Thursday

• Maths Practice Book pp. 79 & 80.
• Spelling sheet
• First draft of your Inquiry project. You need to show me your research papers, research notes and your rough draft of your report (this could be your report written out or your report in point form). Everything you show me should indicated that you are ready to start to write out your report properly

Due Friday

• Reading Journal

5D up-date

Hello parents and students,

We have had  some fast and furious weeks since coming back to school after the Autumn break. We have finished our POI (Programme of Inquiry) unit that looked at conflicts and how we can resolve them. Started a new POI unit which focus on migration, why people migrate, where do they go to and what happens when they get there. We visited Emigranternas Hus down by the river and found out why 1.4 million Swedes moved to the USA. We have had our swimming day, started and finished Persuasive writing as well as Report writing and had our first ‘authors chair’ (well done Sander).  On top of this we have started our new POI assignment.

Over the next few weeks we will be continuing this pace as we will be working on our POI assignments in class (and at home!) on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays so if you have a laptop/ipad and you are allowed/ you allow your child to bring it in then do so as our one good and one very old computer cannot help 22 students all at once! Note to parents: laptops will be locked in the safe when not in use. We will be starting our poetry writing unit this week which will conclude on the last day of school with a poetry recital, where parents will get to hear their children perform their own original poems while nibbling ginger cookies and sipping glögg.

Unlike the dull memories of poetry writing we have from previous years this time we will be jumping around, acting, singing, yelling, performing short poetic plays and generally having fun and  writing poems in the process.

If you have not looked lately at the school calendar we have an in-service day this Tuesday 29^th.

This year Lucia will be on Tuesday 13th December. This is a whole school event which involves all of ISGR going to Annedalskyrkan (click here for link to map). The concert starts at about 9.00 and lasts around 45 mins. Please make sure that all students are at school on time on this day as we will need to leave at 8.30 to walk down to the church. If you get stuck in traffic etc and you are driving, please go straight to the church. If you are student  taking public transport by yourself, please go to school and talk to someone in the office. And yes parents are welcome! 

I have asked the students to go home and talk to their parents it see if they will be attending the Winter Bazaar next weekend as we work out some type of schedule for year 5 next week. The schedule will be simple and as I informed the class, work around when people will be visiting the Bazaar. Next week I will find out who will be attending the Bazaar and out of those people who will be willing to help out. I will then sit down with Camilla and make a schedule. The PTA will be meeting the class on Thursday for a few minutes to give the students some final information.

On the last day of school both the year 5 classes will be putting on a poetry recital for the parents. The students will be reciting their own poems and the recital will take up almost all of the short last day. We will start at around 8.50 and continue for about an hour and have pepparkakor (ginger bread cookies) and glögg for snacks. This has always been a great morning and a great way for students to show off some of their talents. I understand everyone is very busy, but if you can make it please do, even if it’s for 20min.

Homework Week 47

We have a large amount of work to get through this week so make sure you get a bit done each night!
Due Thursday

• Maths practice book p.77 & 78
• Spelling sheet

Due Friday

• Reading Journal
• Good copy of your report

Get started on your POI assignment, start researching, highlighting and taking notes. You have to bring in your first draft of your assignment next Thursday, so start now!!

Sander is doing Authors chair this week

Winter Bazaar 4th Dec

Dear parents,

 

The students in both Grade 5 classes expressed an interest to participate in the ISGR Winter Bazaar on Sunday 4th December 2011, and decided, democratically, to organize and run some activities for it. These activities will include a Winter Themed Treasure Map; the prize will be a Children’s Christmas Hamper Basket. The students also wanted to do the following two games: Name the Teddy and Guess the number of Lollies in the jar.  Profits raised by the children from this venture will be used by the Grade 5 classes to organize a fun activity for the children later in the school year.
Angela Graham and Anjna Patel have kindly offered to help create the Winter Themed Treasure Map. The children will be able to add their personal touches at the end. We are asking you for a suggested donation of 20 kronor from each of the Grade 5 children to put towards these prizes. We would be grateful if you are able to send the money in by the end of this week (25th November) to give the Angela and Anjna time to purchase the items for the basket.

Thank you for your support,
Camilla and Christian

Assessment task

Good copy of the report is due on 15th Dec.The Migration of People Throughout the World Has Occurred Continually Over Time[1]

PTA Newsletter Week 47

PTA Update Week 47

Maths Practice Test Answers

Here are the answers to the practice test we did today
(p.39)

• $0.80
• $2.15
• $1.80
• $4.25
• $3.55

(p.40)

• 5.3 : 53
• 0.817 : 8.17 : 81.7
• n=0.007
• n=5.03
• 4 : 40 : 400
• 1.6 : 16 : 160
• 7.832 : 78.32 : 783.2

(p.41)

• n=0.12
• n=0.4
• n=0.2
• n=0.6

(p.42)

• b
• c
• a
• b

(p.43)

• 2.7981
• 0.3276
• 0.00305
• 0.0004

(p.47)

• 454 people
• 102 lunches

(p.48)

• 1075.8
• 563.14
• 2158
• 608.5
• 859.29

(p.50)

• 70
• 5
• 600
• n=8
• n=80
• n=50
• n=20

(p.51) estimates should be near the below numbers 

• 9
• 6
• 6
• 3

(p.56)

• 25
• 2.5
• 0.25
• 280
• 28
• 2.8
• 250
• 25
• 2.5

(p.57)

• 0.6
• 0.56
• 0.83

To immigrate or to emigrate, that is the question

What would Hamlet be doing if he was about to leave Denmark to move to Sweden?

From: www.dictionary.com

em·i·grate

 

verb (used without object), -grat·ed, -grat·ing.

to leave one country or region to settle in another; 

migrate: toemigrate from Ireland to Australia.

im·mi·grate

  verb, -grat·ed, -grat·ing.

verb (used without object)

1.

to come to a country of which one is not a native, usuallyfor permanent residence.

homework Wk46

Due Thursday

• Spelling sheet
• Your persuasive writing task - Make a brochure for Göteborg needs to be finished by Thursday break time
• We have a Maths test on multiplying and dividing decimals on Thursday. From your Maths Practice Book study and look over all lesson 7 for multiplication and lessons 8 & 9 for division.

Due Friday

• Reading Journal
• Interview of a family member about emigration/immigration due for Friday POI. I will go over this home work on Tuesday.  

PTA Newsletter week 46

PTA Update Week 46

PTA newsletter Week 45

sorry for the delay. I had some trouble uploading it last week. Pta Update Wk45

Swimming Day

Don't forget the school swimming day is this week on Wednesday (16-11-11), you will need to make sure that you do the following:-

• Pay 25:-
• Bring your tram card
• Bring a towel and swimming costume
• A large lunch and large bottle of water

We will be taking the bus outside the school at 10.30 and we will be back just before 14.30