Homework week 23

Due Friday

• Good copy of play
• POI project for Science Fair

Study for Maths test on Tuesday 12th (changed from 7th June)

• remember to study your maths dictionary
• practice angles, 3D shapes, triangles, coordinate planes and circles. Use your dictionary to help you.
• Remember what we talked about on Monday. Part of the test will be: make a prism and pyramid 3D shape from a net, name, how many faces, how many edges, how many vertices? 

Lotta, our school nurse will be having two health talks with the girls this and next week. We are trying to book a time for the boys as well, but no time as has been set yet.

On Friday, we hope to see you at our Science Fair, between 10.40-12.30!

Next week we will go to Slottsskogen on Monday for a sports day. Students will need to bring a packed lunch with them and appropriate clothing for run around outside. If anyone wants to join us, please let me know. This is a full school event, which means all teachers and students are going to Slottsskogen this day.

On Thursday next week we will be canoeing all day. We'll leave school straight away and head out to Vättlefjälls kanotpool. There we'll get the canoes and life-wests and head out on the lake. It will be me, Camilla, Peter, Joel, John Stanich and Jim Thompson. Three of these teachers are PE teachers, and two are swimming instructors as well. We will be canoeing together, and we will not be out on open water. We will be in pretty small lakes with lots of little islands. If you want to have a look at the lakes and the surrounding, click here. There will be 3 students in each canoe. We will then head out to a nice island and stop for lunch. We will bring a grill and hot dogs and buns for everyone. Students only need to bring a snack and something to drink. Depending on the weather and how brave they are, they can bring swimming clothes.

A great day of Orienteering

taking it easy on the whale

Last Friday all of Year 5 had a day of orienteering in slottskogen. Everyone was put into mixed groups of four with some people having to use a mix of Swedish and English to communicate with their group. Each group had to find 10 spots on the map and take a photo of their whole group in front. We have requested photos from the students, so as soon as I get some photos I'll post them up.

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Science fair

Dear parents,
You are invited to our science fair on Friday 8th between 10.30 and 11.30

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL SONG

Hear the sound of school bell ring

Only meaning one important thing (Hey!)

SCHOOLZ OUT!

We’re all getting outta here today!

Hear us all singing straight in key

To our version of "Green Day’s Holiday"

  Guess what? (Hey!)

  We’re all having so much fun today!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

 This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On holiday

Can’t wait ‘till summer starts (Hey!)

 Then we’re free to do what we want (Hey!)

 And we can chill out every other day!

 I’m gonna miss ISGR

 And everyone who’s made us get this far (Hey!)

Friends, Teachers we will miss you all!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On holiday

(Random dancing during interval)

lyrics by Ananya and Jade

Language outside

Yesterday we spent the morning working outside in the sun. We had a great time sitting on the rocks, grass and even in the trees! After reading time (DEAR), we had some fun warm-up activites to get us ready for writing and performing some short plays.

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coming events and week 19 in review

At 2.30pm last Friday I sat down  and thought about how good it felt to have completed and gotten through most of the events and disruptions this Spring. It was nice to feel that the only things we had left was no school on the 17 & 18 of May,...our visit to  MYP 6 on the 24th of May,...Orienteering day with LPO 5 on the 31st May.....It was at this point that it dawned on me that we STILL have so much to do between now and the end of the year! So here is a list of the things (so far planned) to come;

• (week 20) 17 & 18 of May, the school is closed
• (week 21) Transition Day; Between 9.30-11.30 all of year five will go up and visit MYP 6 so that the students get a feel for the other school and meet the year 6 teachers.
• (week 22) Orienteering; on the 31 May PYP and LPO 5 will be teaming up in Slottsskogen for a day of orienteering and fun.
• (week 23) 8 June; PYP 5 will be having a Science Fair to show off our projects from our latest Inquiry unit. All are welcome!
• (week24) Last day performance by year 5 at the last day of school assembly on 15 June.

Week 19 in review:

Year 5 had a HUGE week last week. On Monday we won all of our three games at the football tournament, this qualified us for the 'gold finals' on the Friday. Then on Thursday we spent most of the day rehearsing for the spring show. We were all back in the afternoon to sell drinks and cakes to audience. Then after a quick fire three weeks of training for our play it was our turn to perform . Even with all the stress of stage fright, forgotten lines, broken  props and lost scripts everyone had a good time and performed very well.

On Friday we all meet at Heden extra early for our first game of the gold finals. In the first game, the other school had a bit of luck to score two goals to our one after we had the ball most of the game. We ended up losing the last two games to some very good teams. To our credit we played hard and fair and only let in a few goals. Everyone looked tired from a long week and from a late night on Thursday but I think they finished on Friday feeling happy that they all had tried their best and had fun in the process.    

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Spring show

Almost there

Climbing

Last Friday we had such a great day climbing we could of stayed other few hours. A big thank you to Caroline's dad for taking a day off work to help us out and to our instructor John for all his help.

Magic of the Movies-Hero's and Villains Go Then Burg (1)

Work on the spring show in full swing

Homework week 17

Here is the homework for the week, all homeworl is due on Thursday.

• POI: find some examples of levers and pulleys in you home. write/draw/photograph them to hand in. (if you having trouble trying to figure what household levers and pulleys look like sheck out the books at the front of the classroom)
• MATHS: Continue with your Geomtry dictionary book that you made in class. Make sure you have at least trasfered all the defintions from you maths book by Thursday
• WRITING: write and perform a one person, one scene play. The script should be written down neatly with added stage directions
• READING: reading journal and Raz-kids

New POI started today

We kicked off our new Inquiry today with working out how to lift a heavy bucket without using our hands.

The basics of a circle

Romeo & Juliet part 2 & 3

LUNCH MENU FROM WEEK 16 - 24

I got this for the first time the other day and thought that you all might want to know what is for lunch this week! MATSEDEL VÅREN 2012 . v. 16-24

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EXHIBITION TIME!

Invitation 2012[1]

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Movie Making

A storyboard from a Western TV show

At the moment we are working on making our movies for our Exhibition groups. A few groups are having some trouble with how to develop their stories and scripts. Make sure you write out a script or a story in full, then develop and draw the back grounds and characters. Finally your group needs to make a storyboard (there are copies at the front of the classroom) so everyone knows what is happening and what will happen next. Click on the above photo to go to a good explanation on how to make storyboards. 

http://www.schoolsworld.tv/node/1659 

Above you will find a short movie by the British director Phil Traill. After you have watched the movie click on the link below and you will see how Phil put the movie together. they are both very short movies but you should learn alot about how to make your movie. 

Some Reminder Dates!

Here are some dates that you can't forget:

Wednesday 21st March: Developmental talks, Portfolio up-to-date ready for talks (no school)

Friday 30th March: Maths Assessment due (all work handed up in a folder)

Wednesday 4th April: Exhibition evening (more information about the nigh to come, but it will start around 18.00)
Thursday 5th April: Exhibition day for whole school to visit (8.30-13.00). Last day of school before Easter break
Tuesday 10th April: Easter break over, back to school


In other news...
Exhibition work is continuing this week, businesses should be up and running, people should be out selling and advertising posters and flyers should be finished.


Start dusting of your Henry V costume and practicing your Shakespearean English because soon we will be starting plays and play writing.

week in review

This week all of year 5 have been diving deep into their Exhibition projects. We have all been working hard to (hopefully) get each of our business up and running by the start of next week. The cakes group are starting to get big orders in  and have just filled a large order of 70 cupcakes this Thursday. Groups this week had to go down to Marilyn with their written business  proposal and apply for a 200:- loan from the International Bank of ISGR. Those who where able to explain the what, why and how of their business during their presentation and in their written proposal managed to get their loans no problem, some had to come back with some more information. A few groups have found that their start-up costs are going to be more than the 200:- they borrowed and they wondered if they could take 'donations' from their parents. If you find that your child or their group starts to ask for more start-up money or supplies, please don't just 'donate' it to them, instead make a deal for them to pay you back when they start to make money. This way they are learning and practicing economics and are learning how to control their own economy.

In other news, students are starting to finish the first of their maths assessment activities. Even though we have put aside our maths lessons to do this they still need to be working on them during their homework time if they are to be finished by the 30th of March.
 

Weight and Mass, What's the difference?

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A= ? P= ?

Here is a video from Khanacademy that explains area and perimeter. I have to thank Marcus for showing me Khanacademy, it's a great site to learn and practice Maths and to have some fun at the same time!

Reading Week

Today we had an author visit from Kurt Lightner. Kurt is an American illustrator living in Göteborg. Kert told us about how an illustrator works with an author and how illustrations develop from an idea and a quick sketch to a detailed drawing.

If you would like to know more about Kurt and his work as an artist and illustrator you can visit his website http://kurtlightner.net/index.htm

Maths Assessment - Matrix

Measure Edit: The due date says the 23rd of March, this has been moved to the 30th of March.

Maths Assessment - Rubric

Performance Criteria

Homework Wk. 10

Up until April 4th we will be working on the Exhibition and the students will have to invest a large amount of their spare time developing, researching and running their new business with their group mates. During this time (up until the 30th March) they will also be working on their Maths assessment (see above post). The quality of their finished assessment should reflect four weeks of work during maths time in school as well as the time normally reserved for maths homework.

Spelling sheet (Thursdays), reading journal (Friday), and Raz kids (Friday) will be due as normal.

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Sports Club Notice

If you haven't already, it's now time to register your child for Lilla Göteborgsvarvet that takes place on Sunday the 13th of May in Slottsskogen. The last date to register is on the 31st of March. You can register and find all the info you might need on www.goteborgsvarvet.se. To get a chance to get an ISGR shirt to run in, please send an email topeter.sjoberg@isgr.se when you have registered."

 

Thanks,

Peter

Introduction to Measurement

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As I keep on running out of time this week I though that I'll just show you a bit of what we did last week. Here we are playing a Grammar game with Colby our student teacher for Texas.

Homework week 8

Due Thursday

• Spelling sheet
• Reading group home work: answer the questions from the reading group sheet in your reading group exercise book, you will also need to take home your reading book. You will share your homework with your group on Thursday morning
• Maths: bring in an item that you use to measure with (thermometer, measuring cup, etc) or something that has a measurement on it (coke bottle, empty box of corn flakes, etc).

Due Friday

• Raz kids
• Reading Journal  

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Homework week 6

Due Thursday

• Story bird book assessment
• Spelling

Due Friday

• Chapter story
• Maths project
• Raz kids
• Reading journal

LPO 5 is having a cookie sale on Friday and they have asked students who want to buy cookies to spend no more than 20:- Our time to buy cookies will be between 12.10 - 12.20

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WEEK 5 EVENTS

THE EVENTS OF WEEK FIVE:

 MONDAY-TUESDAY
Inspectors came to our school to look around and, kinda obviously, inspect!
ONLY ON TUESDAY
In P.E we did volley ball. It was Peter's version of volley ball.(DON'T FORGET LIBRARY!) After school dance and basketball was canceled.

WEDNESDAY
In music we listened to a piece of Joel's favorite french childhood music. We also listened to Justin Beiber and then arose a conversation about how awful his songs are. In P.E we did badminton and it made a few people feel like opening a badminton club in March.
Otherwise nothing worth mentioning happened on this day.

THURSDAY
ICE SKATING!!! We had an awesome (!!!) time skating at Ruddelen. (We includes: KD, KE, 1D, 1E, 2D, 2E, 3D, 3E, 4D, 4E, 5D and 5E. (Posibly LPO's as well as PYP's) Ice skating was fun because we could do free skating with a choice of two rinks. Also we enjoyed it greatly for we got to be outside all day without having to do school work of any kind (For example: MATHS!!!)

FRIDAY!!!
In computer we worked on our POI stories on story bird. These are due on Thursday week six. SCHOOLS OUT 4 THE WEEKEND!!!!!!!

SINCERELY  YOURS,

Jade Kiiskinen and Sophie Belfield.

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I've got my helmet! But have you seen my teeth?

As you all know this Thursday we will be going ice skating. We will need to leave at around 8.30 and we will be back around 14.00. Things that you need to bring are;

• Tram card
• a LARGE snack
• a LARGE lunch
• a bottle of water
• If you have not requested and paid for them, don't forget your SKATES and HELMET
• warm clothes
• ski or waterproof pants
• extra socks (you never know when you need them!)
• band-aids/plaster if you are renting skates or haven't used yours for a long time
• something warm to drink

The forcast said that it will be COLD this Thursday and we will be outside the whole time.

Homework Week 5

Continue with you POI project. You should of written your whole story and now working on editing it and your layout of your book. Remember to continue to refer to your Inquiry project outline. (if you have lost yours you can find another one hanging on the whiteboard)
Due Thursday

• Maths: make a graph (line, bar or circle) of anything. Make sure you have your titles, heading, scale, and that you use a ruler.
• Maths: page 28 Maths Practice Book
• Spelling sheet

Due Friday

• Finish editing your chapter story
• Reading Journal
• Raz Kids

Connecting Form & Function to the Exhibition

"It's ok, I want to be a chair"

At the Röhssska museum last week we saw a chair made of cardboard called the Wiggle chair by Frank Gehry. The chair made me think about how people can be economically and environmentally responsible by re-using boxes to fit peoples needs and how this fits into our up-coming Exhibition. Some quick thoughts on the subject; cardboard normally thrown out or recycled (using energy), it's free!, people in second and third world countries have ready access to it, extremely strong, can be cut into any form, is 100% recyclable.

Here is a website that I found if you would like to learn more.

http://www.cardboardonline.com/discover-the-ins-and-outs-of-cardboard-packing-boxes/  

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Homework Week 4

Due Wednesday

• Study for the 1/2 year maths test

Due Thursday

• Spelling sheet

Due Friday

• Raz kids
• Reading Journal
• Finish writing the first draft of your chapter story
• Picture of something that is just form or function 

Due Feb 9th

• Your children's book for POI. Don't forget to follow your assignment outline!

Notice!

• Trip to Röhsska museum this Thursday we will leave school at 12.50 and be back around 14.40
• Ice skating on the 2nd of Feb. bring in your forms if you need skates and/or helmet

Poetry photos

Over the last two weeks we have been discovering our new Inquiry unit and the central idea 'Our appreciation of things depends on their form and function'

   

In class we have made a wall of pictures of objects that have great form and function. Last Friday we started our Inquiry project for this unit. We will be making books for young children that balance function (what is the story teaching children) and form (the layout, how the book looks, visually attractive to children). You can check out the website that we are using to make our books here.


Over the next three weeks we will be having a form and function fashion fiesta! Each Thursday up until the Sports break (week 7) we will have a themed shirt (or whole outfit if students want) day. This week we will have function clothing or as we named it today 'bad shirt day' so get your child to dig out the ugliest (but most comfortable) shirt they can find at home and wear it with pride this Thursday. We will be having a catwalk competition to find the most 'functional' shirt! Next week will be form or 'fashion victim day' and the last week will be form and function,  'best dressed day'.

In Art the class has looked some of the greatest designers of our time. Joe found a wonderful website for the kids to explore, This is a great website and one of the best that I have seen. You can check it out by clicking on the photos at the top of this post. They have also started to think of and design objects that they feel are needed but haven't been invented yet that have both form and function. So of the examples that Joe has shown me have been a bunk-bed that is inside a monsters mouth and a mug that heats or cools water and has an ergonomic shape for your hand.

Last week we had our fractions test which produced some very good and interesting results, these have been marked, photocopied and given back today. If you want to see your child's test and they have 'lost' it, please tell me as I can always photocopy it again. This week we will be concentrating on studying for our 1/2 year maths test. Since late last week we have been all working hard in our books and with a mountain of photocopies that I have printed out in preparation.   

1/2 year Maths Assessment

Because we have spent more time than that was planned on our fraction assessment the 1/2 year Maths assessment will be moved to next Wednesday (25.01.12). This is so the students will have more time to review and study.

Authors Chair

Authors chair

The Lost Island Of Tamarind

By Nadia Aguiar

Three children--Maya(13) Simon(9) and Penny(0½) Nelson-- travel with their mother and father who are scientists and are part of The Red Coral Project. The Red Coral Project is a project to find a substance called Othella. They cross The Blue Line--it splits the Outside world to Tamarind (I'll get to that part later). The blue line was really stormy and then there was a loud BANG. The kids parents went outside to see what the problem was. Maya counted the footsteps. 1..2...3...4..5...6...7...8...9...10..Maya counted some more. Then nothing. The children waited until the storm was over and Maya went outside to see what the problem was.....Their parents had disappeared. When they woke up, they found out that they had reached Tamarind--where the Othella is.

That was the bit where the kids parents disappeared.
Tamarind is a wild island that has been lost over the many years. It is close to the country Bermuda, where the Nelson family is originally found. On the Island, they meet a boy named Helix and his parrot Seagrape.
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I recommend this book to anyone who likes the sound of adventures. There is a second book to this called The Secrets of Tamarind, but I haven’t read it yet.
I rate this book 10/10, because it is really cool and the children come to too many close calls.
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