Lit Circle!

One thing that I love about teaching grade five is having lit (literature) circles. What are they? Students form groups with other students who want to read the same book. The group gets together and discuss what they read.

It was so NICE to listen to them share their thoughts on the novel.

 

The Hatchet Group

 



 

The Millions Group

 

The Frindle Group

When the book was completed, they had to create a project on a key area of the book: theme, plot, character, and so on. We had newspapers, a spin-wheel, CDs, maps, a sociogram, and a graphic novel.

 

 

Some interesting projects, for sure!

 

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Organizing and Searching...

When the grade fives received their exhibition binders they were given the task of organizing them. It was quite a job! Afterwards, their mentors helped them if any improvements were necessary.

Once keywords were formed and books were found, the reading process begins.

Here are some pictures of the grade fives organizing their work and reading their books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great week!

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Busy, busy, busy!

Life has been pretty busy here in the grade five classroom. The exhibition started last Monday and each day the students have been working hard to learn about their topic.

We are learning how to research and how to organize our materials. Currently the students are on phase three: Locate and Access. This means that they have found numerous books on their topics and are determining what sections or parts are relevant for their topic. They are creating a glossary and a bibliography as well.

The topics:

Endangered Ecosystems: Shane, Itai, and Sofie

Children`s Rights: Rintaro, Elsie-Maie, and Alexandru

Air Pollution: Jude and Jordan

Lack of Water: Divyanshu and Joel

Global Warming: Lars and Aliisa

Theme: How we share the planet

The exhibition is a valuable, learning process that will benefit the sudents for years to come. Not only will they learn about a new topic, but they will become more globally aware AND understand how to plan (and carry out) a major project.

Wow!

Parents, ask your child questions about their topic (in your native language or English!). Have them explain their key terms and discuss their plan for the coming week(s).

Suggestions, comments, and questions are always welcome!

 

Have a nice day

:)

 

Swiss Museum of Transport

This Friday, February 1st, the grade 5 students will be making a special trip to the Swiss Museum of Transport. It is very exciting because this museum offers a lot of fantastic learning experiences that are fun for children.

If you would like to see what they have to offer, check out their website by clicking here.

Note: our train tickets have a SLIGHTLY different time of arrival than initially planned. We will arrive at Oberwinterthur at 16 23 and will be at ISW approximately 16 30.

Visit the blog next week for pictures of our trip.

 

Have a nice week.

:)

 

Space missions.

If you were to plan a mission to go to space to help humankind, what would you do?

 
The grade 7s had to design a mission, and then they presented their ideas to the grade 5s. Everybody had to listen carefully, think about what they designed, and come up with questions about each mission.

I was impressed as most students in grade 5 asked very insightful questions.

Afterward, the grade 7s paired up the grade 5 students to teach them how to make a power point presentation. It is always nice to see students teaching students.

 
Thank you grade 7s!

 
Here are some pictures of each presentation.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great week.

:)

 

 

 

A to Z...

The new unit for this year is all about transportation systems that exist during the modern era.

To get the students engaged and enthusiastic about this topic, they had the task of building a mode of transport out of materials found in the classroom.


Here they are working away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The finished products...

 

 

Getting ready for take off!

 

 

 Even desks like to ski!

 

 

 

A great colour for a great car.

 

 

A car that`s too fast for you.

 

 

 You cannot go snowboarding without this!

 

 

 A jet pack of the future.

 

 

 

A must for exploring space...

 

 

 A skateboard.

 

 

 A submarine.

 

 

Everybody loves going for a ride in a limousine. 

 

Schoolwide opinion survey

You will by now have received an e-mail asking you to spare a few minutes to complete a survey.

 

Please, please, please do it!

 

Your feedback, together with that of the staff, the board members and the students will help us to evaluate our performance as a school and from that we will be able to identify where change/improvement is needed.

 

Here are the basic instructions, the link to the survey and the code you need.

Please complete the survey for each child individually, to enable us to get detailed feedback. Indicate the Number of Children in the School as 1 and disregard the other choices.


Click Here

Enter the following survey code: CNP329310 and click GO

Ignore the last three questions 57-59.


When you reach the last screen, click SUBMIT.

THANK YOU!

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