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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A Special Visit...

We are very blessed here at ISW. Why? Well, the one and only, Saint Nick took time out of his busy schedule to come visit us!

Before he came to the grade five classroom the students were on pins and needles...anxiously awaiting his arrival.

Saint Nick gave the class some great advice about joining the MYPs next year, and gave each one of us a goody bag.

Like I said, we are very blessed.

Enjoy the pictures below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you Santa!

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We heart libraries.

Libraries are amazing!

Libraries have lots of books!!

Libraries are for everybody!!!

The grade fives just had the opportunity to explore the library in Winterthur. I am sure many of them will be back there again soon.

One of the greatest gifts in life is a good book. So curl up with a fantastic read, especially on those cold winter day.

Here is a picture of the grade fives in front of the library (smaller number due to illness).

 

Happy reading.

:)

 

 

Energy comes from....Where?

We need energy. So humans have been getting our energy needs met in many different ways.  Our energy sources are either renewable or non-renewable, and are some are very different from the others.

To get ourselves thinking, the grade fives came up with riddles about various energy sources.

Some were quite difficult; we were really stumped!

Below there are pictures of the riddles. The first picture will be the clues, and the next picture is a drawing (or diagram) of the answer. Can you guess what energy source it is???  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you had fun guessing! (And learning)

 

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