Grade 5 Newsletter
September 2013
PYP News!
UNIT 1 Who We Are An inquiry into rights and responsibilities and what it means to be human Central Idea Children’s rights and responsibilities are connected to each other and are met in different ways. Lines of Inquiry Children’s rights and responsibilities around the world Connection between rights and responsibilities How children’s rights are met Summative Task:
Welcome to a new school year at HIS. We hope you like the new school logo. Above is the latest PYP model. As you can see the innermost circle brings together the beliefs and values of the programme. The PYP culminates in the Exhibition, where Grade 5 students this year will inquire into How we organise ourselves. Lisa Hughes
THE ARTS In this unit Grade 5 students will embark on a musical journey on which they will discover new musical elements and concepts. Through singing, playing, reading, listening and moving the students will inquire into the music of various cultures, styles and genres and they will acquire skills that will help them understand the language of music and express themselves through it.
Ms Sabina
VIETNAMESE Students learn about children’s rights and responsibilities in Vietnam and compare with those in other countries.
Ms Trang and Ms Lan Anh
Unit 1
Students will work on a photo essay to highlight the most important rights for them and give reasons why, how they are connected to responsibilities and how these rights are met across the world. Students will present their writing orally to the class using visual presentations with examples of case studies from children around the world. Tool: Teacher rubric (Please see unit of inquiry books for the rubric.)
LANGUAGES Students will continue with their weekly reading programme and inquire into the skills and strategies needed for reading and how we become competent, motivated, independent readers. Students will also begin to compare and make connections to novels. Miss Lisa The Writing Process has seven steps prewriting, drafting, editing, peerconference, revising, teacher conference and publishing. This year, students are working towards using this process with increasing independence in order to improve the quality of their writing and increase their understanding of how processes help us organise ourselves. We are also increasing our knowledge of various writing genre. For unit 1 the students will write a persuasive email to a person of their choice. Mr Warren ELS Level 1 students are developing vocabulary used at school, in the classroom and socially in order to ask and answer questions and to develop the skills to write simple sentences. Ms Linda The ELS students will be supported in the inquiry into skills and strategies needed to read for meaning. In writing they will work through the writing process, aiming to become confident writers with the skills and techniques needed to edit their own work. Ms Sue
MATHS For numeracy, students are inquiring into what the for operations are and how they are connected with each other. We will look at solving problems using more than one operation, and using estimation skills to check our work. Mr Warren