Immigration slideshows

Here are the slideshows I promised to share. To see the other students please go onto their e-portfolios.









Here are the slideshows I promised to share. To see the other students please go onto their e-portfolios.

Time to share with you

Well it has certainly been a busy time over the last 3 weeks with establishing all our new routines and getting to know and connect with all the new members of Grade 5S. With some of the start of the year assessment behind us, the last week has been a time to start finding out more about immigration which is the topic for our first unit of inquiry.
Our Central Idea is: Throughout history human migration has impacted our world.
we are using 3 lines of inquiry to investigate this and they are,
1. The reasons why people immigrate.
2. The struggles and successes of immigrants.
3. The impact of immigration on people, communities and the immigrants.
Being an international school we all have our own personal stories and experiences of moving and living in different countries. I am looking forward to hearing and reading some of my students stories and will share them with you.
This week we looked at immigration in the USA and took particular care to study this in relation to our lines of inquiry.
I have shared a few of the keynote presentations (sorry I tried to share them but they won't upload. I will have to get some clever person to help me) but if you want to see your child's please go onto their e-portfolio.
p.s. it was great to see so many of you at Open Night on Thursday evening.  Mike

Our Buddy Class

This year we are spending time working with Mrs Mun's Grade1 class. Reading, writing, art and inquiry are some of the areas we will collaborate on and this will benefit not just the Grade1 students but also us in Grade 5.  In writing for example, having to get the Grade 1's to think about improving their writing will help us think critically about what makes a good story and how we can transpose that to our own writing this year.
For the first visit we spent some time getting to know our buddies and then we completed a 'Wanted' poster together. It was a fun way to break the ice.

First week of school

The first week is almost here and we have been busy getting to know each other and working out our routines and expectations. We have 5 students new to GSIS and have loved finding out a little about them but just focusing on building those good relationships within the class. As with the start of every year we have some assessment to do and we will be ticking away at that over the next three weeks.

Our unit for the next six weeks is 'Who we are in place and time' and our focus will be around the issues of migration, impacts and problems immigrants face and cause to the communities they move into. This quarter we will have swimming for PE but that will not start for a couple of weeks. It seems a great  time to swim with all this hot weather.