We have come to the end of our unit of inquiry and the students are busy working in groups producing their media campaigns.
For the 'How we express ourselves'unit the summative assessment is to produce a print advertisement (poster or brochure), a radio advertisement and a television advertisement.
Tomorrow is the due date and I am looking forward to sharing some the the completed products next week.
Here is Billy, Hong Suk and Ashley working on their products.
Hi everyone
As part of the oral language program in Grade 5S this year we are using Vocaroo to recite our weekly poems. Being an International School we have a large variety of accents within the classroom as well as large numbers of 'English as second language' students.
An important time for us in Grade 5 is the Exhibition in April and to build up the skills we need for this we are using our poems which we present in class on Fridays.
Please listen to some of our early examples.
Fantastic work from Rikumu who arrived only weeks ago with not a single word of English.
Hi everyone
The first quarter is finished and with Teacher interviews this week I look forward to meeting with all the parents to discuss your child's progress. We have been very busy lately with ISA testing, school photos, end of the Immigration unit of inquiry, reports of course, and all the normal daily lessons with math and language. Our present Unit 'How we express ourselves has been going very well and the students have been looking in depth at the world of advertising. We have had some fun analysing different TV ads and disecting them using 5 questions.
1. Who is the message for?
2. Who made the message and why?
3. What is left out of the message?
4. How might others view this message differently?
5. How does the advert get my attention and keep it?
In a couple of weeks we will start the summative assignment for this unit which is a media campaign involving a radio ad, a poster or pamphlet, and a TV ad. We look forward to sharing this with you.
Another couple of things we have introduced are Studyladder and a vocaroo site. Both these have links on the Blog. (look down the right hand side to access our links).
Her is a sample of our vocaroo which we will use with our Poem of the week.
We all had a fantastic time at SEW week and many thanks to MR Raines for his hard work again this year.
Time was spent in Chapel each morning and then on a variety of activities including; outside games, talking to missionaries in the field via skype, to having group time to discuss the message and create some representations of our theme 'DO'. This year is about taking action in the world. The afternoons were taken up by teacher run activities and lots of bonding and fellowship time with family groups.
Here are just a couple of pictures and movie clips.
