Becoming familiar with Newton

Hi everyone
In the last few days we have done some study and experiments looking at Newtons Laws of Motion. This will help us as we head toward the Egg Drop Challenge and then next week onto the students own experiments for the summative assignment.
We have had some fun and on Friday the students performed some improptu drama's demonstrating the laws.
Here are a few for you to look at.
Mike

Eugene, Hong Suk and Dong Hee

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Dana, Erin and Yerine

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Tivan, Michael and Kane

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Ashley, Gina and Brendan

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Science at last

Hi everyone
The students are very excited that we have started our Inquiry unit about the Scientific Method. As part of this we are undertaking a lot of practical hand on experiments, practicing each step of the process to become really familiar with it.
This week has been about experimenting with water rockets. The students built some understanding around pressure and the properties of air and water.
The fun part of course was building and testing of the rockets. Some students wanted to find out if putting different amounts of water in the rocket would effect how high it would fly and others concentrated on whether more air pressure was better.
Mixed results were obtained and the students were given the opportunity to modify and try again.

Here are some of our photos;

Grade 5 television advertisements

We have finished our advertising unit of inquiry and as promised here they are for you to see.

The first one is produced by Ashley, Eugene and Gina

Our Ping Pong Advertisment from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Hong Suk, Dong Hee and Erica produced an advert about animal cruelty

HDE dog movie from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Billy, Hidemasa, Dana and Tatiana star in a funny movie about exercising your pets.

PN H,D,B,T from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Kane and Michael try to convince you to get better outside toys and equipment in the school yard.

MK toys movie from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Rikumu, Souta and Brendan want better tasting juice in the cafeteria.

BSR lemonade from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Our media campaigns

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.

Oral language

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.


Voice Recorder >>
Kane


Online recording software >>
Gina


Voice Recorder >>
Rikumu


Record music and voice >>
Tatiana


Voice Recorder >>
Dong Hee

End of first quarter

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.


Record music with Vocaroo >>

Highlights of SEW 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.

SDC10567 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

SDC10545 from mike stanley on Vimeo.